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March 31, 2011

When I say “football,” what comes to mind? American football? For most of the world, it refers to association football also known as soccer.

February 28, 2011

Why are companies risking the success of their products—or even the companies themselves—to an afterthought?

January 31, 2011

Because of America’s predominant role in worldwide hi-tech industries, English is the de facto language for embedded systems developers.

December 31, 2010

Something as seemingly innocuous as moving bits around in a register can have a serious impact on firmware.

November 5, 2010

But what about software and firmware engineers? Those bits don’t pollute the environment. So how can they be green in their designs?

March 31, 2010

How many of us are guilty of writing firmware and then getting it to work without thorough testing? Or do we plan ahead?

February 27, 2010

By having the device driver return the settings that it used in the hardware, the test harness could verify proper operation.

January 30, 2010

Dangers of read-modify-write operations on registers create exposure to collision and corruptions by firmware.

December 31, 2009

CPU commands can be used to assist firmware read-modify-write operations, but such solutions are not without their own dangers.

November 30, 2009

Having multiple device drivers accessing the same register for read-modify-write operations can be dangerous.