If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look ...

Assembly lines for electronics products are complicated beasts, often composed of many custom tools and fixtures. Typically a microcontroller must be programmed with firmware, and the circuit board ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. Firmware often is preprogrammed into flash memory devices prior to the printed-circuit board’s (PCB) manufacture to maintain high ...

Making an informed choice between inline and offline device programming requires an in-depth look at both tangible and intangible manufacturing costs. Electronic products such as cell phones, DVD ...

Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

A machine shop in Hutchinson, Minn., supplies components for process control system developers, medical equipment producers, and aerospace manufacturers, among others. Over the past few years, RD ...