In this post we will walk through the new Visual Studio Code Embedded Tools extension. We'll show how to acquire embedded tool dependencies with vcpkg then edit, build, deploy, and debug an Azure RTOS ThreadX project highlighting the new peripheral register…

Introducing Qt WebEngine in Qt 6

Bringing out the big SIMD guns, for x86 at least.

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In this session, you’ll learn how to take advantage of VS Code’s new debugging capabilities and discover easy ways to boost your C++ development productivity along the way.

We’ll get a simple embedded…

The third CMake 2.23 release candidate!

Kitware is pleased to announce release of ActiViz 9.1. While benefiting from all the features of the latest VTK release, this version focuses on building platform-specific packages which can be run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. ActiViz now takes full advantage…

As computational power grows stronger, pipelines also grow more complex : being able to understand a workflow and change it easily can become a real challenge. A few decades ago software such as Blender introduced a new way of visualizing and editing such…

For our last trick, we’ll ARM-ify this simple function to darken a bitmap. union Pixel { uint8_t c[4]; // four channels: red, green, blue, alpha uint32_t v; // full pixel value as a 32-bit integer }; void darken(Pixel* first, Pixel* last,

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Code size of embedded application has been a concern for a very long time. While storage becomes cheaper and smaller, developers find creative ways to increase code size by adding features or unnecessary…

An example how one might optimize Oklab color space gradients by… not doing anything related to Oklab itself!

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The `noexcept` operator, in concert with the `noexcept` specifier, allows generic code to choose a more efficient algorithm for types that have nonthrowing move and swap operations. These two C++11…

This week I got the opportunity to chat with Rob and Jason about the open letters to the C++ committee I wrote on CppCast. The letters propose to expand the scope of the C++ standards work to include the ecosystem of tools and related technologies.

After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the title of the next one, ...

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In this talk we will overview one of the most fundamental and useful abilities of C++: Resource Acquisition Is Initialization. We'll start with an overview of "what is a resource" and understand…