Accelerated Technology, and MCCI integrate Nucleus RTOS and protocol stacks from Mentor Graphics with MCCI USB Data Pump firmware package for multifunction USB peripherals such as keyboards, joysticks, printers. [Embedded.com]

Tutorial to get OS up and running on new hardware; the first task when using any new OS. By Anthony J. Massa, Embedded.com.

Gives an introduction to priority inversion and shows a pair of techniques to avoid them.

Seasoned programmer Thomas Niemann thinks the increasingly widespread use of object-oriented programming in embedded development is largely unwarranted. Followed by a contrary view from the technical editor of Embedded Systems Programming.

Article at Embedded.com.

Compares C, Ada, Java, for flaws and strengths in realtime programming, embedded software, built-in support for multithreading; text, code samples. Embedded.com.

Explains how the rules for initializing references differ from the rules for initializing pointers.

Explains why the rules for initializing references make passing by reference-to-const an efficient and attractive alternative to passing by value.

Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be.

Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants.