Prepare for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems at MTU. When software lives inside machines, failure isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a safety, reliability, and security risk. From vehicles and aircraft to ...

I have already mentioned the biggest difference between writing a program for a desktop computer and for a small microcontroller: the absence of an operating system (in most cases). The impact of this ...

Embedded systems design and development can sometimes seem worlds apart from traditional application development on general computing devices and maybe even more so from Web development on the server ...

In conjunction with embedded world 2026, the Eclipse Foundation will release the 2025 IoT and Embedded Developer Survey ...

Successfully developing and launching an embedded system requires a wide range of skills in a variety of engineering disciplines. Every embedded systems development team needs knowledge in eight ...

Another technique common to both embeddedprocessor performance optimization and embedded processor poweroptimization is software pipelining. Software pipelining is a techniquewhere the programmer ...

What are the main issues behind the “painful” process of embedded-systems design? Shortages of resources, components, and talent plague the design process. How the instability of toolsets and driver ...

At the start of the year, I highlighted key trends in 5 Embedded Software Trends to Watch in 2024, predicting the forces shaping the industry. As the year unfolded, many of these trends indeed drove ...

This article first appeared in Builder AU Magazine. Writing software designed to be embedded in an appliance, phone, or some other real-world device is a growth area, but has its own set of challenges ...

When I first started to develop embedded software more than 15 years ago, embedded software engineers had a very specific skillset. They were often electrical engineers who not only understood how the ...