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Systematically Exposing OS Kernel Races – An Interview with Ben Blum

Full-system simulators like Simics provide unparalleled insight into what is going on in a target system. Indeed, better insight is one of the main features of simulation that we...

12 years 6 months ago

Guest Blog: Qt Commercial 4.8.3 Released with Official Support for VxWorks

This week, together with the Qt Project, Digia released version 4.8.3 of Qt Commercial. Developed together with Wind River, it now includes official support for VxWorks, Wind River...

12 years 7 months ago

Analyzing Manycore Scaling with Simics

In my previous blog post on multicore scaling investigations with Simics , I tested a simple parallel program on a variety of machines. The scaling obtained was not particularly...

12 years 7 months ago

Simplifying M2M

Today, Wind River is taking a significant step forward in simplifying machine-to-machine (M2M) development for our customers. We announced the Wind River Intelligent Device...

12 years 7 months ago

First Line of Defense

Designing security into a device requires an understanding of the nature of the attacker. The cost of security implementation, including acquiring the technology carrying out the...

12 years 7 months ago

Wind River Linux and the Yocto Project…Sowing the seeds of change

The year was 1998, I was walking through the aisles of a book store on campus at the Politecnico of Milano and a box of software caught my eye. It looked unconventional, sort of...

12 years 7 months ago

Testing Manycore Scaling with Simics

A few years ago, I did a Simics demo where I tested the scalability of a multithreaded program as the target hardware went from two to four to eight cores. Unfortunately, I could...

12 years 7 months ago

The Role of Tools in Improving Embedded Software Security / Part 2: Security Improvement and the Software Development Lifecycle

In many of my previous posts , I’ve discussed Wind River's 5+1 step improvement framework for embedded device security. By design, it’s meant to complement the software development...

12 years 8 months ago

MSL: How Big Is It?

I’ve been asked here and there “Just how big is this MSL thing?” It’s a question I can give several answers to, depending on what the asker means. In physical terms, you could ride...

12 years 8 months ago

The Yocto Project: What It Is and What It Isn't

As I work heavily with embedded Linux on a daily basis, I’m often asked about the Yocto Project . While the Yocto Project is gaining traction and folks in the industry are...

12 years 8 months ago