Freed from the typical difficult and arcane embedded-development tools, users of the Debian GNU/Linux can more efficiently develop applications directly on their embedded systems using native GNU ...

According to IEEE 1471, “A software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationship to each other and the environment, and the principles ...

A number of suppliers of embedded software development tools have recently announced that they are “supporting” or even “embracing” embedded Linux. Having been there and done that, I have some news ...

The burgeoning workloads of embedded systems development teams means reuse of software code, hardware and hardware IP is increasingly the norm, and the use of development boards in embedded design is ...

IAR YellowSuite for ColdFire microcontrollers from IAR Systems promotes a natural design flow from the beginning of a development project, integrating all the necessary tools to produce a working ...

Pervasive networking permeates this week's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, Calif., as revealed by technical presentations and exhibited products touting advances in many networking ...

The appeal of embedded systems is clear. A high degree of configurability, readily available commercial intellectual property (IP), and the use of well-understood and accepted protocols and bus ...