One of the key benefits of the C language, which is the reason it is so popular for embedded applications, is that it is a high-level, structured programming language, but has low-level capabilities.

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

The vast majority of modern processors aren't sold for general-purpose computers, such as PCs and servers. Rather, those processors are placed into dedicated computers such as embedded systems. As the ...