Jerry Gipper —

Given that high-performance processor designers have hit the wall on power consumption, moving to multiple core processors is the most practical way to continue improving processor performance while maintaining a manageable power budget.

Hermann Strass —

The Z8 Airport Crash Tender fire engine is based on an 8 x 8 chassis with a V12 diesel engine delivering 1,000 metric horsepower and has nozzles for spraying water and foam to defend itself against approaching fire.

Staff —

Spotlight on the Multicore Association, RapidIO Trade Association, and Open Handset Alliance.

Staff —

Processor developers cannot always take advantage of multicore processors without understanding the impact on existing code.

Bill Graham, Paul N. Leroux and Todd Landry —

How developers can combine static and runtime analysis to prevent regressions as a product matures; a two-pronged approach which helps to eliminate most problems early in the development cycle, when they cost least to fix.

Ole N. Oest —

Developers facing migration will need to carefully consider the type and extent of system changes to compare the benefits of in-house activity with design service support.

Stephen Ramponi —

As global R&D models become part of several organizations' engineering strategies, managers are beginning to discover the nuances of offshore operations.

Paul Zawalnyski —

The Compact Computer was the outcome of a customer requirement, although at the time the customer did not know it.

Fakhir Ansari —

A gradual yet revolutionary change is transforming the way multimedia is used in software applications today.

David Melski, PhD —

Machine code analysis offers a way to assess third-party code, even when the source is unavailable.

Troy Kitch and Joe Green —

The litmus test for truly valuable tools is whether or not they assist developers to enable the right features within a product's short life cycle.

Don Dingee —

As interfaces in consumer electronics devices and networks have become more sophisticated, testing platforms have responded with better solutions.

Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director —

The upcoming months will present economic challenges to companies in the embedded computing industry.

Hermann Strass, European Representative —

Like a cherry picker crane, ERA will transport cosmonauts to the position where they work or from one external location to another, saving time and effort during space walks.

Staff —

Spotlight on the Khronos Group, CompactFlash Association, and USB Implementers Forum

Staff —

Boundary-scan tools enable accurate testing and high-speed in-system programming for densely packed PCBs.

Staff —

The latest kDiagnostics™ Manufacturing Suite offering from Kozio allows engineers to create automated processes that dramatically reduce the cost of testing products by increasing fault coverage and throughput while minimizing test development efforts.

Glenn Seiler —

This paper discusses the maturation of Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and how open source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions are gaining ground by providing a strategic advantage in the telecommunications industry.

Joe Spinozzi —

Data can be like gold to today’s manufacturing and engineering companies, some of which are unwittingly sitting on a mine waiting to be tapped.

Jerry Gipper —

As applications continue to grow in complexity, the OS suppliers are racing each other to supply the best solutions.

Don Dingee —

We have an inside joke among the editors here at OpenSystems Publishing: "If a form factor isn't five years old, it's not ready."

Jack Regula —

Anyone who has been in the electronic systems business for an appreciable amount of time has seen several paradigm shifts in the way systems are designed, interconnected, and debugged.

Jerry Gipper —

Every year the innovation behind Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) seems to make great strides forward.

Kevin Belnap —

Addressing the microcontroller needs of the portable medical space is a challenge for semiconductor companies.

Don Dingee —

Test and measurement instruments have gotten smarter, easier to use, more capable, and more stylish.

Hermann Strass —

Traditional burner management technologies separate the control and safety electronics, making systems complicated and difficult to troubleshoot.

Staff —

Given the constantly proliferating volume of available video, wouldn't it be great if a single device could handle all the necessary formats?

Staff —

News from the SPIRIT Consortium, Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP), and the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI).

Gwyn Fisher —

Learn how recent innovations in source code analysis technology can now enable developers to accurately detect critical bugs and security vulnerabilities in mission-critical software right at their desktop.

Kerry Johnson —

Migrating code to multi-core processors has become a major design decision for embedded developers.

Caroline Alexander —

How to Eliminate Concurrency Defects with Static Analysis

Michael Barabanov —

Wind River Real-Time Core for Linux enables hard real-time response for various applications. The industry considers this technology one of the best, most mature hard real-time Linux solutions available today. Real-Time Core includes a hard real-time executive that coexists with the Wind River Linux kernel.

Alex deVries —

Embedded systems often have multiple components with sufficient complexity to require independent development teams. The use of layers system. Vital to the Wind River Linux platforms and the Wind River Linux build system is the use of layers for embedded system development. Layers reduce integration efforts by allowing developers to maintain excellent isolation between components. Layers make it easy to locate and review all the changes you (or others) have made and also share changes, saving developers time and effort.

Jan Liband —

Comparing and Contrasting Two Distinct Technologies for Managing Data in Embedded Applications

Wind River Systems, Inc. —

Debugging embedded Linux products has traditionally required a mixture of hardware and software tools—JTAG tools for hardware bring-up and agent-based solutions for software development. These JTAG- and agent-based tools often solved point problems but were not designed for integrated Linux development.