Embedded and Microcontrollers blog

Developing for the embedded world is a really interesting challenge, as any object may become part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Even though you have “only” few dollars to put in your “Thing” to make…

[re-printed from PSoC Creator News and Information]As you may already know, PSoC Creator 4.0 is available for download on the Cypress website. There are some significant new features in this release including…

As we know, we frequently utilize SPI devices on the embedded boards, however, many development boards have no SPI devices, as a result, there is no registration information of SPI devices  in it's kernel…

There have been around 500 CubeSat-class satellites launched into orbit since 2000 and the forecast is that these super-cool miniature satellites will continue to be launched in increasing numbers. CubeSats…

7 steps to make you quickly start MYIR Z-turn Board:                     Quick start:      …

How to set up QT compiling environment for a single board computerHow to set up QT compiling environment for a single board computer? Here we take Forlinx single board computer for example.Generally, a…

SOMNIUM DRT is is a set of development tools for ARM Cortex-M based devices such as the STM32 devices from STMicroelectronics. It is fully compatible with industry-standard tools such as the GNU toolchain…

Yesterday we ran our live webinar covering our Arm CryptoCell technology. We covered how attacks on devices are becoming more sophisticated and the impact this has on your security solution.

A lot can be learned from studying the evolution of mobile security and considering which aspects can be applied to lower cost IoT platforms.  Now that ARM TrustZone for v8-M is becoming available on microcontrollers…

It is difficult to pinpoint the exact date, but over the past few years, IoT has evolved from being an industry specific term, to a concept that’s more commonly understood by people from all walks of life…

If you are interested in learning more about security and ARM TrustZone CryptoCell technologies, check out our recent webinar Watch now: How to protect your systems with ARM TrustZone CryptoCell.Connected…

It has been a while (my apologies) but a few weeks ago I posted about how you can Magically Reduce Coding Time with PSoC Creator. The thrust of the article was, in these days where no-one has time to read…

This blog is the second in a series on the new debug features in SOMNIUM DRT. The first one was about the live expression view.Debugging is difficult, especially when unexpected errors cause the program…

Ada is a general purpose language that has been designed to address the needs of embedded systems. In this blog we present the qualities which make Ada a powerful tool for embedded programming.

This interview at the IOT Devcon turned into a mini-connectivity training discussion with Vivek Mohan from Silicon Labs. Here are the questions answered by Vivek concerning iot connectivity> How are standards…

ARM is introducing a new processor-specific ELF section attribute flag SHF_ARM_PURECODE. This attribute aims to facilitate the separation of instructions and data in program's memory when targeting micro…

Time is running out. Don't miss the opportunity to get an EagleSoC development kit featuring a Cortex-M3 PSoC 5LP device.I posted about this a couple of weeks ago and there is still time to back the…

Some friends of ours at EagleSoC just launched a Kickstarter project for their cool PSoC 5LP-based development boards. These boards are a lower cost alternative to the Cypress Development Kits (CY8CKIT…

AUSTIN, Texas—Security is a balance between how much hackers want to gain by infiltrating a system and how much cost and complexity teams are willing to handle to prevent the hack. That was the message…

In this post I start the process of building an oscilloscope's DIY kit using Arm and STMicroelectronics components

Debugging Embedded Systems: the Problems and SolutionsThis article is the first in a series on the new debug features in SOMNIUM DRT.We all know from experience(and this is confirmed by many studies) that…