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ARINC 653 Partition Jitter & Scalability

Last week, I was looking at a customer’s avionics softwarearchitecture to determine whether it might be possible to migrate thisto an ARINC 653-based Integrated Modular Avionics...

Pointy Haired Boss: Open Source Software is Free!

Today’s Dilbert says it all. There are far too many "free as in open, not free as in beer" blog posts for me to rehash this is great detail ( wikipedia, my post). But this comic...

18 years 1 month ago

Test as you... surprise!

There’s an old adage in the world of flight – space flight, or otherwise. "Test as you fly, fly as you test." It’s pretty short and sweet and straight-forward. Don’t fly what you...

18 years 6 months ago

RTLinux acquisition from FSMLabs

I was really pleased to see the news about Wind River’s acquisition of RTLinux hard real-time Linux (ZDnet) from FSMLabs. Linux is already starting to be used in certain types of...

18 years 6 months ago

Red Hat is NOT Carrier-Grade Linux

There was a very interesting announcement yesterday from Red Hat regarding a collaboration with Nokia for carrier grade server systems. The most interesting thing I noticed about...

18 years 10 months ago

Compliance vs Conformance?

What is the difference between compliance and conformanceand what does that mean to you and me? Or more importantly what does this meanto your project? Well, compliance is an...

18 years 10 months ago

Shared Source and Windows CE

I read with some excitement Microsoft’s recent announcement of their shared source release of Windows CE 6.0. Microsoft has clearly recognized what many RTOS companies have...

18 years 10 months ago

MS taking some pain out of WinCE?

Microsoft has released WinCE 6.0 – this time as a " shared source"release, with various enhancements. Some of the big claims-to-fame:It’s the "first commercial hard real-time OS...

18 years 10 months ago

Does it have a motor?

Back in the 80s there was a car commercial, where a small crowd ofdoubters are looking over a neighbor’s new car. Amongst the commentsand questions about the options that make a...

18 years 11 months ago

Why engineers are "immune" to marketing messages...

On Friday, I read Rob McCammon’s blog entry titled The Right Requirements Plus Good Advice Result in Better Solutions Faster. The message is " don’t simply trust requirements...

18 years 11 months ago