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

Most embedded devices are updated over time to accommodate new technology and customer demands. As Eurotech explains in its latest article , these changes are easier to deal with when you base your design on a flexible software framework. This article looks at a framework that uses standards-based interfaces to simplify coding as well as porting between Intel® Atom™ processor-based systems.   For more articles like this, subscribe to the Embedded Innovator . Subscribers receiv...Read More

Real world signals are the basis for stimulus and response for embedded systems. Without real world signal interfaces, embedded processors would have a shortage of applications. Much attention has been paid to high data rate sensors, but the sensor continuum includes data rates that span a wide range. Most real world signals, unlike digital signals, are continuous in nature. Continuous (analog) signals can be processed by linear components as part of a control system, digital processing carries...Read More