By Jakob Engblom Simics 4.8 is now generally available for old and new users to enjoy. I will be doing a series of blog posts going into the details on what is new and improved in this release. Simics 4.8 represents a significant improvement in the Simics user interface and... Continue reading

By Franz Walkembach The Automotive group at Wind River is quite an impressive team…Consider this: hundreds of engineers and decades of successfully completed projects have helped Wind River carefully foster the development in this industry. We not only created trusted connections with customers and partners, but we’ve also stayed ahead... Continue reading

Windows file sharing has always felt a bit magical to me. I use it all the time, certainly, but I never quite understood how it worked; it was just this big chunk of Microsoft protocol that felt like it really did not want to talk to other types of operating systems. Sure, I have used the open-source "samba" server for a long time with great success… but it always seemed to suffer from issues with access rights (probably the fault of me and server setup and mixing Unix and Windows accounts, not a fault in the server itself). With this... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom Windows file sharing has always felt a bit magical to me. I use it all the time, certainly, but I never quite understood how it worked; it was just this big chunk of Microsoft protocol that felt like it really did not want to talk to other... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom How do you actually connect an integrated development environment or a debugger to a target system? This question is more complicated than it might seem to the uninitiated outsider. Traditionally, a range of protocols have been used to connect the development host to a target, most of... Continue reading

By Steve Konish In just three short months, the engineering team at Wind River has added new, amazing capabilities to the Wind River Intelligent Network Platform. These enhancements to the platform allow applications to go even deeper and faster than ever before. When we first launched the platform, it included... Continue reading

By Santhosh Nair The healthcare industry is embracing the 'Internet of Things.' From the advent of mHealth, to healthcare personnel bringing their own devices into the hospitals, to consolidations that are happening up and down the value chain, the healthcare industry is finally embracing its version of the Internet. It’s... Continue reading

By Santhosh Nair The healthcare industry is embracing the 'Internet of Things.' From the advent of mHealth, to healthcare personnel bringing their own devices into the hospitals, to consolidations that are happening up and down the value chain, the healthcare industry is finally embracing its version of the Internet. It’s... Continue reading

By Paul Parkinson It has been a rather long time since my previous blog post. I intended to post a blog before the holidays regarding our partner Curtiss-Wright's announcement about VxWorks MILS support on the VPX6-187, but I simply ran out of time! So here it is as my first... Continue reading

By Paul Parkinson It has been a rather long time since my previous blog post. I intended to post a blog before the holidays regarding our partner Curtiss-Wright's announcement about VxWorks MILS support on the VPX6-187, but I simply ran out of time! So here it is as my first... Continue reading

Late last year, I presented a one-hour webinar on how Simics lets you “resolve bugs in minutes instead of weeks.” Part of that webinar were two Simics demos that show Simics in action, from the first booting of a target system through loading software onto it and debugging a nasty crash in a server program. The webinar demos are now available as a single Youtube movie, on the Wind River Youtube channel. The target system used in the demo is a heterogeneous network of four machines. Two ARM-based and two PPC-based. Two of them are running a client application, and... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom Late last year, I presented a one-hour webinar on how Simics lets you “resolve bugs in minutes instead of weeks.” Part of that webinar were two Simics demos that show Simics in action, from the first booting of a target system through loading software onto it and... Continue reading

By Franz Walkembach It’s new, it’s here, and we have it! The GENIVI Alliance recently released its latest compliance specification GENIVI 3.0, and Wind River Platform for Infotainment was among the first to achieve it. Why should this matter? It’s all about trust, scalability and quality. GENIVI®, Autosar, Car Connectivity... Continue reading

By Brian Vezza With the end of the year around the corner, I've been thinking about what's to come on the machine-to-machine (M2M) front. Overall, I believe we’ll see a tremendous acceleration in the investment and adoption of M2M devices, systems, applications and services. This will be due to two... Continue reading

I often write and talk about how useful Simics is for debugging concurrency bugs and glitches in multithreaded and multicore systems. Recently, we had a case where we proved this on a very complex application, namely Simics itself. This nicely demonstrated both the recursive completeness of Simics, and its usefulness for conquering tricky bugs in complex software. The beginning of this story is a bug in Simics, triggered by a certain Simics configuration. The Simics target is a Power Architecture machine, running some bare-metal test code testing the processor simulation. Occasionally, this setup would crash Simics, due to some bug... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom I often write and talk about how useful Simics is for debugging concurrency bugs and glitches in multithreaded and multicore systems. Recently, we had a case where we proved this on a very complex application, namely Simics itself. This nicely demonstrated both the recursive completeness of Simics,... Continue reading

Full-system simulators like Simics provide unparalleled insight into what is going on in a target system. Indeed, better insight is one of the main features of simulation that we get regardless of what we simulate and how. In addition, if we want to, we can also exert control over the target system to make it take different execution paths than it otherwise would. Earlier this year, Ben Blum at Carnegie-Mellon University CMU presented a Master’s thesis that provides a very good example of just what can be achieved by combing the insight and control of a simulator with intelligence and... Continue reading

In a recent Simics seminar, I was asked about repeatability, variability, determinism and Simics. This is a question that comes up almost every time I present about Simics in front of an audience with testing experience. The people asking the question intuitively think that determinism is a bad thing - since it sounds like it will limit the execution scenarios that will be explored in testing. For a tester, variation is a good thing. However, determinism is not in conflict with variation. And I think I found a perfect illustration of this in a setting that is a bit more... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom In a recent Simics seminar, I was asked about repeatability, variability, determinism and Simics. This is a question that comes up almost every time I present about Simics in front of an audience with testing experience. The people asking the question intuitively think that determinism is a... Continue reading

By Michel Genard The American general election is over. Pundits providing postmortem analysis will continue to generate a ton of studies. Let’s examine one aspect of the election that has already generated some interesting ink. This article in Time Magazine mentions how analytic teams tried to predict election results, even... Continue reading

By Steve Konish If you’re an information junkie like I am, informative charts and polls always catch the eye. Polls are great for capturing an instant snapshot of public opinion on a specific topic. By no means are they scientific. However, they do give us some useful data to gauge... Continue reading

By Bill Graham In the previous posts in this series, Part 1: Automation is the Key and Part 2: Security Improvement and the Software Development Lifecycle, I talked about the connection between the typical embedded device development process and the 5+1 improvement framework for embedded security. Figure 1 is an... Continue reading

By Stephen Konish A few minutes…and you’re on the fast path to building the next generation of faster, smarter and more secure network applications. Three minutes – that’s all it typically takes to install key components of the new Wind River Intelligent Network Platform. So, let’s take the next few... Continue reading

By Jeff Fortin A recent study published by GAO caused quite a bit of uproar over medical device security. The GAO declared in its report [read more] that the FDA has not put enough oversight in the premarket approval (PMA) of certain medical devices that are susceptible to threats. In... Continue reading

By Ido Sarig Today we announced the latest version of Wind River Test Management, which takes software test optimization to the next level. With this release, we have unified our testing solutions for VxWorks, Linux and Android under one umbrella. All the capabilities of Wind River Framework for Automated Software... Continue reading