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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 becoming cost & time prohibitive.

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.

The automotive environment is a challenging mix of entertainment, safety, and reliability. But challenges dont stop with the car itself.

Intels 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, todays 4th generation Intel Core product family enables a dramatic performance advantage for embedded systems developers.

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 systems footprint and streamlining integration, support, and maintenance.

With Microsofts 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 organizations ability to meet compliance requirements including Payment Card Industry (PCI) and HIPAA.

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.

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.

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.

Todays 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.

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 increasing pressure to deliver their more complex products faster than ever before while managing new requirements and regulations along the supply chain.

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 requirements.

In todays world of e-commerce, M2M, and cloud services, its 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 software, and third party or open source software.

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.

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. These upgrades will introduce more complex and sophisticated avionics, which will require expensive and time-consuming safety and security certification.