As mentioned in Part 1 of our DESIGN East Bulletin, VDC attended the 2012 DESIGN East Conference in Boston from September 17th through the 19th. We met with a wide range of companies to discuss product announcements and a variety of industry trends impacting the embedded market today. Among the most prominent industry trends we observed at this year’s show is the momentum behind Intelligent Devices, M2M connectivity, and the Internet of Things. Device security, which is heavily tied to each of these topics, was also a major point of conversation in many of our meetings.
Yesterday we noted our Embeddy award winner, Parasoft, and its Open Embedded Testing Platform, which provides integration of open source or 3rd party tools into an organization’s software development lifecycle. The following is a round-up of the remainder of our meetings.
WALKING THE FLOOR
AdaCore announced that Rockwell Collins had selected AdaCore’s SPARK Pro and GNAT Pro High-Security products in the development of SecureOne Guard. SecureOne Guard is a high assurance cross domain guard for military tactical systems, and has strict requirements for reliability and security. Also, AdaCore’s Director of Language Research, Tucker Taft, presented a paper, “Ada 2012 – New Language Technology for High-Integrity Software” at the show.
aicas celebrated the shipment of the 400,000th unit of its JamaicaCAR framework. The company also announced a 64-bit multicore JamaicaVM toolchain for VxWorks, QNX, and Linux.
GrammaTech announced CodeSonar 3.8, the first version of their static analysis tool to incorporate CodeSonar’s software architecture visualization. This update of the CodeSonar product takes advantage of multicore processors by parallelizing the analysis engine to significantly increase analysis speed with fewer false positives. In response to the growing popularity of Java code in embedded systems, GrammaTech also announced CodeSonar for Java. This tool works on all Java code, including code written for Android.
Green Hills Software made two key announcements at this year’s show. The company received a number of functional safety certificates for its MULTI toolchain, signifying its certification to meet the qualifications specified in the IEC 61508:2010 (industrial), EN 50128:2011 (railway), and ISO 26262:2011 (automotive) standards. Green Hills also released version 2012.5 of the Green Hills Compiler toolchain, which features out-of-the-box support for several new Freescale Qorivva and QorIQ processors.
IAR Systems announced it has ported Embedded Workbench to the Renesas RH850, a next generation automotive microcontroller. This announcement further establishes IAR’s longstanding collaborative relationship with Renesas.
IBM Rational Software highlighted Rational Rhapsody 8.0 and Rhapsody Design Manager 4.0. These solutions assist engineers to simplify safety-critical design using certification assistance to meet compliance standards such as AUTOSAR and UPDM.
The Intelligent Systems group at Intel shared details of its newly released Intel Intelligent Systems Framework. The framework is an evolving set of interoperable solutions designed to enable connectivity, manageability, and security across devices in a consistent and scalable manner. Included are validated components from Dell, Kontron, McAfee, Wind River, and others, with additional products expected to be validated in the coming months.
LDRA announced two new tools, LDRAcover and LDRArules. LDRAcover is a stand-alone code coverage analysis tool used to ensure complete testing for the improvement of overall code quality or achieve needed levels of verification in safety-critical markets. LDRArules is a configurable programming rule checker. This stand-alone product allows companies to select and adhere to relevant industry programming standards.
MathWorks highlighted the newest releases of MATLAB and Simulink. Released in the week prior to the show, the release (2012b) offers significant updates to the navigation and usability of both tools. Among the notable changes to Simulink is an overhauled user interface with tabbed model windows and an Explorer bar for navigating model hierarchy. Major changes to MATLAB include the introduction of the MATLAB toolbar displaying commonly used features and an overhaul of the apps gallery.
Micriµm and Renesas announced that Renesas RX and RL78 customers can now get a free, single production license for Micriµm’s µC/OS-II/III operating system as well as middleware and a year of support and maintenance from Micriµm at no cost. This promotion will run through March 31st, 2013.
Segger Microcontroller released a complete evaluation package (including embOS, emFile, and emWin) for the Freescale TWR K70 development board.
Texas Instruments received the Embeddy Award for the hardware category for their Hercules RM46x ARM Cortex-R4 safety microcontroller. This controller was part of an accompanying SafeTI design package which also included a new SafeTI ARM Compiler Qualification Kit to help developers in industries with safety requirements.
Vector Software announced a partnership with AdaCore to provide advanced dynamic and static testing capabilities for Ada software developers. The company also highlighted the integration of the industry standard Lint analysis engine into VectorCAST/C++.
Other leading embedded systems exhibitors included Arium, ARM, Change Vision, Connect Tech, EBSnet, Freescale, Lauterbach, Macraigor Systems, Microchip, National Instruments, STMicroelectronics, and many, many others.
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