Through most of the past 20 years that I have been involved in embedded systems design there has been a tension between C-language and C++ programmers. In non-embedded applications on the Web and in ...

Embedded Programming A study of embedded programming using low-level programming languages. The course covers the hardware architecture of an embedded system and the techniques needed to write ...

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What is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and what does “real-time” mean anyway? What are the various kinds of state machines, and how to code them efficiently in C? What is object-oriented ...

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C remains the darling of embedded programmers, but C++ garners a sizable chunk. Using C++ features judiciously can result in code that’s as efficient or more efficient than a comparable C application.

Our recent Embedded Revolution survey reinforced the view of C and C++ dominance with embedded programmers (see figure), but the results also highlight the differences between the embedded space and ...