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Article: Multi-Core Slow Down

An interesting article by Dan Woods on Multi-core slowdown. The article tries to temper people's expectations with regards to mArticle: Multi-Core Slow Downulticore. The basic...

15 years 8 months ago

The Rise to Dominance of NAND Flash

Flash memory is the dominant form of non-volatile memory forembedded systems and has been since the EEPROM days. I remember usingan ultraviolet lamp to erase the old EPROMs, those...

15 years 8 months ago

M2M, the Buzzword

The one I am referring to is an abbreviation of Machine to Machine. It'ssimply a communication mechanism between machines or devices. Thecommunication is done with minimal or no...

15 years 8 months ago

Bit Rot Amnesia

Spirit Rover has been having a number of problems recently, anomalous behaviors, losing contact with Earth, even forgetting commands. Amnesia has been one of the larger concerns...

15 years 8 months ago

Twenty

In 1989 I got my first "real" job, left an auto shop I'd beenworking at in Santa Cruz, and started working for a pre-tech-bubblecompany. Integrated made VME racks, boxes from the...

15 years 8 months ago

Primary Multicore Software Configurations

Many people ask the question as to what the best approach would be forthem to go to multicore and/or virtualization. This is a great questionto start a discussion as there is not a...

15 years 9 months ago

What Exactly are You Testing, and How?

"What exactly are you testing? How are you testing it?" I'msure that these are amongst the questions that product, business, andtechnical managers across the embedded software...

15 years 9 months ago

A&D Regional Conferences

I've recently finished updating presentations on The Essentials of Multicore Software and Challenges of Security Software Development for our forthcoming Aerospace & Defence...

15 years 9 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks #6: Safety

Software safety is related to many factors but I think the impression that an operating system is unreliable conjures up the perception it is unsafe as well. I’ve spent time in...

15 years 9 months ago

Busting the Myths Around VxWorks #5: Security

In reality this isn’t a myth, it’s more of an awarenessproblem. Our solution for the need for high robustness systems is theVxWorksMILS product. VxWorks MILS is designed to provide...

15 years 9 months ago