5 Tips for Designing an Interface in C
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Five practical tips for designing clean, reusable software interfaces in C for embedded systems: use common naming conventions (e.g., Create/Destroy over Init/DeInit), limit interfaces to 10–12 functions to avoid bloat, use TDD to drive interface design, follow the open-closed principle to keep interfaces extendable, and use function pointer structs to achieve abstraction similar to C++ virtual methods — enabling hardware-agnostic application code across different microcontrollers like STM32 and MSP430.
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Tip #1 – Use common interface languageTip #2 – Limit the size of the interfaceTip #3 – Use TDD to specify the interfaceTip #4 – Make the interface extendableTip #5 – Abstract the interface when necessaryConclusions1 Impression