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Are Engineering Jobs Back?

Apr.20, 2010 in Career, Embedded Leave a Comment

For some time now we’ve been bombarded with news about how bad the economy is.  It seems like every time you turn on the news there is talk of how the unemployment rate is the “highest it’s been in the last thousand years” (I’m paraphrasing, of course).  Even though I was aware of all the [...]

Tags: Careers

State Machine Design Articles

Jan.16, 2010 in Articles, C/C++, Embedded 2 Comments

I’ve always been fond of state machines.  I don’t know why but perhaps it has to do with the fact that they have a visual representation that makes it easy to understand the sequence of operations.  Granted, I’m talking about well thought out state machines.  I have seen people abuse the state chart tool to [...]

Tags: Articles, State Machines

Resolving “branch out of range” Errors When Using Older MIPS Compilers

Jun.25, 2009 in C/C++, Embedded, Linux, Programming 2 Comments

In embedded software design it is common to want to have the code footprint as small as possible.  Therefore, it is fairly common when using the GNU C++ compiler to use the -O2 option which includes the -O optimization flags plus a whole slew of others.  You would think that the best optimization is always [...]

Tags: C/C++, Embedded, Programming

A Terminal For Your Cell Phone

May.05, 2009 in Cool Stuff, Embedded, Just Because Leave a Comment

If you have a Windows Mobile based cell phone you can now convert it into a laptop.  Celio Corp is selling a product called Redfly that is basically a laptop shell that runs off of the cell phone itself.  It comes in a 7″ version and an 8″ version and for now it only supports [...]

Tags: Cool Stuff, Embedded, Terminal, Tools

No More Software Development Conference

May.02, 2009 in C/C++, Career, Embedded, Programming 1 Comment

I just read this article about how the annual Software Development Conference has been obsoleted.  Earlier this year, TI cancelled one of it’s major annual conferences as well.  Of course these are all probably a sign of the current economic situation where people just can’t afford to pay for a conference.  Companies can’t afford the [...]

Tags: Careers, Embedded, Programming
  
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