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 ...

I have written two previous blog posts on movie quotations applied in software development: Classic Movie Quotes Applied to Software Development (referenced in a CNN entertainment article) and More ...

I’ve always regarded debugging and troubleshooting as the most challenging of all hands-on engineering skills. It’s not formally taught; it is usually learned through hands-on experience (often the ...