Wind River Blog | Wind River

Wind River Blog

Improving Embedded Operating System Security Part 2: Enable a More Secure Configuration

Despite the hype surrounding the state of embedded security, many of the runtime platforms that these systems are based on can be made more secure through proper configuration...

12 years 8 months ago

IEC 62304, EN 62304...Confused?

The requirements of IEC 62304 and EN 62304 are identical. Both, IEC 62304 and EN 62304, share the same genealogy and are well recognized software life cycle standards. The only...

12 years 8 months ago

Improving Embedded Operating System Security

Security has quickly risen to the top of mind for embedded developers in the last year. Although the Stuxnet worm was a wake up call for the embedded industry, there have been...

12 years 8 months ago

The Future of the World ‘Wired’ Mind?

I never thought neurophysiology could be made so interesting – or blended with philosophy for that matter – but this is what author Michael Chorost does in his book World Wide Mind...

12 years 9 months ago

Beyond the Smart Grid: Intelligent Energy

This past week I was at DistribuTECH 2012 and was able to see firsthand how companies supplying to the energy market are responding to Smart Grid requirements and adapting to the...

12 years 9 months ago

Network Performance Front & Center Everywhere: How Will the Networking Industry Respond?

The need for network performance rang loud and clear at CES 2012. The way things are shaping up, the networking industry is in for an exciting 2012. Every year, in early January...

12 years 9 months ago

Detecting security problems – using static analysis to catch them early and less expensively

In my previous post I discussed the potential benefits in quality and costs that static analysis brings to software development. In addition to common coding errors, many of the...

12 years 10 months ago

Using Static Analysis to Improve Product Quality, Earlier and Cheaper

Fixing bugs is expensive. Fixing bugs is more expensive the later you leave them, in fact, its been shown to cost a magnitude higher with each major phase of development. The...

12 years 10 months ago

Making a Faulty Serial Port

As noted before , one common use case for Simics is doing fault injection. Fault injection is typically added to an existing system without changing it, since the goal is to...

12 years 10 months ago

Android Security – making sense of all the choices

Last week’s public release of the Security Enhanced (SE) Android project and associated source code is hailed by many as an important foundational step to add a new set of options...

12 years 10 months ago