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January 25th, 2012, by Colin Walls | Permalink

I was recently interviewed by EEWeb about my career and interests and ideas about the world of electronics and embedded software. If you are curious, you can have a read here.

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This blog is a discussion of embedded software matters - news, comment, technical issues and ideas, along with other passing thoughts about anything that happens to be on my mind.

Measuring RTOS performance – a Web seminar
The Italian cuckoo
Preparing for GTC
Photography rebooted
Who needs a Web server?
PowerPoint hints and tips #2

May 2012 (4)
- Measuring RTOS performance – a Web seminar
- The Italian cuckoo
- Preparing for GTC
- Photography rebooted
April 2012 (10)
- Who needs a Web server?
- PowerPoint hints and tips #2
- New book
- Video
- How do you tell the time?
- In an open-source world, it’s all about integration
- What are meetings for?
- Comparing apples with apples
- Poison yogurt
- Embedded software performance optimization: Forget about it!
March 2012 (9)
- Universal time
- ESC imminent
- PowerPoint hints and tips #1
- Not the Embedded Systems Conference
- Signs of the times
- Trends
- Hail the straw man
- Embedded World visited
- Seeing the light
February 2012 (8)
- Looking forward to Embedded World
- Death by PowerPoint
- A slick UI
- The first 12 notes of a song
- IPv6 is really coming
- Am I fit?
- More on System-C
- A random act of kindness
January 2012 (9)
- Q&A
- Who do I think I am?
- Interview
- Joining the embedded bandwagon
- Not going metric
- Goodbye ICT
- Collectomania
- Everything is wireless
- Crystal ball gazing
December 2011 (7)
- Season’s greetings
- The invisible RTOS continued
- Stop, thief!
- The invisible RTOS
- Good health to you
- On the road again
- Culture
November 2011 (8)
- System-C for embedded systems programming
- Who am I?
- What is the plural of Linux?
- Data in the cloud
- Device drivers on SMP systems
- The death of the CD?
- Who needs a debugger anyway?
- How many?
October 2011 (9)
- Hardware designers and software
- Becoming a millionaire
- Dennis Ritchie and C for embedded
- How green is my aircraft?
- The value of software
- Winter fuel
- Efficient code – quiz answers
- The alarm
- Conference season
September 2011 (9)
- All the data in the world
- Efficient code – a quiz
- Sonos
- C libraries
- A key to success
- VDC survey
- And where were you?
- Embedded expectations
- Being rich
August 2011 (10)
- Stuffing bits
- Pecha Kucha
- Web seminar
- Instrumentation
- Working with fire and steel
- Monolithic or not
- How did we do it?
- Get packing
- Monopoly
- The ideal programming language?
July 2011 (8)
- Festival fever
- Embedded tools – the third way
- Drawing on the right side of the brain
- What language?
- Swifts
- Data types and code portability
- Traveling light
- ARM Development Conference
June 2011 (10)
- Giving it away
- USB 3.0 and data storage
- Tempus fugit
- On the move
- OGWT
- After DAC
- How would you like it done?
- System power
- Tilting at windmills
- More on DAC
May 2011 (11)
- Memory signature follow-up
- Handedness follow-up
- DAC
- USB power
- E-reading
- Web seminar
- Memory signature
- Non-human handedness
- And the winner is …
- What time is it?
- ESC Silicon Valley
April 2011 (10)
- Do e-books make me read more?
- USB 3.0
- Too many mega-XXX
- Choosing an embedded operating system
- Fireworks
- Web seminar
- USB – class drivers
- Legal anachronisms
- Why does power matter?
- Web seminar
March 2011 (10)
- Precise or random?
- Device registers in C
- Moderate cycling on the road to Damascus
- Share and share alike
- Evernote
- Why move to C++?
- Perspectives on a missed opportunity
- Embedded World 2011
- Web seminar
- The parcel that wasn’t stolen
February 2011 (9)
- Hiring embedded software engineers
- Cool Katie
- A question of honor
- C++ reference parameters – the downside
- The happy ending
- A different angle on multicore
- Jubilee!
- Who needs hardware designers?
- Big vs little
January 2011 (8)
- Where does embedded software come from?
- The King’s Speech
- C++ – for loops
- iPad/iPhone iOS 4 closing apps
- Secret codes
- A movement
- Software saves lives
- Best tech of 2010
December 2010 (7)
- Have a drink on me
- The power of a greeting
- Heavy elements
- Embedded Software Engineering Kongress 2010
- Why grow?
- More uses for an MMU
- A one way trip
November 2010 (9)
- Embedded software in 2011
- Friends, Romans and Dunbar’s number
- Firmly in line
- In judgment
- ARM Tech Con 2010
- Bad food
- The UI debate
- And you are?
- USB – even more
October 2010 (8)
- What’s my iPad for?
- Scandinavian embedded
- Back to school
- Go Forth!
- Up hill
- The interview
- Starting a business
- A busy season
September 2010 (8)
- Moving house
- RTOS deployment
- Element 13
- What date is it?
- USB – real speed
- The wrong word
- The one line RTOS
- Handedness
August 2010 (9)
- C++ at fault
- RPN
- Embedded Linux – why?
- Thanks for the memory
- USB – the need for speed
- What is stress?
- Function parameters
- The wardrobe
- Chinese embedded
July 2010 (10)
- iPad – how I feel
- Why write code?
- More laziness
- Electronics for the sick
- Can you do the placebo?
- AMP & SMP revisited
- iPad – an interim report
- When compilers do magic
- Arthur Smith and the Italians
- The Soviet Empire – my part in its downfall
June 2010 (10)
- EDA and embedded software
- No comment on the World Cup
- Laziness as a business asset
- MCAPI – lessons learned
- Being a mentor
- How did I get into this?
- Uniquely annoying
- AMP vs SMP
- Reality
- Static or static
May 2010 (8)
- A good day out
- Hacking your car
- What sign are you?
- Using an MMU
- Books and e-books
- OS influence on power consumption
- iPad impressions
- ESC Silicon Valley 2010
April 2010 (9)
- What is my PC for?
- Introducing MCAPI
- The perfect day
- Vintage multi-core – the IPC
- The 4 Ds principle
- Vintage multi-core – introduction
- Out of gas?
- RTS Embedded Systems 2010
- Learning a language
March 2010 (9)
- USB – what we learned
- Perfect chocolate
- Graphical medicine
- Thinking is important
- Technology trends
- Words on the move
- EW 2010
- The AIRpod
- What is “real time”?
February 2010 (8)
- A taxi in Munich
- Staying in line
- The Names Game
- Android beyond mobile
- Avatar
- Thanks for the memory
- What is my phone for?
- Overloading or obfuscation?
January 2010 (8)
- Indefinite
- Product quality: belief or proof?
- Vacation for the PC repair man
- Agile revisited
- Time’s arrow
- Small or fast?
- aMAZEd
- C, C++ and the family tree
December 2009 (8)
- A Google mobile lab, anyone?
- Crystal ball
- Stand-by or boot-up
- There, their
- Agile embedded
- Innovation as an Asset
- IP/ESC’09
- Keeping the lights on
November 2009 (10)
- Blocking and non-blocking APIs
- Cars made from wood
- Yes!
- 8 bits anyone?
- Driving on the right side of the road
- C is great, but…
- Droids dropping like bombs
- Parlez vous Fortran?
- Palindromic numbers
- Multi-core, multi-OS confusion
October 2009 (9)
- Muffins in Colorado
- Where does Ford make its paint?
- Time travel
- Introducing the iBrush
- Sex, money and the weather
- Heap contiguity revisited
- Going green
- Simulation – better than the real thing?
- Mind your language
September 2009 (8)
- MMU and heap contiguity
- What kind of pillows do you want?
- Creeping elegance
- Government sponsored charity
- How many mobile phones?
- Stand aside! I’m an expert
- Seeing is believing
- A plea
August 2009 (9)
- volatile
- Stolen!
- Multi-core/multi-OS – terminology
- Feedback
- The RTOS business – a story
- Reading aloud
- ++i or i++?
- The .99 phenomenon
- USB: easy, but …
July 2009 (9)
- Problem solving
- Devices that phone home
- An odd coincidence
- Y2K redux
- Mind mapping
- The Works
- Best barman in the world
- When a fancy UI is not a luxury
- Live music
June 2009 (9)
- Language extensions
- The 8 day week
- Fix it in the software!
- How to sell more toothpaste
- What is an embedded system?
- Glass blowing
- There are 10 kinds of people in the world
- You want a macchiato?
- Who needs OS source code?
May 2009 (9)
- By royal appointment
- Assembly language is always smallest/fastest – not!
- Exhibitionism
- Would you buy a TCP/IP stack from me?
- Linux in the embedded world
- How much of a geek am I?
- Why medical systems need WiFi
- Boldly splitting infinitives
- ESC Silicon Valley 2009: The Fashion Parade

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