White Paper: Guidelines for Designing Embedded Systems with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise for Embedded Systems gives you the full power of the Windows 10 Enterprise operating system for your embedded device, featuring the same security, productivity, reliability, and functionality as the binary-identical desktop version of Windows. This white paper provides gui... [read more]

White Paper: Managing Windows 10 IoT Devices

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

By choosing Windows 10, you can enable intelligent device capabilities to make a big impact. Windows 10 brings one converged Windows operating system that powers all of your Internet of Things (IoT) devices and provides an optimized platform for management, security, and application development.

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Overview

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Some features will require hardware that customers don't have today.

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT for Thin Clients

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Windows 10 IoT for Thin Clients

White Paper: Three Steps to Accelerating Your Migration from Windows Server 2003

Staff (Microsoft)

Take the first step on the path to modernizing your datacenter and minimizing the risks of maintaining legacy servers.

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is a full version of Windows 10 that powers a range of industry devices across retail, manufacturing, health, government and other industries.

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Core - Technical Overview

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Windows 10 IoT Core - You don't have to start from scratch. Scale investment across all Microsoft platforms.

White Paper: Windows 10 Industry Infographics

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Better Device Experiences with the Next Generation OS Windows 10

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Security

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Windows 10 IoT is that platform. Windows 10 IoT provides robust security capabilities to identities (both device identities and user identities), secure data, and secure connections. This paper will discuss key aspects of IoT security and how original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can create secure... [read more]

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Platform Overview

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

With Windows 10 IoT, Microsoft gives you the technology to make IoT real.

What distinguishes programming language "Ada" from its competition?

Sally Cole (Senior Editor)

"Ada" DoD-only programming language continues to evolve

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Deliver Enterprise-class devices optimized for industry line-of-business applications

White Paper: Finding Concurrency Errors with GrammaTech Static Analysis

Staff (GrammaTech)

Multithreading adds entirely new classes of potential bugs to those that must be considered by developers. At the same time, the nondeterminism and sheer number of possibilities introduced by thread interleaving make it significantly more difficult to find bugs in multithreaded systems by testing an... [read more]

White Paper: Seven fatal mistakes to avoid when choosing an embedded OS

Malte Mundt, Senior Field Application Engineer (QNX Software Systems)

How would you go about choosing an embedded Operating System (OS) for the next generation of your product? In this whitepaper we will make you aware of those pitfalls and shallows you ought to avoid when choosing an embedded OS, without drifting off into a lot of technical details.

White Paper: AXIS Software Development Tools

Staff (Abaco Systems)

Declare independence from your hardware and operating system.

White Paper: Cloud Optimize Your Business

Staff (Microsoft)

The way in which we do business has transformed in more ways than people can imagine. If you're on the IT side of the fence, you know that the hardware and software of today bears little resemblance to the platforms of just a few years ago. How do you stay on top of the technology? Microsoft has put... [read more]

White Paper: Limitless: How device manufacturers are building a new future with smart connected devices

Staff (Microsoft )

The Internet of Things (IoT) has split manufacturing businesses wide open, blurring the distinction between hardware and software and creating once in a lifetime opportunity for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). For OEMs who have experienced cost and commoditization pressures, the news could... [read more]

Turbocharge HPEC system design with HPC development tools

Tammy Carter (Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions)

As parallel programming grows in importance and popularity, the critical challenge has become how to intelligently manage, develop, and debug the increasingly complex code. Traditional tools such as trace analysis, serial debuggers, and the venerable "printf"statement just aren't up to the task. Alt... [read more]

Image-processing programming: Hope for non-nerds?

Charlotte Adams (Abaco Systems)

Today's armored-vehicle and helicopter operators can detect, assess, and act upon threats with the aid of devices such as helmet-mounted displays and heads-up displays. Thanks to image processing, ground-attack vehicle commanders soon will be able to enjoy a 360-degree "window" on their environments... [read more]

White Paper: Accelerating Product Innovation Through Agile Development and Continuous Engineering

Staff (IBM)

Software is driving an expanding percentage of embedded system value, fueling growth in code base. OEMs need to extend the Agile methodology.

White Paper: Software VS Hardware -- Machine Control: Cost and Performance Compared

Jerry Leitz (KINGSTAR by IntervalZero )

Let KINGSTAR show that the software-based servo performance is equivalent to or better than the DSP Solution, with a number of advantages compared to hardware at a very affordable price.

Portable, reliable, and efficient concurrency: Ravenscar Ada tasking and the FACE safety profiles

Dr. Benjamin Brosgol (AdaCore); Dr. Patrick Rogers (AdaCore ); Dr. Dudrey Smith (AdaCore)

Airborne systems that need a small footprint or must comply with an industry assurance standard such as DO-178B [1] or DO-178C [2] are sensitive to size and complexity costs in the run-time support libraries. To answer these needs, the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Technical Standar... [read more]

White Paper: High-Speed, Real-Time Recording Systems (Third Edition)

Rodger H. Hosking, Vice-President & Cofounder (Pentek, Inc.)

In today's world of high-speed A/D converters operating in the gigahertz range, real-time signal recording has become a challenging task that requires specialized hardware and intelligent application software. When designing a real-time recorder capable of streaming sustained data to disk at rates o... [read more]

Modernizing a serial processing code to obtain optimal performance on an OpenVPX digital signal processing module

Beau Paisley (Arm); Tammy Carter ( Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions)

Serial algorithms can be evolved to a scalable, multithreaded, multiprocess implementation using ubiquitous and well-established high-performance computing (HPC) programming frameworks such as OpenMP and MPI. Such techniques are used in compute-intensive defense, aerospace, and industrial applicatio... [read more]

Designing a 2 million-point frequency domain filter using OpenCL for FPGA

Dmitry Denisenko (Altera Corporation); Mykhailo Popryaga (Altera Corporation)

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is the backbone of signal processing applications. For a long time now, FPGA vendors have been providing well-tuned FFT libraries to process data sets that fit in FPGA on-chip memory. But what do you do if your data set is too large? To solve this problem, the FPGA desig... [read more]

Nanoscale "memristive" RF switches enable on-the-fly IC reconfiguration

Sally Cole (Senior Editor)

"Memristive" RF switches will help reconfigure a device to act as either a satellite receiver or a radar.

Avionics FACE lift

Charlotte Adams (Abaco Systems)

FACE looks not only at technology but also at issues such as intellectual property, conformance verification, military specs, and procurement requirements.

Cool power sensation

Charlotte Adams (Abaco Systems)

GPGPUs, hybrid chips originally developed for gaming are designed for improved power performance, fill a gap for military customers.

Seeking a unified hardware approach for IIoT control

Brandon Lewis (Technology Editor )

Although the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged in every market segment, its implementation varies widely. In the Industrial IoT (IIoT), for example, a much more robust, reliable set of technologies is required than in the consumer world. Here, technology standards organizations will play an impor... [read more]

5 steps to secure embedded software

Bill Dickenson (Strategy On The Web); Vijayakumar Kabbin (Wipro Technologies)

"When we do cybersecurity assessments, we get in almost every time. In our view, [the agencies] didn't need to wait until DOT&E found security issues, [the flaws] could have been found during software development." – Dr J. Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Office of the S... [read more]

Adding advanced server-management features to ATCA IPMCs

Mark Overgaard (Pentair Electronics Protection )

With substantial convergent forces pushing data center and network center functionality together, AdvancedTCA (ATCA) server blades can further strengthen their management credentials by adding advanced server-management facilities at the hardware platform management (HPM) level.

The road to achieving teraflop-scale computing in AdvancedTCA

Martijn de Gouw (Prodrive Technologies); Eric van Uden (Prodrive Technologies); Andre van Herk (Prodrive Technologies)

The proposal: Develop a high-performance machine vision design for use in an industrialized environment, requiring overall high availability and reliability. The challenge: To develop a high-density imaging platform that could scale up to multiple 42U racks.

SCA-based software-defined radios: Vision, reality, and current status

Lee Pucker (The Wireless Innovation Forum)

Software communications architecture is driving a second generation of SDR market adoption.