A discussion of the planning and development of safety-critical embedded systems as well as the incorporation of redundancy schemes into safety-critical applications.

It is important to remember that all codecs have their upsides and downsides. In considering any single algorithm for use the system architect must be aware of all factors and also that it is unlikely that any one codec will be completely ideal for its intended application. Limitations on the bandwidth of any network being used are a very important consideration.

In order to get some real world metrics for compression quality versus file size for each of the codecs, a test setup was created to encode various types of material at different compression rates, such that the resultant files could be examined for both size and video quality after being decompressed.

This white paper has been written to examine two of the more popular video codec technologies, MPEG-4 Part 10 (also known as Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and ITU-T H.264) and JPEG2000.

This solution overview provides a brief look at how Integrity, a PTC product (formerly MKS Integrity) reduces the effort in Risk Management for Medical Device Engineering companies.

Learn how by providing organizations with the ability to reduce the overwhelming complexity of developing software intensive products removes barriers which ultimately drives more innovative products into the market and help overcome the most commonly reported challenges in the Medical Device Industry.

Software is an opportunity for innovation and differentiation — but also a source of risk that can broadly and deeply affect the success of the entire organization as the software defines the experience of the customers.

This complexity will only continue to grow as an example — automobiles in the near future, will require 200 to 300 million lines of software code. To add to the complexity, development of a single product may involve coordinating teams in different locations and time zones.

The only way to achieve this control and collaboration is through the use of a coherent software system lifecycle management solution like Integrity, a PTC product.

This video demonstrates how the MKS Integrity solution for Medical Devices, enables engineering organizations to improve software and product quality, automate risk management, efficiently demonstrate compliance and reduce time to market and development costs. With MKS Integrity, engineering teams can:

* Demonstrate compliance in minutes with automated report generation rather than the weeks required with manual processes

* Manage the volume and velocity of software driven change

* Improve team orchestration and reuse design and development artifacts

Annapolis Micro Systems product demonstration by Vice President of Sales Patrick Stover. Annapolis Micro Systems is the leader in COTS FPGA-based high performance computing board level products. Among Annapolis’ leading computing products are the CoreFire and Wildstar family of products.

Reconfigurable Computing uses Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as attached processing elements in a computing system, in order to dramatically increase the processing speed. Annapolis Micro Systems’ products include support for:
–Bus Options: VME, PCI, CompactPCI, PMC and PCMCIA;
–I/O options: Dual 1.5 / 2.3 GSps DAC, Dual 1.5 GHz A/D, 1/5 GHz A/D Pro, 1.5 GHz A/D, Quad 105 MHz A/D, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, Quad Fibre Channel 2, WILDSTAR Data Port (WSDP), FPDP, Fiber Optic GLINK, 80 MH A/D, Race and Race++ and others.

Annapolis Micro Systems is committed to helping its customers achieve their goals, with new CoreFire Design Suite, API and drivers, libraries, training classes, custom application development, and hourly support.

The company’s international customer base includes government labs, prime contractors, small companies, and universities.

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. was founded in May 1982 to provide electronic R&D and product design, custom hardware, software and systems design and manufacturing.

As an electronic design company, Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. invented and developed a variety of electronic products for customers, such as IBM, Schlumberger, Alcatel Data Networks, Ericsson-GE, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the US. Government.

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. has earned a reputation for excellence in the areas of custom XILINX FPGA Design, system design, application development, ASIC design, complex printed circuit board design, surface mount assembly, and customer support.

Visit Annapolis at www.annapmicro.com

Video demonstration created by OpenSystems Media, www.opensystemsmedia.com and Vance Studios Productions.

When working on projects with large codebases that re-use components, it can be hard to identify which projects and products are affected by defects in shared code. How do you understand the impact of defects in your shared components? How do you analyze and prioritize the defects in your shared components so you know what to fix first, or not at all? How do you effectively track defect status and history across shared code?

Attend this webcast and you will learn five steps you can take to make the process of finding and fixing defects across shared code more efficient to increase developer productivity and reduce the risk of a schedule slip.

In this 30 minutes session you will learn:
• How to effectively scan your software to identify hard to spot defects in shared code
• How to identify which projects and products are impacted by defects to prioritize which defects should be fixed first
• What actions and best practices are needed to ensure the necessary fixes are implemented to prevent defects from entering the field

Gain insight into how to successfully overcome strict compliance and testing requirements, and increasing demand for increasingly complex functionality with Coverity software integrity products for organizations with zero tolerance policies for software failures and security breaches. Results summarized alongside Deloitte, VDC Research, and other studies.

Nucleus Graphics Designer incorporates a customizable and extensible menu-driven user interface framework for use on any electronic device with a graphical display. Designs may be created, tested, and iteratively refined with minimal engineering impact since all aspects of the user interface can be modified without any changes to the underlying application code. This product demonstration shows how Nucleus Graphics Designer makes this possible.