They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined types. In embedded systems, structs can provide an elegant, intuitive, and efficient way of accessing ...

Bill Wong covers Digital, Embedded, Systems and Software topics at Electronic Design. He writes a number of columns, including Lab Bench and alt.embedded, plus Bill's Workbench hands-on column.

But according to a recent study by the Barr Group, over 95 percent of embedded-system code today is written in C or C++. And yet, the world is changing. New coders, new challenges, and new ...

Embedded systems design and development can sometimes seem worlds apart from traditional application development on general computing devices and maybe even more so from Web development on the server ...

2. Small company, doing Embedded Software Programming. Working on the design and implementation of layer 1 control and device drivers for a Mobile TV system.

In C, this would require the building and/or management of the Ethernet stack. The embedded operating system often handles this on more general-purpose processors.

Title: Practical Linux Programming: Device Drivers, Embedded Systems and the InternetAuthor: Ashfaq A. Khan Publisher: Charles River Media ISBN: 1-58450-096-4 Price: $49.95 I became quite curious when ...