Debugging Ccache Misses

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 1 year ago

Saving bandwidth with delta firmware updates

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Tnstalling GDB for ARM

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Building an On-Device Embedded Testing Library

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C Structure Padding Initialization

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 2 years ago

Pocket article: How to implement and use .noinit RAM

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Automatically format and lint code with pre-commit

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Opaque Pointers and Objects in C

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Balancing Test Coverage vs. Overhead

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Proper Release Versioning Goes a Long Way

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Seamless Firmware Development with PlatformIO

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

What we’ve been reading in November

Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this November. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

And Worst MCU SDKs

A detailed comparison of ARM Cortex-M Microcontroller SDKs and BSPs, from best to worst. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

MCUboot Walkthrough and Porting Guide

A guided tour of the MCUboot feature set and how to port it to a Cortex-M application | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Advanced GDB Usage

A collection of advanced GDB tips, extensions, and .gdbinit macros to speed up your debugging experience with the GNU debugger. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Separating Unique Parameters from Firmware Binaries

Post covering how to provision unique parameters, such as serial numbers or public and private encryption keys, onto firmware-based devices. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Monitoring Fleet Health with Heartbeat Metrics

Monitoring and tracking embedded devices using heartbeat metrics, an alternative to log processing, helps hardware and IoT companies derisk firmware updates and alerts them to issues quickly. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Building Custom Drivers for Zephyr RTOS

A guide on how to build custom drivers for hardware on the Zephyr RTOS using the Device Driver Model. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

The Device Firmware Update Cookbook

A guide on how to build OTA DFU for your projects, as well as some common design pattern that are useful for implementing firmware update. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

How do breakpoints even work?

A walk through of how hardware and software breakpoints work, how they are configured using GDB Remote Serial Protocol, and how to configure hardware breakpoints using the ARM Cortex-M Flash Patch and Breakpoint Unit | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang

An overview of how to compile an ARM Cortex-M based project with LLVM/Clang and an exploration of the neat features available in the toolchain such as static analysis to identify memory leaks and deadlocks | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 3 years ago

Hunting Bugs with Git Bisect

An introduction to using git bisect against a set of changes as a bug-hunting tool, followed by some deeper techniques to speed up the process of tracking down when unintended behavior is introduced | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Gdbundle – GDB and LLDB's Missing Plugin Manager

Introducing gdbundle, a minimalist plugin manager for GDB and LLDB, which enables developers to easily install Python scripts from PyPi | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

GNU Binutils: The ELF Swiss Army Knife

A guide of how to make the most of GNU Binutils and other tools to examine ELFs | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

A Shallow Dive into GNU Make

A brief overview of GNU Make and its features, Makefile syntax, and how to use Make to build C/C++ software and firmware | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems

A step by step guide covering how to integrate watchdog timers (both hardware and software) on embedded systems, best practices, and how to debug and root cause the errors which lead to watchdog resets. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Rust for Low Power Digital Signal Processing

A step by step guide on how to use Rust for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in a firmware project | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

I2C in a Nutshell

An in-depth explanation of the I2C protocol, followed by common bugs and how to fix them. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Managing Developer Environments with Conda

How to use Conda for managing build, test, and debug environments and dependencies for local development and continuous integration in the context of embedded software projects | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

From Zero to Main(): Bare Metal Rust

Bringing an embedded Rust application from zero to main | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Bootstrapping Libc with Newlib

Newlib is most commonly used C standard library in ARM-based embedded systems. In this post, we learn more about Newlib and how to use it in a project. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Using Asserts in Embedded Systems

Asserts are a quick and proven way to prevent bugs in embedded systems. An optimal assert implementation maximizes the context around the assert with minimal code and RAM overhead. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

And Worst GCC Compiler Flags for Embedded

An exploration of the best and worst GCC (and Clang) compiler options and flags for embedded development with practical examples of why the flags are good or bad | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Embedded C/C++ Unit Testing Basics

An overview of unit testing embedded software. Topics covered include fakes, mocks, and stubs, as well as setting up and using CppUTest. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

A Practical Guide to BLE Throughput

An overview of the factors which influence the throughput realized when using Bluetooth Low Energy and step-by-step instructions on how to analyze what is limiting throughput in real applications | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Building Better Firmware with Continuous Integration

A step by step guide on how to use continuous integration for firmware projects with CircleCI. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

A Practical Guide to ARM Cortex-M Exception Handling

Step-by-step walkthrough of ARM Cortex-M Exception handlers & how to configure ARM System Fault Handlers and the Nested Vector Interrupt Controller (NVIC) with examples in C | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Building a CLI for Projects Using Invoke

A walkthrough on how to build a command line interface (CLI) for a firmware project using the Python Invoke package. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Code Size Optimization: GCC Compiler Flags

A walk through of GCC configuration options and flags to optimize firmware code size | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

How to Write a Bootloader from Scratch

An in-depth tutorial on how to write a bootloader from scratch for ARM cortex-m series microcontrollers. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

A Deep Dive into ARM Cortex-M Debug Interfaces

A walk through of the ARM Debugger Stack from the Coresight DAP to Debug Probes to GDB Server. Followed by a logic analyzer trace of a end to end SWD transaction | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Supercharge GDB with Python PyPi Packages

How to setup GDB and Python to use PyPi packages in GDB scripts | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Fix Bugs and Secure Firmware with the MPU

Step-by-step examples of how to use the ARM Cortex M Memory Protection Unit (MPU) to improve firmware security and stability. | Continue reading


@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Get the most out of the linker map file

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Demistifying Firmware Linker Scripts

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

How to Dig into Firmware Code Size

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

GNU Build IDs for Firmware

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago

Debugging Firmware with GDB

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@interrupt.memfault.com | 4 years ago