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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...

17 years 9 months ago

Eclipse Summit Europe: Embedded and Mobile Symposium

Eclipse Summit Europe is fast approaching (9-11 October). This intimate and fun Eclipse conference starts off with a number of symposia that follow a format designed to focus...

17 years 10 months ago

Announcing the VPP Project

Earlier this year, I attended a workshop sponsored by ECSI ( European Electronic Chips & Systems design Initiative) on the proliferation of SystemOnChip debug standards.My purpose...

17 years 10 months ago

Big Software and Mistreated Customers

It’s tough to be a customer sometimes, especially inthe world of software. Lately, I’ve really felt like a mistreatedcustomer as I use Microsoft Vista. Yes, it’s my own fault for...

17 years 10 months ago

Matterhorn helicopter flight

I’ve always wanted to go on a helicopter flight since my brother told me about his trip in a UK Royal Navy Agusta Westland Lynx, an amazingly agile helicopter, which still holds...

17 years 10 months ago

Mars Update

Though we haven’t seen a lot of Mars in the news lately, for thosewho keep track, the past couple of months have been somewhatstressful. A sandstorm started on Mars over a month...

17 years 10 months ago

The Price of Homogeneity

Today I installed a newer version the defect managementsoftware I use for the commercial half of my job. Let’s call thissoftware Transparent Expedition or TE 7.0 to protect...

17 years 10 months ago

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...

17 years 11 months ago

Rovers in dusty peril?

After more than 1234 days in service, after surviving the extremecold of Martian winter, the rovers may be facing their toughestchallenge: summer dust storms. I live out in the...

17 years 11 months ago

Up from the Ashes...

July 4th 1997 NASA did something spectacular: demonstrated a bunch ofnew technologies and delivered a space craft to the surface of anotherplanet. Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars...

17 years 11 months ago