Category: Software

Software

  • A Vote for Java

    I don’t know this for sure, but I can imagine that some marketing folks at STMicroelectronics were less than thrilled by the high-profile Java issues…

  • Detecting Intuitive

    A little over a year ago I went on a bit of a rant about intuitive design. Now… for those of you running for the…

  • 2012 Camel

    A few weeks back, in Camels Have Their Role in Life I wrote about ADA https://dev.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20120919-camels/. At the time I said that “within the next…

  • Breker Tests Multicore

    Earlier this year we were introduced to Breker, a company that generates C tests for stressing SoC architectures and verifying that things work even with…

  • MIPS Gets a New Home

    Hey, wanna buy a CPU company? You’re too late, because MIPS Technologies was just sold for $60 million in cash. If that’s more than you…

  • Precipitating Out of the Cloud

    Today we took a look at Vector Fabric’s new Pareon tool for parallelizing embedded code, and one of the things that makes it different from…

  • Intentionally Fuzzy

    All software has bugs; every system has some kind of vulnerability. And the canonical way of dealing with them is to fix the bugs or…

  • Windows RT: Not So Hot for Tablets

    By now you’re heard about Microsoft’s big splash into the tablet market with Surface. CEO Steve Ballmer showed off two versions: one with an x86…

  • Another Tool in the Cloud

    We saw recently that Protecode added an online capability for a quick audit of software on a one-off basis. It involves upload by a user,…

  • Virtualizer and HAPS Shake Hands

    Numerous systems tend to get used for verifying SoCs, and, with software now in the picture, the range is extended even further. We’ve talked before…