Articles & White Papers
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Diagnosing software problems while maintaining system availability
Software bugs lead to incorrect system behavior and low availability, and ultimately to unhappy customers. Conventional debugging methods can themselves interfere with the availability, performance, and behavior of the system. This article explores ...
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Exposing test coverage to achieve better software integration
Even when software development complies with best practices, the integration stage can often reveal latent bugs or, worse, hide them. As complexity escalates, finding bugs reliably demands a new approach to integration and validation, which is intro...
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How IC designs can be made easier to prototype
This article focuses on Chapter 9 of the FPMM (FPGA-based Prototyping Methodology Manual), which summarises how IC designs can be made easier to prototype, making prototyping even more valuable to the IC team.
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Simulating tough challenges with PXI
As technology progresses, test technologies must progress as well. Simultaneously test throughput must be increased and costs reduced. In many cases, the solution to these needs has been PXI.
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Open source software adoption process without any problems
In this article the author recommends eight steps to be followed in order to avoid license compliance problems.
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Managing risk in the Cloud
This article highlights how adopting Cloud computing offers benefits and may save money, but also considers the potential information security risks involved.
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Early verification of embedded control systems with model-based design
This article explains the various advantages of model-based design in early design stages, such as accelerating development, improving quality, and bringing significant cost savings.
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Why multi-core processors for embedded systems?
This article describes the advantages of multi-core processors for complex embedded systems as well as the requirements for multi-core software including operating systems.
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Application portability for multi-core packet processing becomes reality
Networks must support customers’ aspirations such as new developments in mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, meaning substantial increases in bandwidth demand. The infrastructure is evolving to suit, with the underlying requirement to han...
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How reliable is code coverage information shown in source code?
Code coverage measurement is recommended for certification in many avionic, medical, automotive and nuclear standards like DO-178B, etc. According to Beizer, 100% statement coverage at source code level might only cover 75% or fewer statements at ob...
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The debugger as a tool for testing software quality assurance
Debuggers were once used primarily to implement the programming principle “work through each newly written source code at least once in single-step”. But today highend debuggers in complex System-on-Chip (SoC) applications are increasingly used ...
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Quality assessment of real-time Linux
This article describes in detail the real-time capabilities and built-in testing features of Linux. It also explains the advantages that OSADL brings to the Linux community by testing real-time Linux exhaustively in the OSADL QA farm.
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Distributed RTOS for systems with scalable processing power
This article shows that global object networking techniques provide a path for industrial OEMs to migrate to multi-core processors while keeping their fundamental designs intact. That means OEMs will find it easier to adopt the new multi-core chips ...
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Embedded relational data management solution for industrial automation systems
A leading specialist for robotics-feeding systems selected ITTIA DB SQL to provide data management for their industrial automation and robotic systems. ITTIA DB SQL protects, organizes, and shares data between the many tasks and devices tha make up...
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Creating virtual platforms with Wind River Simics
Wind River Simics is a full system simulator used by systems and software developers to simulate the target hardware of everything from a single processor to large, complex, and connected electronic systems. Referred to as a virtual platform, it sim...
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Applying Bayesian belief networks to fault tree analysis
Fault tree analysis is especially applicable to a mature product where field usage figures and problem reports exist. Expressing the fault tree with a Bayesian belief network allows both hard and soft evidence to be incorporated quantifiably in the ...
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Thermal simulation moves beyond temperature predictions
This article examines the discipline of thermal simulation and highlights advances that promise to speed and simplify the thermal analysis work of every designer.
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The shortest path to embedded Linux deployment
Development from distributions vs. platform builders: The GNU/Linux operating system has a long history of dissemination in the form of “distributions” – aggregations of the Linux kernel, GNU libraries, utilities and tools, and selected other ...
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Embedded instruments enable systems test via JTAG interface
Many printed circuit boards are assembled with components whose pins cannot be accesed by regular instruments or test systems. This article shows the possibilities offered by embedded instruments for testing such printed circuit boards via a JTAG in...


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  • Virtual Conferences

    6th Smart Systems Integration 2012 (21 -22 March 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland)
    More than 70 presentations, 49 poster presentations as well as five keynote speeches from Honeywell, Empa, STMicroelectronics, Phonak Communications and the European Commission await delegates attending Smart Systems Integration 2012 from 21 – 22 March 2012 in Zurich. Top class speakers from well known organizations in science and industry will provide international experts with the latest information on the most recent developments, applications and trends. Early bird prices are available until 17 February 2012.

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    ARM®-based solutions from Texas Instruments
    Texas Instruments is producing more ARM-based solutions than any other manufacturer. In this Virtual Conference TI provides overview and outlook about its ARM-based Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and SoCs product range.

    Industrial Computing & Communications
    The 2012 version of our Virtual Conference Industrial Computing & Communications provides an update about latest trends, solutions and products to create reliable communications within industrial environments. Major topics are Chips & Solutions for Industrial Ethernet and Boards, Modules & Systems for Industrial Applications.

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    In this virtual event, you will learn about the Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) -- a new class of product  which combines an industry-standard ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system with Xilinx 28nm unified programmable logic. Xilinx and ARM will detail the architecture of the Zynq-7000 EPP and show how hardware and software teams can work concurrently while leveraging the extensibility of this processing platform.

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    Nowadays Safety & Security are important topics for many embedded systems. While the failure of safety-critical systems is likely to result in danger for human lives, the need for security is driven by increased connectivity, portability, and pervasive design of modern embedded systems.

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    Motors consume 50% of all electricity in industry. More and more critical in motor design, sophisticated electronic controls provide greater efficiency, finer speed and torque regulation, and better motor protection. This virtual conference will have a special focus on technologies and products to improve the energy efficiency.

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