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Open source in Medical Devices: Part of the Cure or Part of the Disease?

The Economist recently published a very interesting article on the merits of open source in medical device development, which raises some questions and sparks an important...

12 years 6 months ago

Teaching Networking using Simics

Wind River Education Services provides user training for a variety of topics, including Wind River operating systems and tools, as well as more general topics like networking...

12 years 6 months ago

Diab Compiler Adding Support for new Infineon TriCore AURIX Microcontrollers

Infineon Technologies recently announced their next generation family of 32-bit TriCore™ microcontrollers for automotive applications. The new architecture is called AURIX™ ( AU...

12 years 7 months ago

Forcing Rare Bugs to Appear - an Interview with Tingting Yu

One use of Simics that has always been fascinating is to use the power you have over the target to somehow force error conditions in software. The hardware state control inherent...

12 years 7 months ago

Getting Code Coverage with LDRA Tools on Simics

A system development tool like Simics is rarely used completely on its own. Simics is usually brought in by companies and development teams who are already using a variety of tools...

12 years 8 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

Introducing Performance Studio

What is Performance Studio ? Is it: 1. Some kind of hair product 2. A new "clinic" for MLB players 3. Full name: : Wind River Linux Performance Studio for Intel® Architecture; a...

Hacking Insulin Pumps for Fun and Profit

Last month, I had the opportunity to take part in the Amphion Medical Forum in Minneapolis, where the theme was security challenges facing Medical devices. Amphion is a forum that...