Embedded Programming

It is said that a person who only has a hammer everything looks like a nail. Having the right tool for the right job is crucial for effectiveness and efficiency in any skilled profession. Embedded system development is no different. That said, until fairly recently, tools aimed at embedded development have lacked the refinement and modern feature sets found in the…

With growing popularity of microcontrollers engineers are using microcontrollers more than FPGAs. The Microcontrollers have become dominant over FPGA because of their cheap cost, good support, easy availability, large community, versatility, programming etc. But other than that microprocessors have some limitations such as the instructions set, sequential execution of…

STMicroelectronics introduced the next-generation STLINK-V3 probe for programming and debugging STM8 and STM32 microcontrollers, adding enhancements to further increase flexibility and efficiency. Now comes with mass-storage support, a virtual COM port with multipath bridge, and three-times faster write performance, the STLINK-V3 saves development…

Communication Interfaces are one of the factors that are considered when selecting a microcontroller to be used for a project. The designer ensures that the microcontroller being selected has all the interfaces required to communicate with all the other components to be used for the product. The existence of some of these interfaces, like SPI and I2C on microcontrollers,…

Keypad interfacing with 8051 microcontroller represents one of the fundamental skills for embedded systems developers. Matrix keypads are an input device found in calculators, security systems, ATMs, and various industrial control panels. Keypads are widely used input devices in various electronics and embedded projects. They are used to take inputs in the form of …