Embedded

MISRA C: Rules, Guidelines, and Compliance

In 1998, the UK’s Motor Industry Software Reliability Association established a set of 127 guidelines for the use of C in safety-critical systems. Here’s a look at the rules, what they mean, and how ...
Embedded

MISRA C: Write Safer, Clearer C Code

Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...
EDN

Automating rule sets for safety-critical HDL coding

During the development process for safety-critical designs, all precautions should be taken to prevent device failures from all foreseeable sources, including those due to poor design methods and ...
Electronic Design

Testing Out a Safe C Compiler

Why you want to use MISRA C. What support IAR Embedded Workbench and C-STAT has for MISRA C. Issues related to static analysis. In addition, there’s the CERT C/C++ Secure Coding Standard published by ...
EDN

Latest and Greatest Embedded C Coding Standard

BARR-C:2018 is fully harmonized with MISRA C:2012. Many firmware developers choose to combine bug-killing stylistic rules from the BARR-C standard with safety guidelines from MISRA C. BARR-C:2018 is ...