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Busting the Myths around VxWorks #3: VxWorks and Memory Protection

A common misconception about VxWorks is that it doesn’t have memory protection. Other forms of this myth maybe that you can only program VxWorks with flat memory tasks and that it...

15 years 7 months ago

Ada & C mixed language development

Last week, I downloaded AdaCore's GNAT Pro 6.2.2 and the latest GNATbench 2.3.1 release (which was announced yesterday ), as I wanted to port an Ada & C mixed-language application...

15 years 7 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks #2: Support for Multicore

I’ve heard from our sales team that even our own customers are not aware of VxWorks' support for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP). SMP, for those not clear on the terminology is one...

15 years 7 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks: VxWorks isn’t dead!

I recently joined Wind River as product marketing manager for VxWorks and as an outsider and former competitor, I think there are many myths surrounding VxWorks that need to be...

15 years 8 months ago

Tornado GR4 Goes Extreme

In case you missed the news, our partner McObject has just announced that BAE SYSTEMS has selected the eXtreme DB running on VxWorks for the Tornado Advanced Radar Display...

15 years 8 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: ABI

What's in an ABI? An Application Binary Interface is a lot like a API – Applications Programming Interface, except instead of just telling you how to make a call, what parameters...

15 years 8 months ago

Planetary Forges

Interesting recent observations have been made by various space probes. Some that I find interesting from the past few weeks are from Stardust, Opportunity and Spitzer Space...

15 years 9 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

Serial Intent

Howdy out there, I realize this is a blog that’s supposed to be about real-time programming issues, and mostly I’ve posted about planetary and space based projects, with a few...

15 years 11 months ago

First Light, First Flight

Kepler Space Telescope recently had it's First Light images released! Just how many stars do you think Kepler is watching every day and night? This star in the circle is TrES2, a...

15 years 11 months ago