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Seven Minutes

This week, NASA hosted the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists in charge of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, for a pre-landing press conference . The landing...

12 years 10 months ago

Improving Embedded Operating System Security Part 4: Partition Systems to Protect Essential Components

An effective security technique is to separate different major components of a system into partitions. In some cases these partitions are physical, i.e., separate devices with...

13 years 2 months ago

Improving Embedded Operating System Security Part 3: Secure Your Network Communication

Many security issues with embedded systems stem from their connection via a network with access open to a large population (enterprise network) or even directly to the Internet...

13 years 3 months ago

Improving Embedded Operating System Security Part 2: Enable a More Secure Configuration

Despite the hype surrounding the state of embedded security, many of the runtime platforms that these systems are based on can be made more secure through proper configuration...

13 years 3 months ago

Improving Embedded Operating System Security

Security has quickly risen to the top of mind for embedded developers in the last year. Although the Stuxnet worm was a wake up call for the embedded industry, there have been...

13 years 3 months ago

Improving Embedded Security: Proper Runtime Selection

Selection of secure components for an embedded system is key to a secure system. Leveraging a secure RTOS, middleware, virtualization and tools significantly reduces the effort and...

13 years 7 months ago

In embedded systems, a lifetime is a long time

The recent news about the demise of the Mars Rover Spirit (Mike Deliman blogged about this last week) and comments about how it succeeded its mission many times over, got me...

Wind River Turns 30: Looking Back and Moving Forward

2011 marks Wind River’s 30th anniversary . The big 3-0…it’s a major landmark moment in anyone’s book. This year, we’ll be taking time to honor this milestone with a retrospective...

14 years 1 month ago

Scalability: the key to product line success

An important requirement for an RTOS such as VxWorks is scalability. What this really means is being usable in many different types of devices, from small memory constrained, low...

14 years 3 months ago

VxWorks 6.9: A foundation for Innovation

We just announced our latest major release of VxWorks 6.9 as the foundation for innovation in embedded software. What do we mean by this? There are two main aspects to this concept...

14 years 3 months ago