Many programmers can relate to watching a perfectly calculated toolpath crash into a fixture at 3 AM. The simulation may look ...

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Key elements that drive a battery-cell tester. Three main architectures used to construct a tester. Battery-cell testers are commercially available at many different levels of performance. Performance ...

An introduction to the study of computing: fundamental concepts and skills; opportunities at Michigan Tech; career opportunities; social and ethical issues. An alternative starting point of the ...

What is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and what does “real-time” mean anyway? What are the various kinds of state machines, and how to code them efficiently in C? What is object-oriented ...

This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

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Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

A task force set up in 2001 to investigate problems with the Post Office Horizon Systems Electronic Point of Sale Service (EPOSS) found poor coding practices and made a damning conclusion on its code ...

1. In a big company, doing ASIC design verification for a WCDMA modem for 3G cellular chips. 2. Small company, doing Embedded Software Programming. Working on the design and implementation of layer 1 ...

One of the most overlooked, yet critical, challenges facing industrial operators is the lack of proper software management. This can be an obscure issue until a system fails, leaving manufacturers to ...