A common, but mostly unconscious habit of software developers when theyface a problem is to break it down into its constituent elements, lookfor patterns of behavior and activity, and compare them to ...

An elegant solution to many embedded software systems problems is leveraging data-centric software design. Data is at the heart of every embedded system. First, data is acquired through sampling ...

Design patterns are formalized best practices that the programmer can use to solve common problems when designing an application or system. In software engineering, a software design pattern is a ...

If you were to look at how most teams develop their software architectures, you’d find a heavy focus on business logic, services, and functionality. While this approach does have many advantages, it ...

Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

It would stand to reason that, in software design, the biggest problems would revolve around new issues that no one has ever encountered before. The truth, however, is that most developers tend to run ...

What are the main issues behind the “painful” process of embedded-systems design? Shortages of resources, components, and talent plague the design process. How the instability of toolsets and driver ...

There is an ironic dichotomy in today's software stacks: While many things are programmed to be operationally deterministic and predictable, the inevitably unstable and unpredictable nature of ...

Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet ...

Here on Hackaday, we’re generally designers of hacks that live in the real world. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that some of the most interesting feats are at the mercy of what’s possible in software, ...