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Addressing 3 key challenges of embedded Linux development with community

Mar 26, 2009 10:00AM EDT (15 years, 7 months ago)

Embedded Linux development is information intensive. It is a challenge to: * Locate information for your particular hardware and software * Validate that information for credibility and completeness * Adapt the information for your specific project Join Jonathan Corbet, editor LWN.net,...

Medical Safety Critical Design Patterns

Mar 25, 2009 11:00AM EDT (15 years, 7 months ago)

One of the most active areas in the research and practice of modern systems development is in the identification and reification of design patterns. A design pattern is a generalized solution to a commonly recurring problem. Although a number of books, as well as active newsgroups and websites, are...

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Embedded Multicore System Development Fundamentals

Mar 12, 2009 2:00PM EDT (15 years, 8 months ago)

For the programmer and system developer, this ecast offers a real-time look at multicore technology from the perspectives of a processor vendor, a virtual platform provider, an ESL solution provider, and an operating system and hypervisor software vendor. CoFluent Design, MIPS Technologies, Synops...

What Makes a Real Time OS Indispensable?

Mar 12, 2009 11:00AM EDT (15 years, 8 months ago)

There are features of an OS that feel intuitively right - small memory footprint, fine-grain-scalability, high performance and a flexible business model are good examples. In this session we look in detail at how to rationalize this intuition and how the selection of a real time OS can impact upon t...

Reduce Development Time with Advanced Military Display Systems for Deployed Environments

Jan 28, 2009 2:00PM EDT (15 years, 9 months ago)

Military and defense systems development brings together a challenging and unique blend of ruggedized platforms, reliable software, and sophisticated display and user input software. Whether the system is designed for intelligence gathering, strategic command, or communications, starting with a reli...

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Designing for Low Power: It's In Your Hands

Dec 17, 2008 2:00PM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

Does it seem like you're trapped between getting more out of a design, and how much battery power you have? It's a constant struggle for designers of handheld and mobile devices, who are pressing the limits on what can be done with software and processing power while still keeping devices very small...

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Turbo-charged Networking

Dec 16, 2008 2:00PM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

Performance and cost have always been critical metrics for evaluating networking equipment. Multicore silicon offers an opportunity to optimize both. By efficiently distributing networking functions across multiple cores, systems can realize greater throughput, smaller footprint, and lower costs tha...

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The Real Costs of Roll-Your-Own Linux Versus Commercial Linux

Dec 10, 2008 10:00AM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

Linux is the fastest-growing operating system for device development. Some striking advantages are its proven scalability and flexibility, and full source-code availability. Once you’ve chosen Linux, you still have a decision to make: Will you “roll your own (RYO)” Linux or use a commercial Linux so...

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Electronic Systems Level Design (ESL): The Prevailing Method Addressing the Rigors of Advanced Systems Design

Dec 09, 2008 2:00PM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

The challenge for EDA tool vendors in attacking electronic system level (ESL) design can be simply stated - provide the tools and methodologies that let system-on-chip (SoC) designers use abstract, system-level models to create implementation-ready (RTL) descriptions of their desired hardware. The...

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Migrating Legacy RTOS Device Drivers to Embedded Linux

Dec 09, 2008 7:00AM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

With the accelerating pace of application development and evermore compressed product life cycles, the ability to re-use and migrate legacy software to new platforms is paramount. Migrating from legacy RTOS-based designs to embedded Linux presents a range of engineering challenges, but also opportun...

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How to Achieve Uninterrupted Service and Automated Configuration Management of Your Carrier-Grade Network

Dec 02, 2008 12:00PM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

If you are involved in designing or developing carrier-grade network equipment, uninterrupted service and comprehensive network management are likely mission-critical requirements. This presentation will define how standards such as NETCONF and those published by the Service Availability Forum (SA F...

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SigmaNET: Pushing Exploitation Close to the Sensor

Nov 21, 2008 2:00PM EDT (15 years, 11 months ago)

The lack of timely and accurate access to sensor data negatively affects the warfighter every day. SigmaNETTM, from Mercury Computer Systems, is a combined hardware/software solution that addresses the data access issues by pushing exploitation close to the sensor, helping to deliver actionale inf...

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Multicore: A Look From Three Sides

Nov 13, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years ago)

For the application developer, this ecast offers a hands-on look at multicore technology from the viewpoint of a chip vendor, a systems vendor, and an operating system software vendor. What performance gains can be expected by implementing multicore right, both in hardware and software? How can mult...

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Net-centric warfare: How embedded tech collides with the digitized battlefield, Halo, and the Internet

Nov 12, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years ago)

The Fourth Wave of the Internet is upon us, with millions of new users joining the “inter-web” every year—and tens of millions of connected devices are sharing everything from simple keywords to location-aware “mash-up” concert databases. Web 2.0 apps like Twitter combined with an always-on BlackBe...

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It's a new car - full of embedded technology

Nov 06, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years ago)

The average new car now packs more electronics than the average living room. There are electronics systems for vehicle control, safety and regulatory compliance systems, driver assistance, networking, and infotainment – all depending heavily on embedded hardware and software to deliver a total exper...

Embedding LCDs into Designs

Nov 05, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years ago)

LCD displays are finding their way into many, many devices as a simple way to implement an operator interface. But the days of hard-to-interface raw LCDs are over - many microcontrollers are integrating with LCD drivers and touch screen capability, and software is making small displays more useful a...

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Technical overview of TI multicore solutions for high density applications

Nov 05, 2008 11:00AM EDT (16 years ago)

Join technologists from Texas Instruments (TI) and VirtualLogix (VL) as they discuss multicore solutions for high density applications, as well as TI's current portfolio and product roadmap for future solutions for high performance applications such as telecom infrastructure, high performance and em...

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Buckle Up For Safety: Developing Software for Mission- and Safety-Critical Systems

Oct 23, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years ago)

Getting it right is the most profoundly important matter confronting system and software developers of safety-critical applications such as space flight, avionics, and any life-critical equipment. There are no predictable or predetermined answers. This E-cast will provide crucial insights on how to...

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Designing with ARM

Oct 16, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years, 1 month ago)

The ARM architecture is the most widely used processor architecture in the world with new licensees signing up every month. Supporting this growth is the ARM Connected Community which forms a broad ecosystem to support designers using ARM cores. Mentor Graphics are at the forefront of the ARM Connec...

Providing a DO-178B Level A Software Programming Environment For The Boeing 787 Avionics Software

Sep 16, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years, 2 months ago)

AdaCore, Verocel, and Wind River Systems joined together as a team to provide a real-time embedded development platform, which is used as the basis for DO-178B Level A safety critical application development for the Boeing 787. Wind River Systems provided VxWorks 653, the common core ARINC-653 opera...

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Exploring the mechanical aspects of VPX

Sep 10, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years, 2 months ago)

VPX represents the future of VME. Eschewing the still-relevant 25 year old parallel bus backplane in favor of serial switched fabrics, VPX supports literally hundreds of user-defined I/O lines at speeds approaching 5 GHz. Also known as VITA 46, VPX has a companion specification called REDI (Ruggediz...

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OpenSystems Publishing 2009 Live Media Kit

Sep 09, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years, 2 months ago)

OpenSystems Publishing invites you to our annual Live Media Kit. The Live Media Kit is an interactive marketing tool essential for all marketing managers, executives, product marketing managers, PR and agencies. Here you will learn what coverage our editors are planning for 2009 including the unveil...

The hottest DSP and COTS Trends Powering Todayâ€™s Military Systems

Aug 27, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ever heard of "Ever heard of "Talking Radars" or ESA radars? Programmable digital down conversion? C4ISR? Software-defined radios? SIGINT or ELINT? You get the idea. It's hard to find any advanced military system that doesn't at some point rely on digital signal processing to fulfill the mission. I...

Rough, REDI, and now FPGAs

Jun 12, 2008 2:00PM EDT (16 years, 5 months ago)

By now you’ve heard of VXS – and maybe even VPX – but just what the heck do they all mean? After all, you’re still supporting systems with VME32, and “2eSST” sounds like a European supercar. Well, strap in, because serial fabric-enabled VME boards in VXS and VPX flavors are now available off-the-she...

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Ready for Take off: Using Advanced Development Technologies to Accelerate Deployment of Safe and Secure Systems

Jun 11, 2008 1:00PM EDT (16 years, 5 months ago)

Creation of Safe and Secure embedded systems imposes exacting challenges for the architecture, implementation, and cost. Industry leaders will provide information on the real-time tools, services and technologies needed to deliver devices requiring safety certification and/or multiple independent...

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