Embedded systems can contain many different types of devices including microcontrollers, microprocessors, DSPs, RAM, EPROMs, FPGAs, A/Ds, and D/As. These various devices must communicate with each ...

Often I hear developers talking about how they don’t understand system administrators and why they are so primitive when it comes to finding and fixing problems. What most developers do not understand ...

All software has bugs. This is a fact that anyone who has been in the software development business knows. It would be incredibly cost prohibitive to try and root out every minor defect in an ...

Planet Analog Editor's note: I am very pleased to present two chapters of this book by David J. Agans, with the permission of the publisher, the American Management Association. Let's be honest and ...

Researchers said today they have developed a chip-debugging program that promises to reduce silicon problem resolution from days to hours while saving potentially millions of dollars. The technology, ...

The Debug.log file can record database operations, system processes, and errors that occur when executing a transaction or running unit tests. In today’s post, we describe how to turn on debug logging ...