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Embedded Frontier Podcast

February 14, 2025
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 |  General

I had the privilege to be on Jacob Beningo’s Embedded Frontier Podcast this week. The topic was my latest book […]

Trying to understand the value add of Test Driven Development (TDD)

January 12, 2025
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 |  EPC, General, Never Trust the Software Guys

I will preface the conversation by stating that I am not a practitioner, nor have I attempted to practice TDD […]

How do you use threads?

December 9, 2024
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 |  General

I was reading an article a few weeks ago about thread pools in embedded software.  That got me thinking.  While […]

The Perils of Dynamic Memory in Embedded Systems

November 3, 2024
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 |  Colony.*, General

First start let’s start with a definition. In this context – dynamic memory means acquiring and releasing memory at run […]

Data Model: Aren’t Global Variables Bad?

February 25, 2024
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 |  Data Model, General, PIM

The Data Model architecture pattern consists of all the model point instances in the application, and it is the canonical […]

This is what happens when a Software guy tries to be hardware engineer

January 21, 2024
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 |  General, PIM

I love my job as an embedded software engineer. However, I am a Compute Science guy by education so when […]

Software Architecture – Just Do It

April 25, 2023
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 |  General

Like so many terms in the software world, the terms “software architecture” and “software detailed design” do not have canonical […]

Documentation, its a Good Thing

April 7, 2023
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 |  General

In general, software developers don’t like generating documentation. This dislike was codified in the Agile Manifesto which prefers “Working software […]

Mutexes can’t live with them, can’t do without them

March 16, 2023
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 |  General, PIM

This post is about my love-hate relationship with mutexes and my approach to managing the evils of mutexes. First we […]

Breaking Dependencies Using Binding Times

February 3, 2023
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 |  General, PIM

This is an introduction of how to leverage different binding times for designing decouple code. What is binding time? Here […]

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