Montavista f-f-fades away

November 10th, 2009  ()  marketing, software business › admin › No Comments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – 11/10/09) – Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:CAVM – News), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, wireless, storage and video applications, today announced that it is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MontaVista Software for $50 million, comprised of approximately $16 million in cash [...]

Deterministic multithreading

August 10th, 2009  ()  embedded systems, operating systems, software engineering, software security, specification › admin › No Comments

An interesting paper appearing in ASPLOS proceedings provides a “deterministic” locking method
Kendo enforces a deterministic interleaving of lock acquisitions and specially declared non-protected reads through a novel dynamically load-balanced deterministic scheduling algorithm. The algorithm tracks the progress of each thread using performance counters to construct a deterministic logical time that is used to compute an [...]

Wind River purchased by Intel

June 5th, 2009  ()  embedded systems, handset, intellectual property, marketing, operating systems, software business, software engineering › admin › 1 Comment

If anything, Wind River’s inability to breakout, despite a once Microsoft-like position of dominance, is a by-product of their failure to meaningfully go “up the stack” and away from their historical focus on the silicon layer as a primary differentiation point.
In other words, if Wind River had enabled the next generation of Cisco and Apple [...]