Today's assortment of electronic gadgets relies on digital signal processing to interact with the outside world. Everything from your thermostat to cell phone and handheld organizer requires ...

Efficient coding has been an important subject for years especially for resource constrained systems running real-time applications. Most people take compiler optimizations for granted and do not ...

When I started college, design of the Intel 4004 was underway. The C programming language and UNIX operating system were being developed (unbeknownst to me). I did most of my programming in BASIC on ...

Altium has added a Tasking compiler that expands its range for advanced 32-bit single-core and multi-core microcontroller based automotive applications, where ISO 26262 support is essential; it ...

Here’s a history quiz: What architecture did the first C++ compiler target? Of course, it is a trick question. The original C++ — known then as C with classes — compiler wrote out standard C code that ...