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Anyone here familiar with the STM Cube IDE USB stack, for writing to a slow FLASH device?
The background is here and here but nobody seems to know. However lots of people must have gone up this path... I am happy to give somebody some money to do this bit of code.
 
Unit testing frameworks for embedded c
Until now, I was not be able to arrange a full unit testing for any of my projects, but I want to invest some time to learn this method of development. There are plenty C unit testing frameworks out...
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Gerbv rant
The Idea was to bypass the lame gui using the cmdline opts but it can't combine on export. So the second try was just translating then doing the 1hour-clicky-dance to combine everyhing. But as it...
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buying unlocked cell phones
Anyone know of a good source for an "unlocked" cell phone, a basic type along the lines of an "LG Classic Flip". I've bought 3 "unlocked" versions over the internet so far; 2 were locked tight as...
 
Makefile or IDE?
When I download C source code (for example for Linux), most of the time I need to use make (or autoconf). In embedded world (no Linux embedded), we use MCUs produced by a silicon vendor that give you...
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navigation math
Anyone know the method for calculating a reciever's position from the time difference between three rf pulse transmiters of known positions? This has apparantly been in use since the second world war...
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Function pointers: good or bad things?
"I think MISRA C disallows function pointers, partly for this reason." Are function pointers really bad things? Sincerely I found them useful and lastly I was using them more and more. Am I wrong?...
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Worst case stack
I found a nice tool[1] on GitHub. I run it on one of my embedded projects and after a couple[2] of fixes, it eventually printed some good output. There were many unresolved functions, mainly from...
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decoupling the ADC reference on 16F15344
Hello, I would like to know if there's a way to output the internal adc vref(1.024 or 2.048 V) onto the vref+ pin, to attach an external decoupling capacitor. The Datasheet is a bit unclear on this....
 
Are packed structs slower AND safe?
In one of my projects that run on a Cortex-M0+ MCU, I have a few arrays of structs. Now I need to increase the size of the arrays, but I'm out of RAM, so I'm searching for ways to save some space in...
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How to write a simple driver in bare metal systems: volatile, memory barrier, critical sections and so on
Even I write software for embedded systems for more than 10 years, there's an argument that from time to time let me think for hours and leave me with many doubts. Consider a simple embedded system...
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Multithreaded disk access
As a *rough* figure, what would you expect the bandwidth of a disk drive (spinning rust) to do as a function of number of discrete files being accessed, concurrently? E.g., if you can monitor the...
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Convert 16x2 chars display to big TFT display
I have a CPU board that interfaces to a standard 16x2 chars display, based on HD44780 controller. I'd like to replace this display with a full-color big TFT display, maybe 10", but I can't change the...
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Sr Java Backend Developer - Ashburn VA / Piscataway NJ / Alpharetta GA / Dallas TX / Tampa FL
Hi We have an immediate Openings with Our Client for a long term contract posi tion Position #1 Job Title: Sr Java Backend Developer Location: Ashburn VA / Piscataway NJ / Alpharetta GA / Dallas TX /...
 
Stack analysis tool that really work?
arm gcc and Cortex-Mx MCUs embedded systems. Is there a compilation-time (static) tool for stack analysis that really works? The best I could find is -fstack-usage and Perl script, but I guess there's...
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