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Quit bugging me: surprise NaN!

You've got a complex system. There are dozens of tasks, a handful of interrupt routines. Your system runs fine, for hours or sometimes days on end. The loading on your system is...

15 years 10 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Induction

Working on a customer problem once, we had an interesting phenomena. Upgrading a system with a large VME cage and several boards, the customer replaced older processor boards with...

15 years 11 months ago

Targeting Your Assets

Embedded folks know that managing your target device is a key part of the development process. While you can do a lot on the host, the ‘rubber meets the road’ when you run your...

Carrier Grade Starts with Finding and Fixing Software Defects Before Deployment

Did you know 25% to 50% of deployed device failures are due tosoftware defects? This statistic should be nowhere near this high,considering there are a few very good solutions out...

The Software Managers’ Blind Spot....

I’m amazed at the consistency of input I’m getting from device software execs around the world about their lack of visibility into their testing process. Everybody is spending huge...

16 years 1 month ago

Runtime Technology Turning Heads in Device Test

When Wind River introduced Sensorpoint runtime instrumentationtechnology a few years ago it was well received as an enabler for theembedded device diagnostics process. Recently...

16 years 2 months ago

Software Certification

Iwonder why it is always the case that the period of time just beforeyear end is suddenly very hectic! There must be a universal law aboutthat, something like Murphy’s Law… Anyway...

18 years 6 months ago

Mitigating Risk

The phone rings. A customer has an application destined for ahigh-risk environment, and somewhere in test they’ve found a newunanticipated condition. A " Tiger Team"is formed – a...

18 years 6 months ago

Compliance vs Conformance?

What is the difference between compliance and conformanceand what does that mean to you and me? Or more importantly what does this meanto your project? Well, compliance is an...

18 years 7 months ago

Fault Injection

In his recent blog post, Maarten Koning writes about fault propagation paths.That is, faults happening in one place in the code propagating toaffect other parts of a system, indeed...

18 years 8 months ago