After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

Over the last few years, the electronics industry has seen a varied range of exotic new multicore processor architectures, 54 at our last count. While many of the inventors of these fascinating ...

You probably hold with the conventional view that the Java language cannot be used for embedded programming. According to this view, implementations of the Java language are (1) too slow, (2) too big, ...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiKey, the global distribution leader of electronic components and automation products, is hosting a webinar with Microchip, "Programming ...

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Mention embedded programming and most will automatically think of C. But while it’s still the dominant language for the space, these days C has lots of company. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of ...

When you think about bare-metal programming, you probably envision an electrical engineer sitting at a workbench, pouring through hundreds of pages of low-level register definitions. Once the correct ...

Software frameworks can provide a better starting point for developing multicore applications and thus help to reduce the development time. This article demonstrates frameworks for embedded-multimedia ...

1. The Trenton Computer Festival started in 1976 and is still going. The latest TCF is coming up this March 23. It has changed a bit since its heyday, when the swap meet was massive and lasted ...