Whitepaper: embedded software development Electronics News

Atollic, distributed by GLYN in Australia, has released a whitepaper on how software developers for embedded systems can manage the problems that crop up in today's complex environment.As microprocessors get increasingly more powerful, so does appetite for additional software functionalities. Size of embedded systems software increase every year and new types of problems is caused as a result. The software industry agree that the largest problems while developing software is no longer how to write the individual code lines; today’s problems are more related to managing ever increasing code complexity, increasing development costs and delays, geographically separated project teams, and too low quality in many software products.Still, it is surprising to see that almost all integrated development environments for development of embedded systems software focus on the same tasks as 20 years ago, mostly the traditional chain of editing, compiling and debugging of code lines only.With better development tools, covering a wider field of problems facing software developers in their everyday work, development times can be reduced and software quality can be improved. It is also important that developers move from considering themselves as “programmers”, and understand that a professional embedded developer of today needs to be a “software engineer” as well, i.e. he or she needs to understand and practice the process of how to develop software well, not only write the actual code lines.The entire whitepaper may be found here.Whitepaper: embedded software development Electronics News