In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such ...

Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

As I'm spending some time back in the land of low-level C, I'm trying to fully get my head around best-practices for header files and code organization, so I thought I'd toss out some questions. (NOTE ...

Does it ever make sense to declare a variable in C or C++ as both volatile (in other words, “ever-changing”) and const (“read-only”)? If so, why? And how should you combine volatile and const properly ...

Hardware abstraction layers (HALs) are an important layer to every embedded software application. A HAL allows a developer to abstract or decouple the hardware details from the application code.

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...