Attend this webinar to see why this technology is already mandated in multiple defense programs worldwide, and to understand why building interoperability into your systems architecture will enhance your position in future defense program bids.

Intelligent devices have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life. So much so, that we hardly even notice their presence anymore. From smartphones to GPS-equipped cars, we are surrounded by the “internet of things” than make our lives more convenient. But as we quickly adopt these gadgets, we are i...

The promise and potential of the smart grid leads energy providers on a path toward a more efficient, reliable, flexible and safe energy distribution system. However, providers face many challenges, including regulatory requirements and an aging energy delivery system. The main issues facing energy...

If you watch any car advertisement today there is a good chance that one of the “features” they are pushing is the IVI capabilities of the car! The consumer expectations today are such that a trip in their vehicle will isolate them from the outside world. Their connection to the world needs to be se...

Security defects that lead to exploitable vulnerabilities are often introduced during design and development either through in-house development, or outsourced and other 3rd party source code, including open source technology. The cost of fixing defects increases dramatically the longer they go unde...

Agile is a proven method for Information Technology (IT) software teams to deliver high quality software to satisfy stakeholders on time. Software teams pursue Agile because they need a method that can respond efficiently to change to the product under development. Software intensive and real-time &...

As Operational Technologies (OT) like embedded devices, control and monitoring systems are increasingly integrated with Information Technology (IT) systems running in the back office, interaction patterns between systems are becoming more complex and diverse. Publish-Subscribe is the most commonly u...

Embedded virtualization brings a new level of efficiency, flexibility, and security to the development of embedded devices. It enables developers to leverage multiple operating systems in a single device; it provides device and memory protection between virtual boards; and it makes it possible to co...

Mercury Computer introduces an Open VPX blade utilizing Freescale’s T4240 28nm QorIQ Power Architecture processor that provides 24 virtual cores and 12 AltiVec engines in a single SOC device. Freescale and Mercury will provide technical details of the processor and how Mercury utilizes the raw proce...

The world of enterprise infrastructure software is undergoing dramatic change. Driven by the need to improve efficiencies and optimize their businesses, companies that operate large, physical systems (sometimes called operational systems) at the operational edge are actively working to merge those s...

Moore’s law dictates that silicon performance will double every year and semiconductors have done a pretty good job at keep that pace. While the multi-core architecture revolutionized the way semiconductors keep pace with Moore’s law, legacy software inertia has been accelerating every time a new ge...

The use of location and device identifiers helps app developers deliver better service and marketing to its users. But, privacy considerations are critical when utilizing these elements. This webinar will explore how best to use location data and how to build the appropriate permission management fr...

Many safety-critical developers are wondering what the newly released DO-178C document means to them, their organizations and their internal processes. Presentations by George Romanski of Verocel and Joe Wlad, FAA DER and Senior Director at Wind River will give the audience useful information on wha...

Join QNX Software Systems and Freescale Semiconductor as we discuss threading models for creating multiple concurrent tasks and parallel processing on multicore chips. We’ll also explore design patterns for increasing parallelism (worker threads, peer threads, etc.) as well as techniques to optimize...

Cloud computing is the current industry trend. But what are the architectural advantages of hyperscale? And, in practice, how should a sysadmin best go about managing arrays of identical servers?

Next-generation Intel® Atom™ processors deliver unprecedented power efficiency, graphics performance, responsiveness, and connectivity enabling new products with groundbreaking intelligence and features.

VME just celebrated 30 years of excellence. But where is it headed next? Developers of the VMEbus specification have managed to provide new innovation that has kept pace with today's most current technology. For many years, developers have been able to utilize more bandwidth out of the parallel VMEb...

Safety certification of flight critical software is more important than ever as cockpit avionics systems become more complicated with every upgrade, adding millions upon millions of lines of code. The certification of these systems is becoming an increasingly costly and time consuming process, frust...

Now that the Android operating system has achieved widespread deployment in smartphones and tablets, the benefits are starting to look a lot more attractive for embedded devices of all kinds. The open development environment, the built-in features, the rapidly expanding Android Marketplace, and the...

Real-time connectivity is critical in the development of new medical devices. From integrating internal monitoring systems, to delivering real-time analysis and correlation of patient data to reducing patient errors -- application developers for both med devices and patient monitoring systems are fa...

As market requirements evolve there’s a growing need to move to advanced multicore microprocessors. There are many factors to consider when migrating to multicore including OS/RTOS, SMP or AMP modes, tool chains, and debug. In this webinar we’ll look at the underlying trends, challenges in migrating...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is transforming transportation, retail, medical, energy management, and other applications by connecting embedded devices to the Internet. The challenge for OEMs is dealing with the complex mix of M2M technologies, which include embedded hardware and software,...