Many people erroneously credit the term “bug” to Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. In fact, however, no one knows where the term originated, and it may go back to Thomas A Edison or even earlier.

If you’re like most embedded developers, you probably use your silicon vendor's integrated development environment. These IDEs come packed with many features, but they often aren’t customizable to fit ...

Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

The greatest challenge facing embedded system developers is debugging software. Embedded systems have become highly complex, running real-time operating systems, connectivity stacks, USB, and security ...

Debugging microcontrollers is both a technical and creative challenge, bridging code analysis with hardware checks. Whether working with Arduino boards, PICkit 3 programmers, or ESP32-powered projects ...

The circular history buffer debugging technique uses a fixed amount of memory to hold the most recent software events leading up to the failure. Older software events are overwritten. Information ...

Microsoft has created a built-in JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, the wildly popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a ...

Most test-equipment manufacturers live on the leading edge of electronics. Their advanced instruments give engineers the tools to develop the latest, limit-pushing circuits and systems, because “you ...