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Being Helpful or Simply Correct?

The other day, I spent some time getting a new operating system up on one of our Simics virtual platforms. The platform is stable, the hardware is shipping and it is being used...

14 years 4 months ago

What the LA Lakers and Apple iPhone can teach us about software engineering

Half way into the 2010-2011 NBA basketball season, the Pacific division leading LA Lakers had an embarrassing loss to the bottom-dwelling Memphis Grizzlies. The LA Times described...

14 years 4 months ago

Shift Left

Whether developers or corporations use a formal development process or not, one of the most critical (and risky) milestones is to have access to the target hardware, on-time and on...

14 years 5 months ago

Testing? That’s what customers are for!

Many years ago, circa 1990, as I was starting out my professional career as a software developer with Mercury Interactive, I went on a customer call to a Silicon Valley-based...

14 years 5 months ago

Low-cost Android phones: Feature phones an endangered species?

There is no doubt that there will always be a set of consumers that only want their mobile phone to be, well, a phone. Voice calling is likely to remain the ‘killer app’ for the...

14 years 6 months ago

COTS in Space: Enter The Dragon

Congratulations to Space Exploration Technologies Inc, on their successful venture into orbit. By launching the Dragon into orbit, successfully orbiting the earth more than once...

14 years 6 months ago

Debug, multicore, and more debug

I recently gave a talk at an industry-academia collaboration called ICES, Innovative Center for Embedded Systems, at KTH in Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. The theme was embedded...

14 years 6 months ago

Embedded Virtualization in Gaming

A few weeks ago I found myself in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. My reason for being there was a seminar that Wind River was organizing together with Intel and AVNET...

14 years 7 months ago

Embedded Virtualization and Multi-Core

VDC has released a recent report showing that multi-core is making fast inroads in embedded systems and we are seeing that at Wind River as well. There are exciting new...

14 years 8 months ago

National Cybersecurity Strategy

On Monday, the UK government published its new national security strategy (PDF). This outlines the current and emerging security threats to the UK national interests, ranked by...

14 years 8 months ago