Overview: C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and Python bring safety, simplicity, an ...

Oracle announced Tuesday two new products aimed at Java developers working in the mobile-and-embedded space. The new Java ME Embedded 3.2 is a client runtime optimized for microcontrollers; the new ...

What is embedded Java? This question tends to be difficult because most people and organizations--including Sun--have decided to lump so much under a single name. Java is a language and a platform.

In an attempt to capitalize on the huge opportunity in the embedded systems market, and the dominance of the Java programming platform, Oracle has unwrapped a new set of offerings facilitating the ...

A good working definition of safety-critical Java code is that it issoftware that must be certified according to DO-178B or equivalentguidelines. Certification guidelines impose strict limits on ...

An increasing number of vendors offer 32-bit microcontrollers based on ARM® Cortex®-M processors, and at the same time, there are also new development environments introduced for these microcontroller ...

This article discusses how to use GCJ, part of the GCC compiler suite, in an embedded Linux project. Like all tools, GCJ has benefits, namely the ability to code in a high-level language like Java, ...

Mention embedded programming and most will automatically think of C. But while it’s still the dominant language for the space, these days C has lots of company. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of ...

B# (pronounced “be sharp”) is a tiny, object-oriented, andmulti-threaded programming language that is specially dedicated forsmall footprint embedded systems. Because B# has its roots in the C family ...