john@pebblebay.com2020-01-06T20:06:56+00:00November 21, 2019|Blog|
Network driver development is hard Writing network drivers is a tricky business as anyone who has ever tried it will tell you. Or you are talking to Bill Joy. My experience has been on a various RTOSes but mostly on VxWorks. Recently, I wrote a network driver for a new gigabit Ethernet controller for QNX
john@pebblebay.com2019-10-06T20:08:50+01:00October 1, 2019|Blog|
Using VxWorks 7 VxBus device-specific parameters Add flexibility to your driver configuration using device-specific parameters. A couple of years ago we developed a VxWorks 7 BSP for the Renesas R-Car H3 SIP evaluation board. This included developing drivers for the main SoC interfaces: serial, Ethernet, MMC, I2C, GPIO and PCI Express. I wrote the PCI
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T10:38:03+01:00January 2, 2017|Blog|
There has never been a more exciting time to be a part of the embedded software community and become an embedded software developer.
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T10:39:24+01:00November 29, 2016|Blog|
If client is king, how far should you go to respect that mantra, and at what cost to the end product?
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T10:43:05+01:00February 10, 2015|Blog|
Why are serial ports still useful? It is hard to find them on desktop PCs and laptops but they are still an important part of many embedded systems.
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T10:45:34+01:00December 8, 2014|Blog|
The first part of this article looked at why DMA is important and how DMA can be used in a system.
john@pebblebay.com2018-11-20T20:47:15+00:00November 21, 2014|Blog|
In the first part of this two part article we will look at why DMA is used and the benefits it can bring for overall system performance.
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T10:48:57+01:00September 24, 2014|Blog|
Getting an RTOS to run on the Raspberry Pi provides some interesting technical challenges, albeit challenges we have seen on different real-world projects over the years.
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T13:39:39+01:00June 24, 2014|News|
Embedded software development specialists Pebble Bay spoke at this year's UK Device Developers Conference 2014 held in Manchester on the 3rd June 2014.
john@pebblebay.com2018-07-02T11:05:37+01:00June 9, 2014|News|
A new version of Wind River’s VxWorks real time operating system has been launched to help manufacturers of embedded devices take advantage of the unique opportunities posed by the ‘Internet of Things’.
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