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Simulators in EmbedOps: Another Reason DevOps is Beneficial to your Embedded Development Workflow
Arm is no stranger to DevOps or Continuous Integration (CI). They have several pipeline scripts available for Travis CI and outline how they use Jenkins to build and test Mbed…
Our Engineers: Peter Gabrail
Pete joined Dojo Five in November of 2019 as a Senior Firmware Engineer. He grew up in a little seed in the forest back in Syracuse, NY and did his first programming in high school, working on Commodores and Amigas as a hobby…
How to set up Xilinx Vivado and Vitis on MacOS
Xilinx makes a number of great products that we have worked with in the past. If you haven’t used an FPGA-based platform before, it is amazing what you can do…
Software Bill of Material (SBOM) for Medical Devices
Software Bill of Material (SBOM) for Medical Devices Modern devices are becoming increasingly more complex. Higher user expectations for product features and connectivity have developers looking to include third-party code…
3 Steps to Reading New Code
Approaching Code For The First Time Whether you are approaching a code base for the first time or you are doing a code review for another developer, reading code may…
Unit Tests: Benefits For Your Automatic Build
What are Unit Tests? Unit tests are functions written to test an isolated module in a codebase. Isolation allows for specific modules to be tested without interaction with the rest…
Static Analysis: Is It Necessary for Your Automatic Build?
Is This Extra Step Necessary? Static analysis has the potential to become an integral part of your regular development as well as your continuous integration setup. Is it necessary for…
Choosing a Continuous Integration (CI) compiler
Linux-based gcc ARM cross compilers for bare metal targets While looking for a gcc cross compiler to use for an EmbedOps project, I took a look at my options and…
10 Easy Steps to Add Static Analysis to Your Firmware Build
When it comes to embedded system applications, security is one of the most important requirements. In addition to embedded security topics such as Bluetooth encryption, SSH, and TLS, modern…
Medical Device Documentation
Working on a medical device is a large undertaking. The documentation required by the FDA is able to intimidate even the most stalwart engineer all on its own. But…
How to protect your firmware
Protecting your firmware is a very important topic, especially when you take into account the massive amount of time, energy, and cost that goes into developing it. The best way…
The Arrival of BlueTooth Direction Finding
As someone who has worked with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, the new direction finding feature for BLE 5.1 got me excited and thinking. BLE 5.1 and Direction Finding To…
Our Engineers: Bailey Steinfadt
October 9, 2020|Our Engineers Mobile Robots & Wearable Tech Bailey Steinfadt is a longtime Des Moines-based computer and electrical engineer in the ag industry who recently branched out on her…
Design for IoT Security From the Start
Security has been a hot topic for IoT devices. It gets the spotlight not only due to the ease of some of the exploits but the ubiquity of their use…
Nordic DFU Like a Rockstar
At Dojo Five, we have a lot of experience with the popular Nordic nRF52 family. It’s a pretty awesome family – low sleep current, a really nice peripheral set, and…
The Git Cherry-pick and Git Rebase Interactive Combo
Version control is necessary, but using it well is an art. Today I am going to give an overview of two Git commands that I found helpful during software development,…
Artifacts – They’re useful for firmware too!
Artifacts. What should you save, and what should you leave? As I am currently working with Gitlab, I’ll be talking a bit about how Gitlab uses them, but it can…
Choosing an embedded development board
Choosing a first development board can be daunting with so many choices. Here are some examples to give you an idea of what you could consider for your first board.…
Our Engineers: Cole Spear
September 4, 2020|Our Engineers Meet Cole Cole Spear is an Embedded Software Engineer at Dojo Five. He started with us full time in January 2020, having just graduated with a…
How CI Pipeline Scripts and Exit Codes Interact
What is An Exit Code? An exit code, sometimes called a return code, is a number returned by a shell command or script. It tells the caller the status of…