Last week I went to Nuremberg [or Nürnberg if you prefer] to attend Embedded World 2010. I have been to…
The term “real time” is widely used nowadays. Although it is a technical term, it finds its way into quite…
The idea of inlining code – placing the actual code of a small function at each call site – is…
There is a lot of buzz about Android at the moment. Indeed, I have written about it here, as has…
The computer world is often accused of being mired in jargon and I think that is a fair criticism. In…
What is the key objective when you write some code? The obvious answer is that you want to impart some…
There are two aspects of any product that give me great pleasure: good design and quality of manufacture. This applies…
I am always delighted when I get responses or feedback resulting from postings here. About a month ago, I wrote…
Life is often about compromise, but embedded developers really are not good at that. Code generation is a context in…