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Documenting System Architecture With AsciiDoctor

May 23, 2023

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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Medical Devices with Machine Learning?

May 16, 2023

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.

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10 Pillars of Modern Embedded. Pillar 2: Managed Environments

May 9, 2023

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.

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10 Pillars of Modern Embedded. Pillar 1: One Source

April 27, 2023

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.

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EmbedOps: The Future of DevOps for Embedded Firmware

March 14, 2023

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.

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How To Protect Your Firmware: 5 Mistakes To Avoid

February 21, 2023

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.

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Troubleshooting: Some common, but often unchecked, assumptions to investigate

January 26, 2023

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?

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Finding Time for Rust: 7 Simple Steps to Learn Rust

November 21, 2022

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.

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Using The Nordic nRF Sniffer For BLE

September 6, 2022

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.

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Our Engineers: Seán Alling

August 31, 2022

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…

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