FSMLabs is making its way through the DO178 requirements and we’ve given a lot of thought to Common Criteria over the last couple years. One
Read moreAbove all, the SUSPENSE: Wind River’s DSO with Robert Mitchum and hippies! (updated)
I’ve been meaning to write about DSO – WindRiver’s attempt to define synthetic “standards” (see the linuxdevices article for technical detail and a more serious
Read moreThe long haul in the embedded software business.
Chris Lanfear from VDC systems asks FSMLabs has the product line, but lacks the market presence and awareness that other companies have invested in with
Read morePriority Inheritance: Hack or Error
The subject of priority inheritance has come up again on the Linux kernel mailing list and Torvalds correctly notes “Friends don’t let friends use priority
Read moreComparing VXworks to RTLinux
A couple of years ago, one of our salesmen asked us to comment on a comparison between VxWorks and RTLinux performance that had a prospective
Read moreHandbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems
You can find an article on writing real-time control loops in RTLinux inside the giant Hristu-Varsakelis, Levine Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control. The article
Read moreProving Operating Systems Correct:#8
One of the longstanding problems with operating systems is that there is no way to validate their correctness in the same way that engineers can
Read moreThe romance of trade and fuzzy slippers
Commerce used to be more fashionable. The French historian Fernand Braudel writes that in the 1630s “ten ships a year from the Indian ocean, from
Read moreRTLinux easy but RT hard.
I wrote a chapter for an academic book recently and the publisher sent me a “copyright assignment” form ( don’t even start) that asked me,
Read moreEmbedded productivity and engineering skills
I was at some trade show wandering around with a cynic who was pointing out that every booth advertised productivity improvements. How many improvements we’ve
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