Secure software design depends on six key strategies. Wind River just published an article that explains these strategies and provides advice on how to implement them, citing practical applications of Wind River VxWorks, Wind River Hypervisor, and the 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor family.     For more articles like this, subscribe to the Embedded Innovator . Subscribers receive a bi-annual magazine and quarterly newsletter with the latest industry trends and des...Read More

As multi-core processors become an integral part of the embedded landscape, designers of real-time systems are looking for the best way to take advantage of the improved performance and flexible architecture while minimizing software rework. Designers want to incorporate multi-core architecture to boost performance through parallel processing and to minimize hardware costs by combining platforms. Because of the long life cycle of many embedded applications, designers must also interact with mul...Read More

At the Intel Developer Forum in September 2011, 6WIND announced support for the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (see the press release here ). Since that time, we have provided expert technical support to a number of OEMs using the Intel® DPDK library to develop high-end networking, telecom and security products.   As many readers of this blog will know, the Intel® DPDK is a set of data plane libraries and optimized NIC drivers, licensed by Intel for incorporation either ...Read More

As designers transition to the latest generation multicore processors, software must be divided into separate partitions to gain the performance benefits of parallel execution.  With Intel® Core™ processors, developers have access to multiple techniques to enable this performance gain including symmetric or asymmetric multiprocessing and virtualization. In the symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configuration, a single operating system allocates threads or tasks across the available...Read More

Embedded apps for Android are easy to develop, with some of the simpler ones completed in a few short hours - some claim minutes. Android is a dynamically configured software environment, but application software is isolated from lower level Android hardware platform functionality by virtue of the Java language definition and the use of predefined APIs and libraries. Android uses XML as part of the language environment and relies on logical and physical isolation between applications. The built...Read More

M2M applications can be overwhelmingly complex and difficult to deploy. ILS Technology has just written an article explaining how a new kit simplifies matters by integrating client hardware and software, cloud services, enterprise integration, and more. With this kit, cloud connectivity is possible in a matter of hours and production deployment in a matter of weeks.   For more articles like this, subscribe to the Embedded Innovator . Subscribers receive a bi-annual magazine and quarterl...Read More

According to Personal Computer industry-watchers like IDC-Gartner, general purpose PCs are declining in sales year-on-year, but are being more than made up by the growth of small form factor computers including  tablet PCs, smartphones, and purpose-built hand-held embedded systems.  Systems that were once the domain of science fiction writers have become commonplace in an increasing number of embedded applications like consumer-quality, digitally-compensated microphones, smart self-ca...Read More