By Santhosh Nair Today we introduced the latest version of our software platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) – Wind River Intelligent Device Platform (IDP). IDP is targeted at gateways and hubs, providing connectivity, manageability, security and intelligence that enables companies to kick start building applications that will monitor,... Continue reading

The market opportunities around the Internet of Things (IoT) are substantial for Intel, McAfee, Wind River, along with their ecosystem and the industry at large. But in a practical sense, how should businesses approach IoT? How can they start optimizing their processes and how do they ensure security? I recently... Continue reading

By Jessica Schieve If you haven’t yet noticed, a network transformation is underway and moving at record pace. Over the past 18 months, the industry has pushed the concepts of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization to the forefront of our consciousness. These ideas represent new approaches to... Continue reading

By Franz Walkembach A revolution is taking place behind the scenes of car manufacturers’ closed doors. Software is taking center stage in the creation of a differentiated driving experience. It is a sea change from this traditionally hardware dominant world. According to a recent report from ABI Research, it’s expected... Continue reading

By Bill Graham Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are having to become increasingly sophisticated – they must satisfy performance demands, offer hard real-time response and handle memory constraints, but increasingly they also need to deliver capabilities demanded by the new, highly connected, security conscious, remotely managed world of machine to machine... Continue reading

By Bill Graham Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are having to become increasingly sophisticated – they must satisfy performance demands, offer hard real-time response and handle memory constraints, but increasingly they also need to deliver capabilities demanded by the new, highly connected, security conscious, remotely managed world of machine to machine... Continue reading

By Stephen Olson I am astounded at the transformation of the user interface in recent history. The latest trends including facial recognition for authentication, gester technology both visually and with accelerometers in the device to describe a symbol to the device for authentication. But each time these innovations come about,... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom This week, at the Intel Development Forum in San Francisco, we are announcing the upcoming availability of UEFI support in the Simics source code debugger. It is thus a good time to talk a bit more about UEFI and UEFI debug. UEFI is the modern BIOS standard that is finally starting to replace classic BIOS in PCs and related machines. It provides for much more powerful and modular BIOSes, as well as secure booting and other important modern firmware features. For quite a few years now, Intel reference BIOSes for new platforms (like Crystal Forest, Tunnel Creek,... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom This week, at the Intel Development Forum in San Francisco, we are announcing the upcoming availability of UEFI support in the Simics source code debugger. It is thus a good time to talk a bit more about UEFI and UEFI debug. UEFI is the modern BIOS standard... Continue reading

By Jessica Schieve Wind River Intelligent Network Platform just won the Top Embedded Innovation Award of 2013 from Embedded Computing Design magazine. Wind River Intelligent Network Platform, a high performance data plane solution for packet acceleration and deep packet inspection, is able to provide the right combination of innovation that... Continue reading

By Mike Deliman Today NASA is hosting a telecast program commemorating Curiosity’s first anniversary on Mars. I’m watching this right now, One Year On Mars. One year ago we achieved something incredible. We landed a one metric ton “gizmo” on the surface of another planet. We returned to Mars, this... Continue reading

By Mike Deliman Ten years ago NASA launched a pair of robots into space. Those robots began a journey of discovery that helped change our models of how a specific planet evolved over the past billion years…Mars. Among the discoveries made, was a deposit of clay-like material, which can only... Continue reading

By Jens Wiegand The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming not only businesses, but also our lives. The ability of intelligent devices to perceive and respond to the environment around them makes them incredibly valuable for complex decision-making in a broad range of industries. The growth potential is explosive: billions... Continue reading

Simics reverse execution and reverse debugging is a very powerful feature of the simulator. In this blog post and accompanying video, we will look at what exactly it is you can do with reverse execution in Simics. It is not just a matter of running backwards to a breakpoint or stepping instructions (pick up my 2012 S4D article for more on reverse debugging). Reverse execution fundamentally is about undoing arbitrary operations on the target and going back to a prior state from a previous point in time. Furthermore, with Simics, you can go back in time and choose to do... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom Simics reverse execution and reverse debugging is a unique and very powerful feature of the simulator. In this blog post and accompanying video, we will look at what exactly it is you can do with reverse execution in Simics. It is not just a matter of running... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom  Having worked with Simics for more than a decade, it is easy to get blind to the obvious. To me, starting a Simics simulation is a trivial thing that I do many times per day. However, to a newcomer to the product, it is not so... Continue reading

Having worked with Simics for more than a decade, it is easy to get blind to the obvious. To me, starting a Simics simulation is a trivial thing that I do many times per day. However, to a newcomer to the product, it is not so obvious, and it might even seem a bit daunting. It is not daunting, and it is not difficult, as shown in this video on YouTube. As can be seen in the video, we start Simics sessions by invoking a target setup script or opening a checkpoint. This can be done from Eclipse, from a... Continue reading

By Gareth Noyes Trends seem to have a life of their own, especially in technology. Clusters of thoughts and ideas converge to re-frame an idea or define something completely new and then buzzwords are born. But before they reach critical mass and gain widespread acceptance, they often go through painful... Continue reading

By Jessica Schieve Wind River recently conducted a webinar on the topic of network transformation and the growing trend around building greater intelligence. The webinar discussed the results of a survey we commissioned through Light Reading exploring the different facets of network intelligence: packet acceleration, content inspection, flow analysis and... Continue reading

As we said in the first blog post on Simics 4.8, a really big new feature is the System Editor function. The system editor combines two functions into a single view, both the exploration of an existing target as well as the modification and even construction of a new target from existing pieces. A demo video is available on the Wind River channel on Youtube, and read on for more information on how it works. The basic view that the System Editor provides is the Simics component hierarchy of a target system. The components are used to organize a target... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom As we said in the first blog post on Simics 4.8, a really big new feature is the System Editor function. The system editor combines two functions into a single view, both the exploration of an existing target as well as the modification and even construction of... Continue reading

By Gareth Noyes Analytics has become a major buzzword these days, whether in the realm of connected devices, the Internet of Things, web analytics or big data business analytics. In the context of the Internet of Things, I thought I’d share some observations on different analytics paradigms and use cases.... Continue reading

One of the main themes of the Simics 4.8 release is the use of Simics to collaborate between team members, teams, and organizations. To facilitate this, Simics checkpoints have been extended with significant new metadata capabilities as well as the ability to record a simulation session and communicate the recording as part of a checkpoint. Checkpointing can really transform how developers and testers and users communicate issues in their systems, and the new checkpointing features and metadata makes the mechanism even more powerful. We have a video up on YouTubedemonstrating this Simics feature. The checkpoint comments and metadata introduced in... Continue reading

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 collaboration features, as well as tweaks to the simulator performance, debugger, and modeling workflow, so there is quite a bit to talk about. We start off with an overview of the news. The most visible new functions in Simics 4.8 are found in the Eclipse user interface. We have added several new views... Continue reading

By Jakob Engblom One of the main themes of the Simics 4.8 release is the use of Simics to collaborate between team members, teams, and organizations. To facilitate this, Simics checkpoints have been extended with significant new metadata capabilities as well as the ability to record a simulation session and... Continue reading