BARR-C:2018 is fully harmonized with MISRA C:2012. Many firmware developers choose to combine bug-killing stylistic rules from the BARR-C standard with safety guidelines from MISRA C. BARR-C:2018 is ...

Editor’s Note: In an excerpt from their book Embedded System Security, the authors assess the role of C and C++ coding standards and how compliance leads to more secure code. Most safety and quality ...

Building safe and secure embedded systems is getting harder as firmware grows in scale, complexity, and connectivity. Even with sophisticated safeguards, such as microprocessor (MPU) regioning, ...

The annual Embedded World conference brings together thousands of vendors and customers to see and discuss the latest developments in the embedded electronics supply chain. Embedded World is a global ...

The modernization of programming languages and the importance of better coding techniques is directly related to the evolution from mechanical computers to modern software-development processes. We ...

Application size and complexity has compounded significantly over the last decade. Take the automotive sector as an example. According to The New York Times, 20 years ago, the average car had a ...

There's an interrupt service routine invoked when the 16 bithardware timer overflows. The ISR services the hardware, increments aglobal variable named timer_hi, and returns. Therefore, timer_hi ...

CHANDLER, Ariz., Feb. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microchip Technology (MCHP) is leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist software developers and embedded engineers in writing ...

The very first step in starting an embedded Linux system does not involve Linux at all. Instead, the processor is reset and starts executing code from a given location. This location contains a ...