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Documenting System Architecture With AsciiDoctor
By: Steve Branam
As the adage says, a picture is worth a thousand words. Diagrams provide a high level of information abstraction. Somewhere between zero and too much is the sweet spot for the right amount of documentation for a system, balancing the needs of development, quality, cost, and effort.
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Documenting System Architecture With AsciiDoctor
By: Steve Branam
As the adage says, a picture is worth a thousand words. Diagrams provide a high level of information abstraction. Somewhere between zero and too much is the sweet spot for the right amount of documentation for a system, balancing the needs of development, quality, cost, and effort.
Medical Devices with Machine Learning?
This guest post is a collaboration with our friends at Edge Impulse. Edge Impulse shares D5’s passion and vision for modernizing embedded solutions by empowering developers to create and optimize products via embedded development and machine learning.
10 Pillars of Modern Embedded. Pillar 2: Managed Environments
Utilizing a managed environment fosters collaboration and creates stability, reliability, consistency and success in our software development projects. It further allows us to effectively manage and maintain the software environments throughout the development life cycle.
10 Pillars of Modern Embedded. Pillar 1: One Source
Ultimately, having unified control, effective versioning, and traceability of firmware artifacts is paramount in creating high-quality and reliable embedded products. With a single source in place, organizations can ensure their development processes are running optimally for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
EmbedOps: The Future of DevOps for Embedded Firmware
By: Tom Dever, VP of Product
In a rapidly evolving software development market, teams focused on embedded technologies are not benefiting from the same advancements as web and native platform developers. Dojo Five’s EmbedOps is addressing this issue by providing tools, integrations, and services that allow embedded teams to take full advantage of contemporary developer tools and advancements.
How To Protect Your Firmware: 5 Mistakes To Avoid
By: Joe Schneider
You put a massive amount of time, energy, and cost into developing your firmware. As such, protecting your firmware should be a top priority. Avoiding these 5 mistakes will help ensure your firmware stays secure.
Troubleshooting: Some common, but often unchecked, assumptions to investigate
By: Bailey Steinfadt
Are you tearing your hair out trying to find the root cause of a bug? Have you been troubleshooting the same problem for days and feeling like you’re getting nowhere? Minimize your IDE, put the keyboard down, and ask yourself a simple, but hard question…What do you know for sure is true, and what are you merely assuming is true?
Finding Time for Rust: 7 Simple Steps to Learn Rust
By: Nwanua Eluweze
Rust appears to be gaining steam as a solid language to solve complex and challenging problems in embedded systems. Here are a few tips that may help you learn Rust.
Using The Nordic nRF Sniffer For BLE
By: Steve Branam
The Nordic Semiconductor nRF Sniffer for BLE is a great low-cost tool for working with BLE. Once you set it up, capturing and analyzing BLE traffic is easy.
Our Engineers: Seán Alling
Seán Alling is a Staff Firmware Engineer at Dojo Five, and joined the company in May of 2022 working remotely from Davis, CA. Seán was born and raised in the area, growing up in Sacramento before attending college and living in Davis, a community situated on the edge of Yolo County…
Unit Testing For Embedded Software Development
By: Steve Branam
Unit testing uses small automated tests to drive development of embedded system code. Learn best practices for Test Driven Development (TDD), including writing and implementing successful unit tests to provide fast feedback and confidence in your code.
Setting up Jenkins for Embedded the right way (or not at all)
By: Brandon Leiran
Embracing continuous integration (CI) practices and tools makes embedded development smoother. Jenkins isn’t always the best choice for Embedded CI, but if you follow the 3 CI principles laid out in this article, you’ll start off well!
Michael Levesque | Vice President of Engineering
Michael joined Dojo Five in March 2022 as Vice President of Engineering. He grew up in a small rural town outside of Augusta, Maine where he spent spare time working alongside his family building and tinkering with projects. This laid the foundation for one of Michael’s life passions: problem solving…
Hardware-in-the-loop is hard! Sometimes.
By: Ander Galisteo, Ph.D.
The concept of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) is not new in the embedded space. The basic idea is to automate the functional tests of your device under development to verify if your implementation does what it’s supposed to do.
Board to Tears – Supply Chain Woes Hit Embedded Teams Hard
Board to Tears – Supply Chain Woes Hit Embedded Teams Hard Featured Categories Our Engineers Security Embedded CI All Categories Recent Posts By: Conrad Magalis & Joe Schneider You’ve been spending months if not years on an embedded project for a new product launch. And then the worst news of all comes in from the…
Our Engineers: Jeff Cooper
Jeff is a native Minnesotan and a natural tinkerer and techie. Jeff joined the Dojo Five team July, 2019 and loves the variety of projects and clients – as well as the opportunity to work for a growing business and a collaborative team.
Be The Cppcheck Ruler
As a static analysis tool, Cppcheck has a set of default rules. However, when you are further into your development and realize that you need to create your own rules to catch specific bugs, this is the right blog for you. There are two ways to set your own Cppcheck rules: create an XML-based rule…
Embedded Command Line Interfaces and why you need them
Embedded Command Line Interfaces and why you need them Featured Categories Our Engineers Security Embedded CI All Categories Recent Posts By: Joe Perrin During the course of development – from prototyping hardware through manufacturing – it becomes necessary to run test code over and over to verify functionality or perform system-level testing. This…
Using Docker for Embedded Development
By: Patrick LittleSenior Firmware Engineer, Dojo Five Using Docker for Embedded Development By leveraging Docker images, development teams can completely specify and control the development environment without the overhead and bloat of an entire build machine, virtual or otherwise. These same images save time in the future by not having to perform Software Archaeology to…
What does a modern pipeline look like for embedded?
What does a modern pipeline look like for embedded? Featured Categories Our Engineers Security Embedded CI All Categories Recent Posts By: Aaron Fontaine Having a modern pipeline helps automate the tools you need to ensure high software quality and consistent results. Although the cost of setup is higher, once a modern pipeline (and corresponding practices)…