San Jose Hardware design is now about to go through a significant design shift not unlike the change a decade ago from gate level to register transfer level (RTL) HDL design. Companies are realizing ...

C++ covers the whole programming range, from low level to high, making it ideally suited for writing portable software. Code portability is often neglected in embedded-systems engineering, however.

C++11 was where significant changes were made, and it’s one of the more common versions employed in embedded systems. Embedded developers aren’t known to ride the cutting edge when it comes to ...

By John Sanguinetti, CTO, Forte Design Systems Embedded.com (06/01/10, ... The first step, algorithm design, is usually done in C or C++, where the high-level code that describes how the system will ...

MicroEJ's VEE combines C/C++ and Java into a single protected, ... I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems.

Most OO practitioners recognize the value of Design by Contract as a methodology for improving software quality. It is at the heart of the Eiffel language and the Object Constraint Language of UML.

MATLAB is the go-to toolbox for high level algorithm design in many application domains, ranging from signal processing to control systems and data analysis. MATLAB Coder generates executable C/C++ ...

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The design of embedded systems realised in System-on-Chip (SoC) form is increasingly turning to the use of configurable and extensible processors. Such designs start at a high level of abstraction, ...

Microsoft outlines plans to make C++ more suited for massively parallel systems Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor June 15, 2011 at 2:32 a.m. PT ...