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Rendezvous with a Rock

MESSENGER spacecraft is approaching it's rendezvous with Mercury. After flying for over 2400 days, in a little over 24 hours (from writing this) MESSENGER will maneuver into orbit...

14 years 3 months ago

Remarkable

"Space… the final frontier" is how the pre-recorded message from NASA to the crew of Discovery started this morning. This afternoon while covering the final departure of Discovery...

14 years 3 months 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: Pushing the Limits on System Flexibility

As you may already be aware, Wind River just released the latest version of our flagship real time OS offering, VxWorks. We worked hard to make sure that our customers can rely on...

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

The Dawn of a Paradigm Shift in Embedded Device Software Security

The number of connected embedded and mobile devices is increasing exponentially, predicted to be in excess of 50 billion by 2020. The lion’s share of this growth is expected to...

14 years 4 months ago

Autonomy and Robotic Advancement

A few months ago at the Robotics Virtual Trade Show, in my presentation I spoke about the evolution of robotic systems. One thing I predicted was as time goes on, robots will...

14 years 4 months ago

Safety-Critical Systems Symposium 2011

I'm looking forward to the 19th annual Safety-Critical Systems Symposium which is being held in held in the UK next week. The conference programme covers a range of subjects...

14 years 4 months ago

Unsuspecting Benefit of Virtualization

I came across an article the other day that was discussing forthcoming innovations in the automation industry. The article discusses how Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous for...

14 years 4 months ago

Embedded Virtualization Opens New Possibilities

One of the things that stands out in many customer visits that I do is that embedded virtualization often enables possibilities that the customer never thought possible. This of...

14 years 5 months ago