Over the past 10 years, I've changed jobs...]]> Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:13:38 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1369.php Full disclosure: I was given a free copy of this book for evaluation.

Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers: Building real-time embedded systems using FreeRTOS, STM32 MCUs, and SEGGER debug tools by Brian Amos is an outstanding book. It lives up to its name, extremely hands-on and practical, taking you from knowing nothing about RTOS's (Real-Time Operating Systems) up to building real...]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:43:08 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1362.php Software development projects are notorious for having problems. Late, over budget, not working properly, making people's lives miserable all around. Embedded systems add the further complication of hardware to that.

How many of us have lived through problematic projects? Hopefully some of them have at least been ultimately successful to make all the suffering worth it in the...]]> Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:53:49 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1332.php

One fallout they're experiencing from COVID19 is cancellation of summer internships. This is very unfortunate, because an internship represents maintaining educational momentum and preparing...]]> Mon, 04 May 2020 01:02:52 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1346.php Text log data offers a wealth of information from an embedded system. At least during prototyping and development phases, most systems have some kind of serial log output, or use semihosting methods to log to a serial output channel in a debugger. Then you can capture the logs to a file.

The problem is that they tend to accumulate large volumes of data. Logs can be many thousands of lines...]]> Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:02:15 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1340.php The other day I posted a short video of my WFH setup (and here's a May 1st upgrade). Today I have some general advice for WFH for people who are new to it.

I've been doing it randomly for the past 5 years, usually just one or two days a week here and there. Now it's a full-time thing for the duration of the coronavirus. So some of this wanders afield a bit, settling in for the...]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:49:40 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1330.php Well, maybe not so much for profit, but certainly for fun. This is a wandering journey of exploration and discovery, learning a variety of interesting and useful things.

One of the concerns with an embedded system is how much memory it needs, known as the memory footprint. This consists of the persistent storage needed for the program (i.e. the flash memory or filesystem space that stores...]]> Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:28:40 +0000 Steve Branam https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1324.php