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The Role of Tools in Improving Embedded Software Security / Part 3: Mapping the Tools to Activities

In the previous posts in this series, Part 1: Automation is the Key and Part 2: Security Improvement and the Software Development Lifecycle , I talked about the connection between...

12 years 1 month ago

Test Management 5.0: Extending testing to Android, security and beyond

Today we announced the latest version of Wind River Test Management, which takes software test optimization to the next level. With this release, we have unified our testing...

12 years 2 months ago

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 2 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 3 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 3 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 4 months ago

The Role of Tools in Improving Embedded Software Security / Part 1: Automation is the Key

Security Vulnerabilities are Expensive Shipping security vulnerabilities in a finished product and having them discovered or worse, exploited, is a very expensive proposition for...

12 years 5 months ago

Inside a Synthetic Simulation Platform

Recently, we introduced a synthetic simulation-only Simics target machine called QSP (Quick-Start Platform) and it's included in the latest version of Wind River Simics. The idea...

12 years 5 months ago

You Will be Simulated - A Bit Quicker

We just released a new Simics feature, the QSP (Quick-Start Platform). This is a synthetic simulation-only Simics target machine that is included with the Simics base product. QSP...

12 years 5 months ago

Resistance is futile. You will be simulated!

Within our blog series, we frequently refer to functional simulation as a requisite to do things that aren't possible in the real world when working on a physical board and a cross...

12 years 5 months ago