Attend our seminar and learn about the current and future offerings of our power efficient x86 processor platforms. Combining energy-saving processors with digital media chipsets and advanced connectivity, learn how we are driving system innovation in the PC, client, ultra mobile and embedded markets. VIA’s new Nano Embedded CPU and Multimedia chipsets and/or embedded GPU offer 64-bit, out of order computing with full HD decoding and Virtualization support. Join us to learn how VIA continues to offer performance per watt leadership on component, board and system level.

For all interest levels, this is an introduction to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 - you will become familiar with the technology, tools, and resources. As a follow-on to this session, we offer a Training Lab: Hands-on Exploring Windows Embedded CE 6.0 from 10:15 am – 12:15 pm and invite you to join us.

There are several 100 drivers and modules in the Linux kernel distribution. Learn exactly how static source code analysis can help improve the quality and reliability of these (and your) modules. Come find out what static source code analysis is and see examples of analyzing Linux device driver sources.

We will demonstrate how to develop, test, and validate real-time control algorithms using Simulink and Stateflow, without needing to acquire development tool chains, building devices drivers, or board support packages(BSPs). We’ll discuss how to test these algorithms in simulation, and automatically generate code so they be integrated with the rest of your system. We will also show how to deploy your algorithms to a real-time system using an x86 compatible embedded platform, Real-Time Workshop, and xPC Target. Lastly, we will demonstrate how these algorithms may retargeted into a production environment.

Increasing software content and complexity in today’s embedded devices amplifies the risk of failure and complicates the process of achieving high confidence in safety and reliability. Traditional software testing methods are limited in scope and static analysis based testing produce high rates of false positives. Formal methods based abstract interpretation is quickly becoming the solution of choice, because it proves the absence of a defined set of run-time errors in code. By verifying code to be free of fatal run-time errors such as under/overflows, out-of-bounds array index, illegal pointer de-referencing and other run-time errors, software and quality engineering teams are able to improve the overall reliability of software. Learn how these new techniques can be applied to the development of critical embedded applications where software quality is at stake.

Have you experienced: -Products losing market share, or causing missions to fail, because they use too much Space, Weight, and/or Power (SWaP)? -High IT costs because multiple computers sit on your developers or operators desks to process data at different levels of classification, e.g. Unclassified, Secret, Top Secret? -Servers in your organization being hacked, costing unsustainable losses in productivity, reputation, dollars, or mission risk? -Customers mandating the use of a "Separation Kernel" or "Secure Hypervisor" in the systems you are building? -Customers requiring "certified" or "certifiable" "High Robustness" and/or "EAL6+" for your next project? We invite you to attend this seminar to learn how an absolutely secure operating system will benefit you and your team.

The Controller Area Network (CAN) technical session will present detailed information about this serial network originally designed for the automotive industry. CAN is also a popular bus in industrial automation as well as other applications. Primarily used in embedded systems, the CAN bus, as its name implies, is a network technology established among microcontrollers. CAN is a two-wire, half-duplex, high-speed network system and is well suited for high-speed applications using short messages. During this session, you will have the opportunity to learn the basics of CAN as well as aspects of implementation and development.

This is an Advanced Session for those who attended the earlier session: Exploring Windows Embedded CE 6.0 or anyone that is comfortable using a development tool, or has some Microsoft product knowledge. In this training lab you will build an OS image using Platform Builder and Visual Studio 2005 and see how the developed image can be used with a panner scanner robot. You will receive an evaluation copy of Platform Builder with Visual Studio 2005.

We will show you how the latest innovations in copper and fiber optic-based PCIe 2.0 adapters can take your application to the next level while taking your costs to new lows. See how PCIe over fiber can network systems, expand system I/O capabilities, create data recording systems and create an ultra-low latency link for just about any application. Learn how PCIe over fiber compares to other networking protocols such as PCIe over copper, Infiniband and Ethernet as well as other storage protocols such as SCSI, eSATA, SAS and Fiber Channel. By migrating the already stellar performing One Stop Systems MediaVault high speed video storage systems, DiMeda ultra-high speed multi-stream video streaming platforms and the Talon 4 ultra-rugged, flight-worthy, military storage systems to the next generation of fiber-optic PCIe 2.0 cable technology, see how your storage application can truly fly at sustained throughput of up to 1.6GB/s. Learn about the PCI Express cable and fiber standardization efforts. Join us while we show you the latest fiber optic transceivers, copper and fiber-based HBAs and system-level innovations that make PCIe cable speeds up to 160GB/s and beyond possible up to hundreds of meters for networking systems, true real-time data recording and creating high speed distributed data and storage clusters. Whether your application is military, medical, broadcast, high-speed instrumentation, converged communications or simulation, you cannot afford to miss this free technology session.

Through the last number of years we have seen the emergence of static and dynamic analysis techniques as accepted methods of increasing embedded software quality, security, and reliability. We will look at various static analysis techniques (standards compliance, complexity analysis, run-time error analysis) and dynamic analysis techniques (functional, system and unit test, structural coverage analysis, modeling) and show how applying the results of both static and dynamic analysis provides far more value than either one alone. Key to this increased value is traceability: the ability to apply results of these various analysis techniques to requirements at both high and low levels throughout the development lifecycle creates actionable status data usable by management to assess embedded software projects. Finally, we will look at methods of automating the various analyses and establishing the traceability of analysis results at various phases within the development lifecycle.

Many embedded products either provide rapid turn-on times or cause downtime and user frustration. A typical embedded system contains a bootloader and kernel, both of which are typically configured with many useful default features that may or may not be important for a given product requirement. We will examine techniques to significantly reduce boot time while preserving the base functionality required of typically configured embedded systems.

Do most embedded projects need an RTOS? Its a good question. The answer lies in the very nature of embedded devices. Devices that, in many cases, are manufactured in the thousands, or millions, of units. Devices where even a $1 reduction in per-unit hardware costs can save the manufacturer a small fortune. Savings aside, the services provided by an RTOS make many computing problems easier to solve, particularly when multiple activities compete for a systems resources. This session explores what is realtime, what makes a realtime system and when its needed. Attend and learn about some of the critical elements of realtime computing such as scheduling, priority inversion, interrupt handling and reliability.

There are many strategies a project can take to test their embedded software applications. These include code coverage analysis, full unit testing, and static code analysis. Ideally, most organizations would like a repeatable regression testing process that is easy to implement and has a measurable impact on product quality. But how do you get there? Find out exactly as we explore the various ways companies from a wide range of industries combine various testing approaches to improve overall product quality and test repeatability.

Safety Critical Systems are demanding ever-increasing functionality and secure and safe operation with very high assurance of protection from intentional or inadvertent threats or errors. At the same time, these systems must often operate with requirements for reduced space, weight, and power (SWaP). To meet these competing demands, a new system architecture has emerged: A MILS operating system "partitions" a single processor among multiple software components, with resource allocation (space and time), information flow, security policies, and fault isolation strictly enforced to conform to security and system requirements defined by application developers, platform providers, and system integrators. This technical session elaborate on how the VxWorks MILS Platform delivers a full-featured, open, and robust MILS development environment for developing multilevel secure (MLS) and cross-domain solutions (CDS) devices with high security, high robustness, and high performance requirements.