Tag: Embedded Software

  • Successful Endeavours – Research Service Provider

    A simpler way to start R&D If your product development has reached a technical question that requires new knowledge to answer, you may not need to commit immediately to a large development program. Successful Endeavours is now a registered Research Service Provider (RSP) under the Australian Government’s Research and Development…

  • C Programming Use Continues

    C Programming Language The C Programming Language was developed by Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson at Bell Laboratories between 1969 and and 1973. It was the successor to B and used to create Unix. The recent bad experience with the Multics time sharing operating system development had made Bell Laboratories sensitive…

  • The Internet of Insecure Things

    Insecurity in Cyberspace This is not one of those topics that makes you feel better initially. In IoT Security we looked at how the emerging IoT world needed to protect itself against attacks. This is a different problem to pure Software Security which has its own challenges.   It was…

  • Top Programming Languages 2017

    Top Programming Languages Each of the past three years IEEE Spectrum have conducted a survey of the Top Programming Languages. This year they have done it again and the results are in. The overall winner is Python with C taking out the Embedded Software category.   Here is the overall…

  • I Nearly Retired

    Manufacturing Profits you can retire on I was talking with one of our past clients a little while ago. They told me they had a problem. They said, “Ray, I nearly retired“! So I asked them what that meant. And they explained.   We had developed a product for them…

  • Electronics Design: Technology Selection

    Technology Selection Before we look at how to choose a Technology, what does Technology mean? In very general terms, Technology is understanding how stuff works and how to get it to do what you want. There is lots of different stuff available. In the case of Electronics Design this stuff…

  • Embedded Development: The Interview Part 2

    Embedded Development This is the second in a series of interviews between Ray Keefe of Successful Endeavours and Lance Harvie of People 4 Embedded. Lance is a LinkedIn connection of mine has wanted to do a series of interviews with Embedded Developers to go over issues, tips and career advice…

  • Embedded Development: The Interview Part 1

    Embedded Development Embedded Development is the process of creating a computing system that is encapsulated within a self contained object. This object may or may not be part of a larger system. In it’s own right it is an Embedded System. So how do you go about creating an Embedded…

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

    Curiosity Landing We were an excited bunch of Engineers as we watched the live feed from NASA of the landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Given the telemetry delay of 15 minutes, the real landing had already happened. Here we were looking back in time as we were…

  • Engineers in Business

    Ideas Worth Pursuing   BRW recently ran an article by Matt Barrie on business ideas that are worth pursuing. If you haven’t heard of Matt Barrie, he founded Freelancer. In the article he wrote about business ideas that interest him, and what doesn’t interest him. In particular he had a…