Articles by Cardinal Peak Staff

In my last post, I talked about resource management, and how RAII, Resource Acquisition is Initialization, is important in C++ because of the guarantees it provides. In this post, I’ll show how we can make the same guarantees in C. In C++, RAII provides a solution to resource management and the issues arising with exceptions.... View Article

Explore RAII: a powerful C++ programming idiom for resource management. Learn how it ensures exception safety, prevents leaks, and can be applied in C.

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Cardinal Peak announced it is now approved as an Alexa Voice Service Solution Provider. Cardinal's experience helping one of our clients launch a product using the Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit allowed us to work closely with the team at Amazon and more intimately understand the benefits of building Alexa into devices.

Discover how smart design choices can ease embedded software development. Learn layered architecture, modular implementation, and effective testing for smoother projects!

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent is a massive and fast-growing event. Estimates for this year’s attendance range between 40,000 and 50,000 people, and it was sold out nearly two weeks before the first day. This year there are over 1000 breakout sessions covering a dozen or more tracks, as well as workshops, certification classes, hands-on labs,... View Article

We recently completed a really cool project with our friends at iZotope. For those who have never picked up a guitar and dreamed of being the next Tom Petty, iZotope designs award-winning audio products and technologies for musicians, music producers and audio post engineers around the world. In a nutshell, they develop the software that... View Article

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Cardinal Peak, a full-service engineering firm specializing in the development of Internet of Things (IoT) products, provided hardware engineering expertise to iZotope for their Spire Studio product. Spire Studio is used by musicians as a complete portable recording system, featuring professional sound quality and one-touch set-up.

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Cardinal Peak, an engineering design services firm specializing in the development of Internet of Things (IoT) products, and Culligan International, a leading water treatment company, announced the recent completion of the first release of the Culligan Connect mobile application.

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Cardinal Peak, an engineering services firm that helps customers design and bring Internet of Things (IoT) products to market, today announced they will be working with Fujitsu General to launch the FGLair mobile application.

Cardinal Peak works with a range of medical devices and technologies and is increasingly engaged in IoT initiatives for major healthcare companies. We have built ultrasound systems, surgical device energy generators, Fitbit-like health monitors, medical information memory cards, and RFID tagging systems for configuring and tracking medical devices.

Cardinal Peak hardware engineers, Matt Brzezinski and Whit Goodrich hosted the Hardware is Hard session at Denver Startup Week 2017. They discussed some of the most prevalent issues in hardware development today.

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Cardinal Peak, an engineering services firm that helps customers design and bring Internet of Things and video/audio products to market, today announced the company has appointed Mark Carrington as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Howdy Pierce, Cardinal Peak's co-founder and current CEO will continue to serve as chairman.