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Editor's Report
DDS Component Links Incompatible Network System Interfaces to Build Multisystem Applications
Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief
By now, the world is familiar with machine-to-machine (M2M) systems in which autonomous or semi-autonomous nodes communicate and share data over a dedicated network to operate as an intRead More...
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OpenVPX System Specification Standard Reaches ANSI Ratification The VMEbus Industry Trade Association (VITA), has announced the ratification by ANSI of the OpenVPX System SpecificRead More...
Technology Connected
Advanced Static Analysis: Evaluating Tools to Optimize ROI
by Paul Anderson, GrammaTech
Advanced static-analysis tools have become popular in recent years because they are capable of finding serious programming errors that might otherwise go undetected. Unlike conventionalRead More...
Time to Rethink Software Testing for Embedded Devices
Paul Henderson, Wind River
Whether they realize it yet or not, test teams and their software development colleagues at embedded product companies are headed for trouble—or are knee-deep in it already. ThereRead More...
Technology Deployed
Cost Reduction & Time-to-Market Drive Medical OEM Outsourcing of Embedded Computers
Erich Heikkila, Venture Development Corporation
When VDC Research Group surveyed 50 medical/healthcare OEMs for the medical module of its 2010 embedded hardware demand-side research in Q2 of 2010, the medical customers were asked aboRead More...
Medical Device Software: Why Has It Gone Code Red?
Bill StClair and Nat Hillary, LDRA
An FDA analysis of 3,140 medical device recalls conducted between 1992 and 1998 reveals that 79% of software-related recalls were caused by software defects introduced when changes wereRead More...
Ensuring Software Quality in Embedded Medical Devices
Elijah Kerry, National Instruments
The term “medical device” is used to refer to any item that treats, diagnoses, prevents or monitors patients. This ranges from simple stethoscopes, to teleoperated surgical Read More...
Embedded Technology Powers Healthcare Device Accessory to Improve Patient Ventilator Monitoring
Pete Dombrowski, Eurotech
The Engström Carestation is an expandable respiratory care station from GE Healthcare. Its design is intended to help satisfy clinicians’ need for accurate, timely data with Read More...
Technology in Context
Stackable Single Board Computers: Choosing between the Form Factors
Dr. Qi Chen, Adlink Technology
Implementation of an application’s embedded computing feature requirements can be done using two basic stackable modular design approaches: Single Board Computer (SBC) and ComputeRead More...
Technology in Systems
Java Tackles Multi-Core Complexity
Kelvin Nilsen, Atego Systems
As VLSI transistor densities continue to rise, microprocessor vendors are increasingly turning toward multicore architectures as the most effective utilization of available transistors.Read More...