Embedded systems have changed a lot in the last 15 years. But until recently a basic building block – the C language – has not kept up. It’s time to start paying more attention to the newest C11 ...

In the world of embedded systems, the language debate is alive and well. For years, C has dominated this space, its minimalistic design and low-level control giving embedded engineers the tools to ...

Mention embedded programming and most will automatically think of C. But while it’s still the dominant language for the space, these days C has lots of company. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of ...

Structures (or “structs” in C) allow you to group several related variables and treat them as one unit. They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined ...

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C Programming ...

TR 18037 programming languages—C extensions to support embedded processors—specify fixed-point arithmetic, named address spaces, named-register storage classes, and basic I/O hardware-addressing ...

On its own, the software development process has numerous hazards and obstacles that require navigation in order to successfully launch a product. The last thing that any engineer wants is challenges ...

We are working on an RFID-based bus-announcement system. We use Embedded C to perform operations, but we don’t how to incorporate the language extensions into an RFID reader. Can you please provide ...

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever. The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe ...