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 ...

There are some fairly powerful debugging facilities available on today’s microcontrollers — if your code crashes mysteriously, chances are, there’s a debugging interface that could let you track down ...

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

Microchip Technology has introduced the MPLAB PICkit Basic, an affordable and versatile in-circuit debugger designed to simplify programming and debugging for engineers, hobbyists, and students. The ...

Macraigor Systems LLC has added debugging and control support for several new processors: the ARM Cortex-M3 family of CPUs, the Freescale MPC 83xx PowerQUICC II Pro family, the AMD Geode GX/LX ...

Brookline, Mass. Macraigor Systems LLC has extended the reach of its OCDemon family of low-cost debugging tools to include the PowerPC 440 line of processors from Applied Micro Circuits Corp.

Visual Studio provides a rich set of tools for finding bugs, though most developers aren't aware or don't take advantage of all of them. Bugs occur at two stages in a code's life: during development ...

It was one of those weeks last week at Hackaday’s home office. My mother-in-law handed me her favorite power bank and said “it’s not charging”. She had every expectation that I’ll open it up, desolder ...

XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first event-driven 32-bit embedded processor, announces the release of its new XMOS Development Environment (XDE) tool suite with enhanced support for real-time ...

Android Studio offers a rich palette of built-in development tools, and an even more abundant plugin ecosystem. The first three articles in this series focused on installation and setup and coding and ...