Raspberry Pi Pico is a cute piece of hardware. It has a powerful dual-core RP2040 microcontroller that offers 2MB (up to 16MB) Flash and 264K SRAM memories. But what truly sets the Pico apart is its ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

A common use case for high-level synthesis (HLS) is taking 3rd party generated or legacy C/C++ algorithms and converting the algorithm to a hardware implementation using an HLS compiler. This can ...

The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or other ...

Microsoft has released a new version of the C++ extension for its popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor. The new release is an official VS Code C++ extension for Windows 10 and Linux ...

Microsoft announced the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, graduating to version 1.0. Hitting that milestone was a long time in coming, as the tool in the ...

When we first heard Nim, we thought about the game. In this case, though, nim is a programming language. Sure, we need another programming language, right? But Nim is a bit different. It is not only ...

Semantic colorization was singled out by Microsoft for new functionality added to the July 2019 update of the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. The much-requested semantic colorization -- ...