Category: Software

PCB design software provider Altium has launched a new cloud-based application, A365 Viewer, to view and share electronic designs through a browser on any web-enabled desktop, phone or tablet. by Julien Happich [via] Until now, designers have been forced to share their PCB designs...

Comprehensive array of arithmetic functions, hand-coded & optimized in assembly language. SEGGER's stand-alone Floating-Point Library has now been extended to include an assembly-optimized variant for RISC-V implementations. The library contains a complete set of high level...

From its lack of simple things like code IntelliSense to more complex requirements like a debugger, quite a number of articles and comments have been written in the past about the inadequacies of the Arduino IDE. Many have pointed out how the IDEs’ attempt at simplifying things makes...

PICKitAutoWatch is a new application and a new approach to programming microcontrollers. PICKitAutoWatch supports both PICkit2 and PICkit3 programmers.  The software is feature rich and easy to use via a simple user interface. PICKitAutowatch is the best value for money products if...

Augmented and Virtual Reality rank among the top 10 technologies driving Industry 4.0 and while they are having a huge impact on the development of new devices, it's interesting to see them also being used as a major ingredient in the technology development process. This was one of the...

SEGGER announces the release of SystemView V3.10, a major update to its system verification tool for embedded systems. The most significant enhancement is the addition of real-time data acquisition via UART or TCP/IP. Any system with UART or TCP/IP connection, typically Ethernet, can...

SEGGER just released Ozone V3.10, a major update to its full-featured graphical debugger and performance analyzer. The new release includes support for custom instructions, allowing disassembly of application-specific instructions added to the CPU core to tailor it for the particular...

One of the things I love about JavaScritpt is the fact it keeps finding applications in different domains. One such use is in Arduino, with Espruino (open-source JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers), and an interesting new one is the AVR8js. AVR8js is an open-source Arduino...