The U.S. District Court of Delaware's "Default Standard for Access to Source Code" follows many but not all recommended best practices for source code discovery. This month we consider potential areas for improvement in the default rules of this important venue for patent infringement and software copyright litigation.
With all the automation available today, it's easy for programmers to overlook costly overhead introduced into machine code by the compiler. Interrupt handlers are one key area worthy of a closer inspection.
The limitations of an 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) can sometimes make conventional C constructs produce suboptimal code. In this article we look at common problems on the 8051 family and discuss workarounds in C.
Some human languages are read and written from left to right; others from right to left. A similar issue arises in the field of computers, involving the representation of numbers.
Given a particular programming problem, what language should you use to realize the solution? Your choice could very well affect the success or failure of the project. So you'd better choose wisely.
The 8051, 68HC11, and Microchip PIC are popular microcontrollers, but they aren't necessarily easy to program. This article shows how the use of ANSI C and compiler-specific constructs can help generate tighter code.
