10 software tips for hardware engineers
Jacob Beningo, EDN (January 28, 2013)
Embedded system design often requires not only an understanding of the hardware but also of how the software affects and interacts with it. Designing hardware requires a certain engineering paradigm that can be a complete polar opposite of designing software. When transitioning from hardware design to include software design, here are ten software tips that hardware engineers should keep in mind when they start developing software.
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