I have a fairly lengthy new blog post at my Wind River blog. This time, I interview Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, a Canadian MSc student who have done some very smart things with Simics. His research is in IMA, Integrated Modular Avionics, and how to make that work on multicore.
Month: October 2010
Product Holes: Microsoft Office vs Internet Explorer
There seems to be no shortage of bugs that “should have been obvious” and subject to the “how can you not check that your own products work together” phenomenon. Just the other day, I stumbled on another one. This time, it was the Microsoft set of applications and operating systems that do not quite work together the way you would expect them to.
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Wind River Blog: “Virtual Basil Fawlty”
Last week, I posted a discussion about fault injection in virtual systems, using Basil Fawlty as the perfect example of a fault injection agent.
Interesting Blog: “Embedded in Academia”
I just found the blog of an old real-time researcher friend of mine, John Regehr at the University of Utah.
It is at http://blog.regehr.org/ and covers a range of embedded topics relevant to his academic research (which is more embedded that most).
Wind River Blog: Virtual vs Physical Systems
I have a post at my Wind River blog, about the difference between virtual and physical systems. The key idea is this:
Comparing virtual and physical systems is like comparing apples and apples, not apples and oranges: while apples are mostly interchangeable, they is certainly variation between them. Some apples are best for eating, some are better for making sauce, some are pie material, and some are best for fermenting cider. The type you select depends on what you want to cook. The difference between physical and virtual hardware is similar: they can be used as replacements for each other to some extent, but the connoisseur can make much better use of both by looking at the differences.
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