This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

OpenMV embedded vision is the focus of EEI #57 with Kwabena Agyeman: edge pipelines, tooling, and what really ships on MCUs.

Computer-maker Thales has announced the PENTXM line of VMEbus single-board computers (SBCs), which utilize 1.6GHz-and-faster Pentium M processors and offer a low-power-consumption design. The PENTXM ...

Targeting defense and aerospace platforms in which size, weight, and power are critical, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing recently announced the S/DCP3-1201, a 3U CompactPCI single-board ...

In this course, students will design and build a microprocessor-based embedded system project managing real-time constraints while analyzing the system in-order to meet them. Students are expected to ...

Where code meets reality, embedded systems come at that intersection, demanding precision, efficiency, and careful planning.

This course is used as the capstone in a three course sequence, including Linux System Programming and Introduction to Buildroot and Linux Kernel Programming and Introduction to Yocto Project. Both of ...

After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

When you think of an embedded systems class, what do you expect the students to learn? Should they know about single board computers, like the Raspberry Pi or the Beaglebone? Should they know about ...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in the software development process for electronic products is that hardware is not available until late in the cycle. That means embedded software developers need to ...