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Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration!

We have all seen reports, studies or have first hand experiences about projects falling apart. One of my favorite illustrations about this phenomenon is the well-known “tree swing...

13 years 7 months ago

Wind River Turns 30: Looking Back and Moving Forward

2011 marks Wind River’s 30th anniversary . The big 3-0…it’s a major landmark moment in anyone’s book. This year, we’ll be taking time to honor this milestone with a retrospective...

13 years 7 months ago

Kick-Starting the VxWorks 6.9 64-bit Port with Simics

Wind River just released the world's first 64-bit RTOS, Wind River VxWorks 6.9 for the 64-bit Intel x86 Architecture. This is a great achievement by the VxWorks team, and I am...

13 years 8 months ago

Integration and Testing the Integration

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released a deep report into last year's issue with " unintended acceleration " on certain Toyota cars. They...

13 years 9 months ago

Working Faster with Less (Simulated) Sweat

One very important property of a virtual platform like Simics is its speed of execution. Without sufficient execution speed, a virtual platform is not very useful – users want to...

13 years 9 months ago

Being Helpful or Simply Correct?

The other day, I spent some time getting a new operating system up on one of our Simics virtual platforms. The platform is stable, the hardware is shipping and it is being used...

13 years 10 months ago

What I am Reading: Processor and SoC Simulation

A new book about processor and system-on-chip simulation recently appeared. Edited by Professor Rainer Leupers and Professor Olivier Temam , it features chapters from a wide...

13 years 10 months ago

Shift Left

Whether developers or corporations use a formal development process or not, one of the most critical (and risky) milestones is to have access to the target hardware, on-time and on...

13 years 10 months ago

Iterative Hardware-Software Interface Design

Making good design decisions is hard, making bad decisions is easy. The best way to avoid really bad design is to actually work through how a certain design works in practice. One...

Sometimes, You Have to Cheat

In a virtual platform world, cheating is sometimes a good thing. One man's cheat is another man's optimization. Let's start with a story from the 1904 olympics in St Louis. In the...