Articles
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Firmware Upgrades
It’s very easy to forget field upgrades of device firmware when you are designing embedded systems. As a developer you are probably flashing test firmware directly into a device, and it is awfully easy to slip into the mindset that once you have finished development the firmware will never need to be changed again. This…
Category Design
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Pre-Production Perils
As you get nearer the point of starting production, things begin to change.
Category Product Development
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Why Scoping Matters
We touched on scoping in our series about electronic product development, but it’s such a huge subject that it really deserves its own article. Scoping is the very first phase of a project, the step where the idea or aspiration behind a device gets turned into a concrete set of features and processes. It is…
Category Design
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Altium for Software Engineers
I am not a hardware engineer. Somehow Altium has become an essential tool anyway.
Category Debugging
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Where To Put Your Processing?
When you are designing a cloud-connected product, you have a choice. Do you put the main chunk of your processing locally in the device or up in the cloud?
Category Design