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Firmware Update
- August 10, 2009
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In this issue:
-- Real Men Program in C
-- Fall 2009 Embedded Software Boot Camps
-- Test Your Embedded C++ Skills
-- ESC Boston -- Embedded Systems News
Firmware Update is a free electronic newsletter containing analysis, insight, and commentary on firmware architecture and process by embedded software expert Michael Barr. Firmware Update is Copyright 2009 by Netrino, LLC, but may be reprinted or forwarded for interested colleagues. |
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Real Men Program in C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A couple of months ago, I ate a pleasant lunch
with a pair of young entrepreneurs in
Baltimore. Their firm specializes in writing
software for web-centric databases in a
language called Ruby on Rails. As we
discussed many of the similarities and a few of
the differences in our respective businesses,
one of the young men made a comment I
won't soon forget, "Real men program in C."
For today's computer science students, learning C is like taking an elective class in Latin. But C is anything but history and not at all a dead language. And C remains the dominant language in the fast growing field of embedded software development. |
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Fall 2009 Embedded Software Boot Camps ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Embedded Software Boot Camp is a one-
week skills strengthening program consisting
of a series of lectures and hands-on
exercises. This engaging educational
program quickly and dramatically raises the
embedded and multithreaded programming
skills of individuals and teams. Hundreds of
engineers ranging from 0 to 15 years of
embedded software experience and
from EE, CS, and other backgrounds have
already benefited from this popular training.
I'll be leading a pair of Embedded Software Boot Camps this fall. First in Silicon Valley from October 5-9, 2009. Then in Maryland from November 16-20, 2009. Join me to deepen your knowledge and strengthen your programming skills or make the leap to embedded software development. |
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Test Your Embedded C++ Skills ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Over the past 18 months, almost five
thousand embedded software engineers have
tested their embedded C programming skills
by taking the free quiz at Netrino's website.
Thus it is with great delight that I announce a
new Embedded C++ Quiz. Like the C quiz, it's
a quick ten questions and as educational as it
is fun.
If you score at least an 80% on our quiz, your name will be automatically entered into a drawing to win a free seat at a future Embedded Software Boot Camp. |
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ESC Boston ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'll be speaking at the Embedded Systems
Conference, in Boston, on September 21-23,
2009. Subjects include "RTOS Myths" and
"Bad Code" (both free in the ESC Theater), as
well as "Task Prioritization" and "RTOS
Alternatives". This time I'll also be teaching a
hands-on version of the popular full-day
tutorial "Hardware Interfacing in C," with
exercise on an ARM development board.
If you will be at the conference, please let me know so we can plan to connect. |
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Embedded Systems News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Might Air France 447 be a disaster caused by
faulty embedded software?
http://bit.ly/6Oe0e
"Errors in velocity calculations" a known, recurring A330 problem http://bit.ly/iT3Lh Embedded systems "are supposed to make [D.C. Metro] crash impossible" http://twitpic.com/86ge0 I blogged about similarities in fatal Air France 447 and D.C. Metro red line crashes http://bit.ly/Cjd9U Intel buys Wind River for $884m; targets software for embedded devices http://tinyurl.com/poguuf Embedded Internet - 15 billion intelligent, connected devices - Intel http://bit.ly/18obyI "There is evidence that there is no relationship between following development processes and software quality" http://bit.ly/QqCGr What is the most often-overlooked risk in software engineering? Incompetent programmers - David Parnas http://bit.ly/tFvEm EE Times team did an amazing job dissecting the iPhone 3GS http://bit.ly/1bDj0s There was some interesting data about FPGA to emerge from Embedded Systems Design magazine's 2009 Embedded Market Study http://bit.ly/bucH 2 of 3 poll participants at Embedded.com were born after the Moon Landing http://bit.ly/4EXH3T VDC Research is conducting its annual survey of embedded engineers; would like to hear from embedded systems designers http://bit.ly/UxiTR Check out Micrium's snazzy new website http://www.micrium.com
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