Eclipse CDT & Arduino Plug-In An alternative to the Arduino IDE is Eclipse, a development environment used by professional and hobby developers. It’s open-source software and extensible via plugins.

In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects.

That provides a professional development environment, at least. The code base for the Arduino is another frustration. Bluntly, the use of setup() and loop() with main() being hidden really bugs me.

Automatic code generation from system block diagramshas been around for decades and is an entrenched way ofdeveloping embedded control systems and performing hardware-in-the-loop testing at many ...