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Precipice...

[Editorial by Mike] 5 years hard work 120 minutes great excitement (launch) 7 months boredom (cruise) 6 minutes of sheer terror (EDL) Ninety One Thousand+ days of exploration It...

18 years 5 months ago

Is safety-critical ready for multi-core?

You may feel that you’re experiencing déjà vu reading this blog, but the title ‘ Is safety-critical ready for multi-core?’ is different to an earlier blog, which was ‘ Is multi...

18 years 5 months ago

To Boldly Go...

Seen on SlashDot – did Viking miss signs of life on Mars? The science facts behind the SlashDot article support that idea. Remember – in 1976 scientists didn’t know a whole lot...

18 years 5 months ago

POSIX Profiles

Well, as work caught up with me I missed the Lisbon experience, but apparently it was raining there anyway – so it was just like home! As I mentioned profiles in my last blog, I...

18 years 5 months ago

One Thousand Days

This afternoon, Spirit Rover will start it’s 999th Sol (Martian Day) on Mars. Tomorrow will be Sol 1K. Next month, on the 14th/15th of November, Opportunity’s calendar will hit the...

18 years 6 months ago

Is multi-core ready for safety-critical?

I recently attended the Military & Aerospace Electronics conference in the UK, at which a number of technical presentations were given on new technologies relevant to this sector...

18 years 6 months ago

Distant Weather

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The infrared observatory revealed that the...

18 years 6 months ago

View from Above.

It’s not every day you can watch your work in action. It’s even less often that you get to watch your work watching your work in action. 🙂 Mars’ latest arrival takes picture of...

18 years 6 months ago

Software Componentization

Componentization is a seductive software development practice. Simply put, software componentization is when you break your software system down into smaller easily identifiable...

18 years 7 months ago

Tracking Down Floating Point Corruption

Recently a long-time customer of mine emailed me with a question. They were having anomalies when computing floating point values. Specifically, hardware would be read – values...

18 years 7 months ago