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The five technology trends to consider before the actual fully autonomous vehicles become a fact. These also show our future of automotive. Vehicles as IoT Devices The internet of things provides a great potential for interconnectivity and linking smart vehicles into a network, providing the possibility of optimizing vehicle performance and driver experience. This trend […]

The embedded industry was born with the invention of microcontrollers/microprocessors and since then it has evolved into various forms, from primarily being designed for machine control applications to various other new verticals with the convergence of data communications.  Various classes of embedded systems such as media systems for homes, portable players, smartphones, embedded medical devices

Dynamic Memory Allocation is defined as a process where the size of a data structure can be modified during the run time. There are certain predefined functions which can implement the above condition.There are 4 library functions provided by C all of which are defined under <stdlib.h> header file to facilitate dynamic memory allocation in

Firmware Dual booting is not just a matter of software. Or, it is, but it involves changing your firmware, which among other things tells your machine how to begin the boot process. Here are some firmware-related issues to keep in mind. UEFI vs. BIOS Before attempting to install, make sure your firmware configuration is optimal.

Constant Pointers: A constant pointer is a pointer that cannot change the address its holding. In other words, we can say that once a constant pointer points to a variable then it cannot point to any other variable. Declaration of constant pointer: <type of pointer> * const <name of pointer> An example:                 int * const

Data types specify how we enter data into our programs and what type of data we enter. C language has some predefined set of data types to handle various kinds of data that we can use in our program. These data types have different storage capacities. C language supports 2 different types of data types:

There are two ways to pass arguments to a function — Pass by Value and Pass by Address. The major difference between Pass by Value and Pass by Address is in the pass by value copy of actual arguments is passed to respective formal arguments. While, in the call by reference, the location (address) of

Macros are preprocessed, meaning that all the macros would be executed before the compilation stage. However, functions are not preprocessed but compiled. Example of Macro: #include<stdio.h> #define  A 10 int main() {      printf(“%d”,A);      return 0; }  OUTPUT=10; Example of Function: #include<stdio.h> int A() {     return 10; } int main() {     printf(“%d”, A());     return 0; }

The present VLSI electronic systems rely on the Silicon MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) technology which advances will soon come to saturation. Carbon nanotubes represent an advancement in the materials technology with the potential for providing switching devices that may be faster and smaller than the present MOS devices. Carbon nanotubes are miniature tube structures with

If a function is defined as a friend function in C++, then the protected and private data of a class can be accessed using the function. By using the keyword, the friend compiler knows the given function is a friend function. For accessing the data, the declaration of a friend function should be done inside