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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...