The Embedded Muse Back Issues

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Here's a complete set of back issues of The Embedded Muse.

Muse 313 - with another idle meter, more on Windows 10 updates, and a question about good design.
Muse 312 - with more on backups, thoughts on Windows 10, and more approaches to monitoring idle time.
Muse 311 - with an approach to backing up code and thoughts on ways to monitor firmware.
Muse 310 - with resume tips, ideas about managing stacks, and a way to monitor a system's real-time performance.
Muse 309 - with yet more thoughts on software malpractice and an article about computing stack size
Muse 308 - with thoughts on software malpractice, more on goesintos, and the NY City Crash of 2017
Muse 307 - with more thoughts on error codes and thoughts on software malpractice
Muse 306 - with some neat firmware tricks and a briefing on vacuum tubes
Muse 305 - with some great firmware tips, more on Apollo's software, and thoughts on maintainable software
Muse 304 - with great tips, thoughts on the Apollo software, and a review of the book Building Maintainable Software
Muse 303 - with lots of tool suggestions.
Muse 302 - with yet more about software craftsmanship and the notion of programmers vs software engineers.
Muse 301 - with thoughts about software craftsmanship.
Muse 300 - with more on VMs and comments on software craftsmanship
Muse 299 - with a review of Segger's SystemView and an analysis of how many bugs are tolerable in a system.
Muse 298 - with more info about preserving old development systems and quadrature debouncing
Muse 297 - with thoughts about using fancy IDEs and choosing EDA software.
Muse 296 - with thoughts about careful hardware design and engineering ethics.
Muse 295 - with code to handle quadrature inputs and thoughts about CAD tools and privacy
Muse 294 - has info on debouncing quadrature data, and a review of The Phoenix Project
Muse 293 - has results of a survey about firmware development practices.
Muse 292 - with debounce code, a review of The Art of Electronics, and more on prototyping with SMT devices.
Muse 291 - with more thoughts on working with SMT parts, an ARM book review, and a device to square up slow rise times.
Muse 290 - with tons of information about working with surface-mount devices.
Muse 289 - with more info about dealing with second sources and in-the-field firmware updates.
Muse 288 - with ideas for doing in-the-field firmware upgrades and on second sources for components.
Muse 287 - with comments on avoiding bad habits and a lot of metrics about software engineering.
Muse 286 - with several articles about multicore design.
Muse 285 - with thoughts about using multicore in embedded systems, and on computing stack sizes.
Muse 284 - with more info on the decline in office space and more on the forums.
Muse 283 - with info on the decline in office space and thoughts about technical forums.
Muse 282 - with thoughts on bug bounties, how much effort should go into architecture and a Walter Mitty story.
Muse 281 - with more thoughts about discipline and "done," and a great reference for computer approximations.
Muse 280 - contains some thoughts on security of embedded devices, the Hackaday prize, and a definition of DONE for firmware developers.
Muse 279 - with lots of comments about hiring new graduates, more on IDEs, and thoughts on discipline.
Muse 278 - includes a discussion of IDEs, the importance of discipline in firmware work, and some comments about hiring new graduates.
Muse 277 - contains info about Google Protocol Buffers, limited-instruction processors, and more on IDEs.
Muse 276 - has thoughts about an odd IDE, an interesting bug, and 1 instruction processors
Muse 275 - has links to a special report about building ultra-low power systems, and a teardown of a 128 GB thumb drive.
Muse 274 - has a review of a book about writing readable code, more thoughts on the PortPilot, and reflections on middleware.
Muse 273 - with a review of the PortPilot USB current monitor and thoughts about NRE vs COGS costs.
Muse 272 - with comments on overtime, marketing madness, and comments.
Muse 271 - has thoughts on commenting and about reducing entropy in code.
Muse 270 - has thoughts on adding margins to firmware and asks if "==" is a good idea.
Muse 269 - has a lot of responses to the notion of adding margins to firmware.
Muse 268 - has thoughts on adding margins to firmware and on team sizes.
Muse 267 - has thoughts on the DDR3 row hammer problem, using flash memory to affect schedules, and products going obsolete.
Muse 266 - has results of a survey about use of firmware standards and lots of deep insights about software engineering from readers
Muse 265 - has thoughts on MISRA rules that don't add up, a review of Software Engineering for Embedded Systems, and thoughts about modeling
Muse 264 - has interesting insights into computing worst-case execution time, thoughts on protecting IP, and a simple solution to a bug that never should have existed.
Muse 263 - has some pretty good thoughts on computing worst-case execution time, a very cool idea to aid debugging, and a discussion of open offices.
Muse 262 - has another installation in Jake's embedded PI business, plus reader's thoughts about using rate monotonic scheduling.
Muse 261 - has an explanation of spectrum analyzers, reflections on a career, and thoughts about using rate monotonic scheduling in an RTOS.
Muse 260 - responds to feedback about when one should enable interrupts in an ISR, and has tool tips. There's also a contest where the winner gets a free ride into space!
Muse 259 - explores where one should enable interrupts in an ISR, and has tool tips salted in as well.
Muse 258 - contains more discussion about compilers and part 4 of the history of the microprocessor. Lots of tool tips, too.
Muse 257 - contains a discussion about compilers and part 3 of the history of the microprocessor.
Muse 0x100 - is the 256th installment, and contains the history of the microprocessor (parts 1 and 2).
Muse 0xff - contains more about extending the notion of FIR filters to do least squares fits and even derivatives, and lots of feedback about the need for a university degree.
Muse 254 - contains an article about extending the notion of FIR filters to do least squares fits and even derivatives, and thoughts about the need for a university degree.
Muse 253 - contains some more thoughts on licensing, a funny embedded story, and comments about on-going education.
Muse 252 - contains a look at a 68 year-old oscilloscope, more on cosmic rays, and some New Year's resolutions for firmware people.
Muse 251 - contains a review of the DMMCheck calibration standard, more funny embedded applications, and some insight into RAM failure modes.
Muse 250 - contains lots of comments about whether engineers should be licensed and some thoughts about engineering introspection.
Muse 249 - contains a response to the last issue and thoughts on whether we engineers should be licensed.
Muse 248 - contains lots of tool links, and thoughts about debugging logs and failures.
Muse 247 - contains thoughts about user interfaces and failures.
Muse 246 - contains thoughts about uncompensated overtime and some experimental results about the behavior of coin cells, like the CR2032
Muse 245 - contains thoughts about software complexity and uncompensated overtime
Muse 244 - contains thoughts about software metrics, and a bit about ultra-small electronic parts.
Muse 243 - Lots of tools! Plus a review of the Kinetis FRDM-KL25Z $13 Cortex-M0+ evaluation board, and some ruminations about visualizing code.
Muse 242 - contains comments about fixing hard drives and aging software.
Muse 241 - contains comments about the death of EDN and Design East, a discussion about engineering school programs, and a book review (in Spanish!).
Muse 240 - contains a discussion about software aging, embedded security and a book review.
Muse 239 - contains more embedded blogs, a review of Extech's EX330 digital multimeter, and a toastal story.
Muse 238 - contains a lot of ideas for dealing with common code bases, and a sampling of embedded blogs.
Muse 237 - contains more thoughts about the perils of specialization, good tool input from readers, and a link to a neat way to read lots of switches with few I/O lines.
Muse 236 - An update to the review of the Analog Discovery, which was reviewed in issue 233, and thoughts about the perils of specialization.
Muse 235 -A review of a BNC board for the Analog Discovery, which was reviewed in issue 233, reader's thoughts on the best C reference book, and a timely warning about some dangers in using USB instruments.
Muse 234 - A lot of ideas for tracking those random bits of information, and the seven habits of highly dysfunctional developers.
Muse 233 - A review of the Analog Discovery (a USB oscilloscope), discussion about 32 bits killing off 8/16, and a great idea about managing stacks.
Muse 232 - Some tool suggestions, a whacky site for electronic art, info on managing stacks and a very clever approach to software engineering
Muse 231 - Tool suggestions, more thoughts on hardware support for software, and a description of a new interface that recognizes hand gestures. There's also some pictures and thoughts from the Computer History Museum.
Muse 230 - More on datasheets, Teletypes and some fun stuff.
Muse 229 - A rant about datahseets, more on watchdogs, and an ode to the Teletype
Muse 228 - Comparing the Cortex M4 and M0 and a report on Doxygen
Muse 227 - Contains the history of the op amp and a dive into some strange code
Muse 226 - Results of last issue's contest, plus a great link to EE Demographics
Muse 225 - How the Microprocessor has changed, along with a contest
Muse 224 - The Demise of Print, and responses to how hard are you working?
Muse 223 - The Demise of ESD and how hard are you working?
Muse 222 - More spirited discussion about tech magazines
Muse 221 - Thoughts about reading tech magazines
Muse 220 - More comments on Margins and Just Reset It.
Muse 219 - Comments on Margins and Just Reset It
Muse 218 - Some great tools and tips
Muse 217 - The origin of the word Geek and Refactoring
Muse 216 - big.LITTLE and some interesting sites
Muse 215 - Contains a great rant on C
Muse 214 - Talking to management and C++11
Muse 213 - iMSO-104 oscilloscope "plug-in" review
Muse 212 - Tektronix MDO4104-6 scope review
Muse 211 - A joke contest and NRE
Muse 210 - Quotes and Thoughts and some jobs
Muse 209 - More dumb things and backups!
Muse 208 - Backups!
Muse 207 - The dumbest things I have ever done
Muse 206 - Debouncing
Muse 205 - Local knowledge
Muse 204 - Consulting survey results are in
Muse 203 - A consulting survey and more debate
Muse 202 - More thought on advanced degrees
Muse 201 - Interesting thoughts on advanced degrees
Muse 200 - 200th issue!
Muse 199 - thoughts on free software
Muse 198 - More on debouncing
Muse 197 - Back from summer hiatus
Muse 196 - Honesty in Resumes
Muse 195 - Resume follies and superprogrammers
Muse 194 - Book reviews and tips from fellow engineers.
Muse 193 - Results of a Haiku contest and tips and tools.
Muse 192 - 2010 Salary Survey and the annual VDC survey.
Muse 191 - An interesting look at the Embedded Industry.
Muse 190 - Thoughts on the word "embedded,"and more on Toyota and compiler optimizations
Muse 189 - Toyota Brakes, Optimization and a new Paradigm
Muse 188 - Stop bailing, the danger of Volatile, tools, and are debuggers evil?
Muse 187 - Restoring from old backups, a story about EPROMs, more on corrosion, tools and tips.
Muse 186 - Book review, thoughts on corrosion in switches, more tools and tips.
Muse 185 - I'm History!, Tools and Tips, More, Better, Faster
Muse 184 - Tools and Tips, Book Review (Statistics in a Nutshell), Salary Survey
Muse 183 - Tools and Tips, Static Analysis, Optimism and Naming Conventions
Muse 182 - Tools and Tips, Too Much Optimism, Naming Conventions
Muse 181 - Tools and Tips, Book Review, Naming Conventions
Muse 180 - Job Hunting Article, Tools and Tips, Book Review
Muse 179 - Readers Respond
Muse 178 - Tools, Naming Conventions, and CS Education
Muse 177 - Multiprocessing, CS Education, Naming Conventions
Muse 176 - Tools, Naming Conventions, Book Review and CS Education
Muse 175 - Visualizing ICs, Past and Present and Responses to Computer Science Education
Muse 174 - Computer Science Education
Muse 173 - Responses to Quotes and Thoughts and Funny Datasheet
Muse 172 - Comments on My Microchip Comments and more on Criminal Coding
Muse 171 - Criminal Coding, Reuse, and Dot Com
Muse 170 - Reuse and Dot Com
Muse 169 - About Microchip, a book review, header guards and funny datasheets
Muse 168 - Another Book Review and More on Reuse
Muse 167 - Book Review and The Failure of Reuse
Muse 166 - MSP430 Microcontroller Basics, Coders vs. Programmers
Muse 165 - Inheritance, Code Inspections and Comm Monitors
Muse 164 - Debugging and Datasheets
Muse 163 - Hacking HP and More on Multicore
Muse 162 - A Discussion on Multicore
Muse 161 - Firmware's Best Practices
Muse 160 - Firmware - Best Practices, and VDC Survey results
Muse 159 - A VDC Survey, Great Engineer Responses and reasons for a valuable seminar
Muse 158 - Tin Whiskers and a response to Great Engineers
Muse 157 - Great Engineers, some history and contest results
Muse 156 - Low ESR Capacitor Issue and more War Stories
Muse 155 - A Salary Survey and another War Story
Muse 154 - Nuggets, a War Story and the ESD - 20 Years Old
Muse 153 - A Book Review (Serial Port Complete),Open Spaces, Tips
Muse 152 - A Book Review (A Guide For the Perplexed), Tools + Tips
Muse 151 - The Future of Engineering and More on Open Spaces
Muse 150 - A Book Review (First Break all the Rules) and Open Spaces
Muse 149 - Agile 2007, and Multitasking
Muse 148 - Secure Software
Muse 147 - Dependable Software and more Tools + Tips
Muse 146 - My Readers' Rants on Cubicles
Muse 145 - Security, Rant on Cubicles, and Tools + Tips
Muse 144 - Baudot and TTY Corrections and Bit Banging
Muse 142 - English as a First Language, and Tools and Tips
Muse 141 - The Embedded World 2007, and Book Reviews
Muse 140 - Free Books and Tools & Tips
Muse 139 - Engineering as a Process and More Tool Guardians
Muse 138 - A salary Survey, Tool Guardians and Stack Overflows
Muse 137 - Book Reviews and Does Expensive = Good Quality
Muse 136 - Reading Code and Beautiful C++ and more on Debugging Tools
Muse 135 - New Kinds of Debugging Tools and Starting with the Manual
Muse 134 - Reading Code, Debouncing and Preserving Design Decisions
Muse 133 - Preserving Design Decisions
Muse 132 - Survey Results, More on Tools and Another Failure Story
Muse 131 - EDN Turns 50, The Show Myth
Muse 130 - Computer History and another Failure Story
Muse 129 - A Failure Story, Disasters and More Computer History
Muse 128 - Live From the ESC, Computer History and Tidbits
Muse 127 - Test Driven Development and Yet More on Tools
Muse 126 - Getting Better Firmware: A shameless Promotion
Muse 125 - A Book Review - How Do Computers Do Math, and Pre Cad
Muse 124 - Transistor-Free Computing, Firmware is Cheap and More Tools
Muse 123 - Tools and More Tools
Muse 122 - Rounding, More on Tools and Testing
Muse 121 - Tools and Unmaintainable Code
Muse 120 - Interesting Articles, Tools and Bucks not Tech
Muse 119 - Windows Turns 20
Muse 118 - More on Naming Conventions and Engineering Washouts
Muse 117 - Engineering Washouts and Variable Function Naming
Muse 116 - Shipping News and a Review: Design Warrior's Guide
Muse 115 - Backups and Productivity Vs Process
Muse 114 - More jobs
Muse 113 - Surviving IT Project Cancellations, Code Guardians and more
Muse 112 - Computer Magazines and Debouncing
Muse 111 - Circular Buffer and Testing, Zuse Machines and Consulting
Muse 110 - Thoughts on Consulting, a Circular Buffer and the Fear of Editing
Muse 109 - The Digital I/O Handbook and the Rabbit 3000 Microprocessor
Muse 108 - Survey Results, Computer History and more on Testing
Muse 107 - Salary Survey, Testing and Ham Radio for Dummies
Muse 106 - Electronica/ESC, The Deutches Museum, and more Compilers
Muse 105 - More on Watchdogs, Free x86 Compilers and Core Memory
Muse 104 - Interesting Articles and Refactoring Function
Muse 103 - Interesting Factoid, Note on a VCS and Strange Behavior
Muse 102 - Best Development Team and Codewright Replacement
Muse 101 - Driving a Hybrid, more on Debouncing and Elvis Explains
Muse 100 - Debouncing and eXtreme Programming
Muse 99 - Debouncing, Therac 25 revisited and eXtreme Programming
Muse 98 - Programming Proverbs, the eXtreme Programming Conference
Muse 97 - Autobauding and Musings on Debugging
Muse 96 - Testing and Electronic Voting
Muse 95 - New Video
Muse 94 - Feature Driven Development and Time Management Tool
Muse 93 - Redefining C's Operators and Notes on Spam and Viruses
Muse 92 - Tips on using Standard Integers in C, Bug Tracking, Scheduling
Muse 91 - More Endianness
Muse 90 - Book Reviews
Muse 89 - Backups and More on Watchdogs
Muse 88 - Toolchains Aren't Forever (Part 2)
Muse 87 - Toolchains Aren't Forever
Muse 86 - Taming C
Muse 85 - Solutions to Software Failure
Muse 84 - Software WILL Fail
Muse 83 - Power Problems
Muse 82 - Comments on Commenting
Muse 81 - Book Review - Peer Reviews in Software
Muse 80 - Fascinating Study on Redundant Code
Muse 79 - Hands on Courses
Muse 78 - ASICs and Toxic Bosses
Muse 77 - Micro Optical's New Product
Muse 76 - Job Link
Muse 75 - Comment on Disaster
Muse 74 - Systems of Units
Muse 73 - Resources and Links
Muse 72 - ESD follow-up
Muse 71 - Electrostatic Discharge
Muse 70 - Asynchronous Firmware
Muse 69 - Free/Cheap compiler and tool links
Muse 68 - Book review, and request for help in newbie resources
Muse 67 - A Dirty Word (again), and the Best Programming Book
Muse 66 - A Dirty Word, and a Cool Animation
Muse 65 - Hope and Despair
Muse 64 - An Interesting Embedded Book
Muse 63 - Memory Allocation in Embedded Applications
Muse 62 - More on FPGAs
Muse 61 - FPGAs
Muse 60 - Bad Embedded Designs
Muse 59 - An On-line Book, and Notes on Academia
Muse 58 - Embedded Design Disasters
Muse 56 - A Trio of Embedded Books
Muse 55 - More on Latency, and Tires that are Too Smart
Muse 54 - Interrupt Latency
Muse 53 - The Right Stuff - The Shuttle Software Team
Muse 52 - MISRA Review (Motor Industry Software Reliability Association)
Muse 51 - Write Only Memory Contest Results
Muse 50 - Failures of Embedded Systems
Muse 49 - Write Only Memory Contest!
Muse 48 - Embedded Books for Newbies
Muse 47 - Conspiracy Theory, part 2
Muse 46 - Conspiracy Theory
Muse 45 - Delayed Sweep
Muse 44 - File Format Central
Muse 43 - Even More Metastability
Muse 42 - More Metastability
Muse 41 - Metastability
Muse 40 - New Embedded Books
Muse 39 - Floating Point Approximations
Muse 38 - Embedded Systems Conference
Muse 37 - Book Review and Write only memory
Muse 36 - More jokes
Muse 35 - Embedded Book Review
Muse 34 - Programming sources on the net
Muse 33 - Programming sources on the net
Muse 32 - The trouble with open source (again!)
Muse 31 - The trouble with open source
Muse 30 - Engineering Insight
Muse 29 - Embedded Y2K
Muse 28 - Embedded Overload, and Tech Training
Muse 27 - Embedded Overload?
Muse 26 - Resources, and a Budding Programmer
Muse 25 - Peopleware
Muse 24 - E-newsletters and Decision Making
Muse 23 - More Hardware Helpers
Muse 22 - More Hardware Helpers
Muse 21 - Hardware Helpers
Muse 20 - Embedded History - Part 2
Muse 19 - Discipline? Bah Humbug!
Muse 18 - Embedded Rules of Thumb
Muse 17 - An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
Muse 16 - Embedded History - Part 1
Muse 15 - Dumb Mistakes - part 5, and Magic Delays
Muse 14 - Mars Pathfinder
Muse 13 - EC++
Muse 12 - Reuse? Bah Humbug!
Muse 11 - Dumb Mistakes and history article
Muse 10 - Dumb Mistakes and Windows CE
Muse 9 - Dumb Mistakes - part 5
Muse 8 - Interesting article, ESC Notes
Muse 7 - Dumb Mistakes - part 4
Muse 6 - Dumb Mistakes - part 3
Muse 5 - Dumb Mistakes - part 2
Muse 4 - Dumb Mistakes - part 1
Muse 3 - Mars Pathfinder
Muse 2 - The Engineering Mind
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