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By Mike Deliman
Congratulations are due to the Mars Phoenix Lander crew.
Not only did their mission get it's extension, they found the first part of what they were looking for.
They've confirmed the presence of that illusive substance, so critical to life on Earth: WATER!
Remember, everywhere we find water on Earth, we find something living in it.
Here's the announcement from NASA. Enjoy!
By Mike Deliman
Hello All,
last week as some of you know I was the featured presenter / presentation for a Webinar. (you may have problems watching that with firefox...) . During the course of the webinar, we were asked a number of questions, and we ran out of time...
Here are some of the questions and answers we couldn't get to.
By Mike Deliman
It's another beautiful day in the Mojave, temps will easily pass the century mark, and there will be another batch of emails with various questions and "trolling" remarks about what exactly is or is not on Mars and how badly crippled it is.
So far, among the letters from the public, I've received claims of: "it's an Apollo moon-shot fake, like the rovers", there's a short in the robot arm, the robot arm is broken, the lander leaked 'rocket fuel', the OS crashed the lander and it's not responding, the lander runs Linux, the lander runs embedded Windows, the lander has a modern computer and uses 128MB of RAM.
Okay. I'll go through these to see if I can help clear some of the dust.
By Paul Parkinson
I've recently been working with a customer to integrate Wind River Coverage Analysis (formerly known as CoverageScope) with Telelogic Rhapsody within their development tools framework for a mission-critical system.
At first glance, it might seem strange to integrate a code coverage testing tool with a UML design tool, as these aren't even adjacent phases in the software development life cycle (implementation being between them). However, the advent of Eclipse in recent years has helped to break down the silos which used to confine tools individual development life cycle stages and improved development work flow.
By Doug Gaff
As if we didn't already have our hands full with EclipseCon, the next event is on the horizon: the Eclipse Plug-in Fest for Embedded and Mobile Products. The inaugural Plug-in Fest was held in January last year at Symbian's offices in London, and it was a great success. This year, I'm pleased to announce that Wind River will be hosting the event in our Sunnyvale, CA office.
Like last year, we're expecting at least 20 companies and projects to participate in two days of product integration testing. In addition of many commercial Eclipse-based products from the device software development space, the projects leads from CDT and several of the DSDP projects will also be present. This event is for engineers only (although we are letting Ian come), and it's designed to diagnose and solve plug-in integration problems on-site.
By Paul Parkinson
I read last week that BMW has been researching the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) over standard Ethernet (Cisco) to network automotive controllers ('BMW brings Internet protocol under the hood', EETimes).
The motivation for the research is that at present, a number of different networking technologies (including CAN, LIN, MOST and FlexRay) are used in automotive applications, and these are optimized for different types of application, but the lack of standardization results in complexity and cost.
So, I was expecting the article to say that BMW had found Ethernet to be suitable for non-critical applications, but not well-suited to critical systems.
By Doug Gaff
Eclipse Summit Europe is now less than 2 weeks away, but there's still time to register and participate!
In our "System Engineering for Device Software" symposium, we will discuss what's missing in Eclipse for the embedded and mobile developer. We hope to come away with a better understanding of how you are using Eclipse and what you'd like to see next from the Eclipse community and ecosystem.
Please drop me a line if you're planning on attending. Hope to see you there!
By Doug Gaff
It's tough to be a customer sometimes, especially in the world of software. Lately, I've really felt like a mistreated customer as I use Microsoft Vista. Yes, it's my own fault for trying to use Vista this early in its life. But my logic was so simple. I have a new laptop. It came with Vista. I'm curious about Vista's new features and how well Eclipse and my product work on Vista, ergo, I shall use Vista.
Serious lapse in judgment on my part. As any IT professional will tell you: don't use a new Microsoft OS until at least the first service pack! Vista is pretty, to be sure, but oh the headaches: program incompatibilities, serious performance problems, unstable drivers, slow startup and shutdown, user access control HELL, the usual suspend/resume quirks, and bizarre docking problems. This last one is especially comical. I like to play a game I call, "let's see which monitor turns on this time" as I dock my laptop into my dual monitor setup.
By Glenn Seiler
Today was the first day of the inaugural Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit. In case you don’t remember the Linux Foundation was formed as merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group. The Collaboration Summit represents the first face-to-face meeting of the members of this new consortium. For many members that were previously very active in the OSDL there has been a lot of anticipation and anxiety about how the new organization will represent all the Linux community – those of us in the Device Software market as well as the mainstream Enterprise market.
I have to say this first day has been a very pleasant surprise. There have been some really good panel and keynote presentations. In particular the first panel included the prominent kernel maintainers and kernel developers including Andrew Morton, James Bottomley, Chris Wright, Ted Tso and Greg KH. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, gave the keynote discussion.
By Glenn Seiler
In February 2007, Wind River announced the acquisition of FSMLabs RTCore technology along with our plans to offer the technology with Wind River Linux. Our progress on integration and our satisfaction with the technology continues to grow, and I am happy to announce that Wind River Real-Time Core 5.0 [pdf document] for Wind River Linux 1.5 is now available. Real-Time Core Technology will enable existing Wind River Linux users to achieve guaranteed real-time response for their applications and more importantly the availability of Real-Time Core enables Linux to be deployed in devices previously restricted to using an RTOS.
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