While “programmer” and “software developer” are often used interchangeably, there are in fact some key differences between the two roles, especially in the AV control space. When we refer to AV ...

Programming Systems & Software Engineering research at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) focuses on improving the design, construction, and maintenance of software systems, ...

The AV industry is thriving with an abundance of exciting career opportunities for those interested in technology, and not everyone who enters the field undergoes specific training or education. As ...

IEC 61131-3, along with PLCopen extensions and support\, provides software standards essential for efficiently achieving competitive manufacturing—including implementing Industry 4.0, Industrial ...

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software. As usual in ...

The success of having software programmers work in pairs greatly depends on the ability level of those individual programmers, two professors have written in a recent article. The success of having ...

What is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and what does “real-time” mean anyway? What are the various kinds of state machines, and how to code them efficiently in C? What is object-oriented ...

Information Systems is an evolving scientific area of study that bridges the gap between business and computer science. Networks of computers extend human brainpower by creating modes of communication ...

In part one of this series, we looked at the PLC’s internal architecture, briefly discussed Ladder Logic programming, Human-Machine Interfaces, advantages of the PLC’s ability to react consistently ...

There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911 ...