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Getting Shipped Products Fixed; Service and Repair is Not the Only Option

We intuitively know that defects in the field are much more expensive than those found in development. In fact, the difference is bigger than you think. If you find a bug in-house...

14 years 11 months ago

Sand Trap

Spirit Rover is heading to her sixth anniversary on Mars, but it looks like she'll have to sit the dance out. Spirit has been trapped, basically high-centered on a hard spot...

14 years 11 months ago

Meet Wind River at CES

ABI Research recently stated here that connected home devices are the “Next Big Thing” in the consumer electronics industry with a global market value growing by a compound average...

14 years 11 months ago

Case study: Ultra Datel Safety-Critical Avionics Upgrade Using COTS

I recently had the privilege of working with one of our partners, LDRA , and one of our customers, Ultra Datel , on writing a case study of their experiences of a mid-life upgrade...

In the Shadows of Giants

When I was a child, the Apollos were flying, and the whole world was all about Mankind taking those first steps on Lunar soil. I remember my parents had this record, I think it...

First flight of the Boeing 787

Today, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its historic first flight from Everett, Washington. This is the culmination of years of development of a completely new aircraft which uses...

Airbus A400M and Boeing 787 Dreamliner First Flight

Wow! What a week for our customers in Europe and USA! Last week saw the first flight of the Airbus A400M Military Transport and today the Boeing 787 Dreamliner took to the skies...

Article: Multi-Core Slow Down

An interesting article by Dan Woods on Multi-core slowdown . The article tries to temper people's expectations with regards to mArticle: Multi-Core Slow Downulticore. The basic...

The Rise to Dominance of NAND Flash

Flash memory is the dominant form of non-volatile memory for embedded systems and has been since the EEPROM days. I remember using an ultraviolet lamp to erase the old EPROMs...

M2M, the Buzzword

The one I am referring to is an abbreviation of Machine to Machine . It's simply a communication mechanism between machines or devices. The communication is done with minimal or no...

15 years 1 month ago