Uninterrupted service is expected from many of the connected embedded systems that surround us every day: the phone system, automated banking and credit card verification. Designers must implement ...

AI is vying for circuit and embedded-system design jobs, but in 2025, it still requires a seasoned engineer to ride shotgun.

Embedded software patterns have a lot to offer, not just for embedded systems architects, but for any software engineers who routinely finds themselves facing serious resource constraints such as ...

Jack Ganssle's recent column on “Design Patterns” prompted some vigorous discussion on Embedded.com this week about the usefulness of this technique in embedded systems design. In software engineering ...

In the object-oriented software community, an architectural pattern defines a fundamental structural organization or schema for a software system. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies ...

Processor Information The focus of ECEN 5613 Embedded System design is on learning the fundamentals of hardware and firmware development, and not on learning any particular processor. Students in ...

Alfred Crouch explains the purpose of DFT in his book, Design-For-Test for Digital ICs and Embedded Core Systems: "To exhaustively test a comb ...