Tips and Tricks

HI-TECH Software's experienced software and technical support engineers have compiled a collection of articles to provide help and information on a variety of issues frequently encountered by our customers. This collection consists of useful Tips and Tricks to help you get the most out of your compilers.

For ease of navigation, articles are organized into the categories below:

 

Design Tips

• Give Your Project the Boot!
• Sharing Code Between Bootloader and Application
• Simplifying EEPROM

Design Tricks

• Neat Tricks for using HEXMATE

Tech Tips

• Beware the Buffer Overflow
• Optimizing Your Code for Speed
• Lets Pretend (How to fit a 'float' into a 'char[]'-shaped box... and get it out again!)
• It's Just Numbers, All the Way Down!
• Integer In, String Out
• My Interrupts Don't Work!

Tool Tips

• Rediscover What it Feels Like to Finish Ahead of Schedule!
• Maintaining Your Compiler

We endeavor to continually expand this collection. For suggestions on future additions, please don't hesitate to contact us.