Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program managers want their intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) payloads to see further at lower weight and in more compact packages than previous designs. Multi-mission payloads involving radar, signals intelligence, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, an...

Reliability concern of Flash Products is getting serious since Flash doesn't equal to magnetic mass storage. Comparing with HDD, SSD has ultra-high performance. However, limited Program/Erase cycles, read cycles and data retention are additional risks customers and engineers have to deal with. ATP...

DoD budget pressures and time-to-deployment pressures are seriously challenging the current paradigm of bus-board based approach for sensor equipment development. The prime contractors are finding that to assemble, integrate, develop and test bus-boards based design for complex sensor systems are b...

GE, Cisco, AT&T, Intel and IBM recently established the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) at the Object Management Group (OMG) standards body. OMG is the world's largest system software standards organization, responsible for the UML modeling language and DDS data-centric middleware standards. At...

The automotive environment is a challenging mix of entertainment, safety, and reliability. But challenges don’t stop with the car itself. Advances in highway infrastructure and sensor technology are enabling a safer, more automated travel while reducing accident risk and driver distractions. In resp...

Intel’s tick-tock cadence of innovation and processor improvement continually drives embedded advances in performance, power, graphics, security and form factor. Building on the technical achievements of previous processor generations, today’s 4th generation Intel® Core™ product family enables a dr...

New virtualization technologies are giving developers an opportunity to reduce the cost and complexity of industrial automation. Using multicore processors, developers can combine previously discrete subsystems into a single computing unit, thereby reducing the system’s footprint and streamlining in...

With Microsoft’s announcement of the end of life of Windows XP on April 8, 2014, various embedded systems may be at risk. Leaving these systems unpatched and unprotected not only poses a risk to your business, but also may impact security posture, and your organization’s ability to meet compliance r...

Recent innovations in image sensor and display technologies have impacted many application areas. Many of the same technologies are being used in consumer, automotive, and industrial applications. Mobile devices (i.e., smart phones, tablets and wearables) now dominate the R&D investment and consumpt...

Infotainment and electronic vehicle systems have seen a dramatic increase in complexity creating several software and systems safety and development challenges. The ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard is a critical compliance element for addressing these challenges. It’s critical to have...

In this webinar, learn how a safety-certifiable implementation of DDS can reduce certification costs of your project by at least $2 million. We will also discuss testability of distributed systems, how to avoid sources of non-determinism, design alternatives to reliable communication, and more. The...

Today’s emerging IoT, Wearable and Smart Analogue designs are seen to be extremely complex to design due to the mixed signal aspect of the device. It is a common belief that creating such a mixed signal design with an embedded CPU, flash, analogue, and radio is very hard to do. Please join ARM an...

The unmanned systems market is one the fastest growing segments of the military industry and promises to have an even greater impact in the commercial world as the FAA begins to open its skies to drones. With such tremendous growth embedded software designers of unmanned systems are faced with incre...

Learn how to use Polyspace to meet DO-178 requirements, and achieve zero runtime errors in your most critical embedded software. Find out how engineers are using Polyspace static analysis tools to check for standards compliance, find difficult coding bugs, prove robustness, and meet DO-178 requireme...

In today’s world of e-commerce, M2M, and cloud services, it’s critical for development and operational processes to embrace and account for these trends or risk failure. Development processes for telecommunications typically include a mix of information and data models, internally developed softwar...

The Do It Yourself (DIY) craze started with techy hobbyists building robotics and sensor equipment with low cost, but high tech, platforms. The availability of these DIY platforms has exploded due to the very low cost of entry and software/operating systems that support these platforms. There are si...

The current budget-constrained environment in the Department of Defense is forcing many manned aircraft platforms to operate longer than their original planners intended often requiring continued refresh of their avionics hardware and software, which means more opportunities for avionics upgrades. T...

Whether you are in defense, medical, energy, avionics, unmanned systems, air-traffic control, automotive or financial trading, this webinar will provide applicable information on the major new innovations in Connext DDS v5.1. It will illustrate how you can leverage these features to build smarter a...

I/O handling and inter-partition communication present challenges to developers of safety-critical avionics systems and software. One particular challenge involves managing the volatility of data handling on typical avionics programs. Even though a given software function may remain unchanged from o...

Today’s SoCs (Systems-On-Chip) are taking full advantage of multi-core to achieve much higher performance while still maintaining a reasonable power budget. But this trend brings with it some interesting software architecture challenges.

Smartphones and tablets are indispensable personal devices these days. Flash memory is critical in ensuring an optimal user experience across all of these devices. Now a new breed of “wearable” devices promises to keep users connected with their favorite electronics and personal data cloud whenever...

The next wave of the Internet will connect machines and devices together into functioning, intelligent systems. This “Internet of Things” (IoT) will change every industry, every job, and every home. How will it impact medicine? When? This webinar will reveal how the Internet of Things is changing...

The Internet of Things is a general term used to describe billions of interconnected devices providing data and processing information. Starting with the big picture is daunting and makes deriving requirements for connectivity, communications, management, and security difficult. The IoT open access...

Gaining the tactical edge on the battlefield is becoming less about troop and tank deployments but more about who has the smartest sensors, best electronic warfare (EW) techniques, and the most accurate radar systems. As the U.S. defense budget shrinks and the military reduces its global footprint...