Embedded systems power the modern world—quietly running inside vehicles, medical devices, industrial controllers, routers, consumer electronics, and countless “smart” products.

Editor’s Note: In an excerpt from their book Embedded System Security, the authors assess the role of C and C++ coding standards and how compliance leads to more secure code. Most safety and quality ...

BARR-C:2018 is fully harmonized with MISRA C:2012. Many firmware developers choose to combine bug-killing stylistic rules from the BARR-C standard with safety guidelines from MISRA C. BARR-C:2018 is ...

Application size and complexity has compounded significantly over the last decade. Take the automotive sector as an example. According to The New York Times, 20 years ago, the average car had a ...

The modernization of programming languages and the importance of better coding techniques is directly related to the evolution from mechanical computers to modern software-development processes. We ...

In the world of embedded systems, the language debate is alive and well. For years, C has dominated this space, its minimalistic design and low-level control giving embedded engineers the tools to ...