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Making Multicore CPUs Work in Embedded Communications Designs

A good article by Jarrod Siket highlighting the need for a good heterogenous multicore design to be able to meet the need of embedded communications systems. I couldn't agree more...

Primary Multicore Software Configurations

Many people ask the question as to what the best approach would be for them to go to multicore and/or virtualization. This is a great question to start a discussion as there is not...

What Exactly are You Testing, and How?

"What exactly are you testing? How are you testing it?" I'm sure that these are amongst the questions that product, business, and technical managers across the embedded software...

A&D Regional Conferences

I've recently finished updating presentations on The Essentials of Multicore Software and Challenges of Security Software Development for our forthcoming Aerospace & Defence...

Busting the Myths around VxWorks #6: Safety

Software safety is related to many factors but I think the impression that an operating system is unreliable conjures up the perception it is unsafe as well. I’ve spent time in...

G.hn, does it get the crown for in-home networking?

The new buzzword in wired networking is G.hn , pronounced as "G dot hn". I know, it does add another word to the alphabet soup of technologies, but I do think that it solves a...

Busting the Myths Around VxWorks #5: Security

In reality this isn’t a myth, it’s more of an awareness problem. Our solution for the need for high robustness systems is the VxWorks MILS product. VxWorks MILS is designed to...

Addressing Core Issues

A good article from colleague Jens Wiegand on multicore in medical devices . Jens talks about consolidation and innovation, two driving factors in both medical and industrial...

Quit Bugging Me: Memory Leak!

A perennial question arises… "Did I find a memory leak in the shell? See what it does?" This question naturally arises after a customer has been debugging a while, and runs short...

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Busting the Myths around VxWorks #4: VxWorks reliability

I don’t think we are promoting the reliability of our products well enough. In particular, a key attribute and value of VxWorks is its reliability. Being a newcomer to Wind River...

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