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Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-206 — Hacking Embedded Systems; Room: Salon 4

David Kleidermacher, CTO, Green Hills Software

Most modern embedded systems have data security requirements, driven by intellectual property protection, secure remote management, DRM, financial transactions for Internet-connected devices, and more. This class will provide an overview of the latest and most important data-in-motion (network security) and data-at-rest (encrypted storage) protocols, tradeoffs regarding the software layer selected for the application of security protocols, and loads of other useful advice regarding performance, footprint, and the proper application of cryptography and key management.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-220 — Programming, Languages, and Techniques; Room: J3

Greg Davis, Director Engineering, Green Hills Software

Compile-time checking in C and C++ can catch many sources of errors, but there are numerous errors that may cause run-time failures. The multicore environment, with concurrent processors, adds another dimension to the development challenge, creating many more ways for code to fail. Many of these failures are unlikely to show up during product testing, and will only show up later as costly product glitches. This class describes the top sources of run-time errors in multicore systems and how to avoid them in order to write reliable code.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-234 — Debugging and Optimizing; Room: Salon 5

Greg Davis, Director Engineering, Green Hills Software

Writing functional and reliable software is challenging enough without considering compiler bugs. A compiler bug, particularly one that makes your code malfunction, is a rude awakening for a software developer who is just trying to meet a deadline. This session begins with a taxonomy of compiler bugs followed by a couple real-world illustrative examples of each. Finally, it discusses how they manifest themselves and what you can do to minimize their impact on your development schedule.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

San Jose Convention Center; AD-300 — Applying Android to Embedded Designs; Room: J2

David Kleidermacher, CTO, Green Hills Software

Fueled by powerful multicore processors, embedded systems are increasingly incorporating consumer-grade middleware and connectivity technology, such as that enabled by Android. This trend implies requirements for mixed-criticality partitioning in which hard real-time, safety, and/or security-critical functions can peacefully coexist with sophisticated general-purpose operating systems & their multimedia stacks. Examples of embedded systems receiving mixed-criticality requirements are medical devices, automotive electronics, industrial controls, & point-of-sale equipment. This class will compare emerging technologies developed to address mixed-criticality requirements: application-level encrypted sandboxes, operating system zones/jails, multi-boot, Type-2 hypervisors, & Type-1 hypervisors.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-312 – New Directions in Software, Processes and Tools; Room: Salon 4

Greg Davis, Director Engineering, Green Hills Software

The current language standards, C 1999 and C++ 2003, have served the community well for many years, but new standards are being developed that will improve both of the languages. Come learn about the new features and improvements in the draft standards. Find out how these improvements and extensions can be used to help you write better, safer, and faster code.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-327 – Debugging and Optimizing; Room: Salon 5

Greg Davis, Director Engineering, Green Hills Software

Understanding the compilation process is crucial to generating the tightest code from your source code. Compiler technology has not yet run its course, and new cutting-edge optimizations have made enormous execution and code size savings. This talk will survey some of my favorite optimizations: some are old, but highly effective, while others are virtually unknown outside of the tight knit community of compiler developers. All of them are, in my opinion, quite fascinating.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

San Jose Convention Center; DM-306 – Design; Room: F1

Joe Fabbre, Director of Platform Solutions

Medical device manufacturers are faced with a daunting challenge. They must balance customer demand for new features like advanced graphics, wireless communications, and secure management of patient information; while at the same time ensuring device reliability and safety, attaining device approval, and getting their products to market in a timely fashion. In this session we'll examine a software architecture that leverages software separation to safely manage the increasing complexity of software in today's medical devices.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-405 – Connectivity and Networking; Room: Salon 3

Thomas Cantrell, Engineering Manager, Networking, Green Hills Software

Embedded systems, from mobile devices to low-powered sensor networks, are becoming new members of the "Internet of Things," adding features such as field upgrade, remote management, and application downloads. The growth of these new devices adds further pressure to the nearly exhausted IPv4 address space. This class starts by talking about the reasons for the growth in IPv6 interest and customer requirements over the last year. It talks about the technical details of IPv6 in relation to traditional IPv4 networking. It then explores how to add and support IPv6 at the system level and at the application level.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

San Jose Convention Center; ESC-406 – Safety and Security Come to Embedded; Room: Salon 4

Greg Davis, Director Engineering, Green Hills Software

While 85% of embedded designs use C and C++, these languages are notorious for their inherent lack of safety. Many of the most common sources of errors are unlikely to show up during testing, and may manifest themselves later as costly product glitches and glaring security holes. This talk focuses on the tools and techniques that can be used to augment any software design paradigm. Techniques include coding conventions, automatic run-time error checking, manual compile-time and run-time assertions, static analysis, and the most common mistakes to avoid.