Software

Renesas Electronics, Express Logic and IAR Systems are to collaborate on the development of a secure IoT platform based around ARM’s v8-M architecture. It will involve Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS and IAR’s Embedded Workbench software development environment, both of which support ARM’s TrustZone security hardware within ARMv8-M. “These technologies will be a foundation for the next-generation Renesas Synergy Platform,” said ...

Wind River has announced a VxWorks  real-time operating system (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform. This is part of the IBM and Wind River collaboration aimed at IoT deployments amongst industrial customers – offering what the pair call ‘edge-to-cloud recipes’ designed to simplify the development of smart connected devices. “This integration marks the first in a series of VxWorks ...

Mentor Graphics has added analogue/mixed-signal (AMS) and high-speed signal analysis to its PADS PCB deign and layout tools. This includes a cloud-based circuit exploration/simulation environment and user community which is available free for all PADS users. Dubbed PADS AMS Cloud, it will be used to create and share analogue and mixed-signal designs in an online community where designs and models ...

Segger has a software add-on for its emUSB-Device stack to provide Ethernet connections via USB. Fully compliant with the CDC-ECM class, the emUSB-Device CDC-ECM can be used for connecting with Mac and Linux platforms. “With an appropriate application server in the firmware of a USB-connected device, any Internet service on the host computer can access the stack – including Web, ...

Keysight Technologies has upgraded its 16-channel, PXIe digital stimulus/response (DSR) module with the inclusion of pattern editing development software. The pattern editing development software can be used to create and edit waveform patterns or to import digital patterns created by automatic test generation applications and other sources. The DSR can synchronise up to 12 modules or 192 channels with channel-to-channel ...

Arccore has released the new version of its software development kit Arctic Studio and its embedded Autosar platform Arctic Core. The release 11.0.0 of the software adds support for Autosar 4.2.2 and specific communication stack importers. As a result importing a system configuration from an “ECU extract to a BSW” configuration has been improved. Adding ECU extract importers for Ethernet ...

Green Hills Software is offering a real-time, fast-boot platform for securely combining consumer operating systems such as Linux, QNX, Android or Windows with safety- and security-critical software on 64-bit multicore processors. Based on the supplier’s Integrity real-time operating system, the Multivisor virtualisation platform supports both ARM and Intel 64-bit architectures. Green Hills Software’s secure virtualisation platform is being used automotive, ...

Audio Precision has introduced a plug-in for its APx500 audio test software to make measurements conforming to international standard IEC 60268-16 (2011). The APx Speech Transmission Index (STI) plug-in will be used in the development of public safety (police, fire, emergency) communications and public address systems, as well as flight recorder devices. Developed as a method for quantifying the intelligibility ...

GCHQ, which knows a thing or two about passwords, has issued guidance on how to set passwords, saying that over-complex ones may not be particularly secure. “Password guidance: simplifying your approach”, has been published by GCHQ. It recommends concocting a password from three random words or using a password manager. “Complex passwords do not usually frustrate attackers, yet they make ...

AdaCore is supporting the Ada programming language on Wind River’s VxWorks 7 real-time operating system with its Gnat Pro development environment. “AdaCore engineers worked closely with Wind River on this product, ensuring that it would support both single and multi-core systems” said AdaCore. “Enhancements over previous versions include a completely re-engineered open-source debugger protocol and more seamless integration with Wind ...