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Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM

Hynes Convention Center, Embedded Systems Conference, ESC-2011, Room 312

Greg Davis, Director Engineering

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.

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

Hynes Convention Center, Embedded Systems Conference, ESC-2028, Room 210

Greg Davis, Director Engineering

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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Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM

Hynes Convention Center, DesignMED, DM-3001, Room 208

Joe Fabbre, Director 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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Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Hynes Convention Center, Android Summit, AD-3002, Room 309

Thomas Cantrell, Engineering Manager, Embedded Networking

Android adoption is growing rapidly in electronic products, yet Android security solutions are in their infancy. This session discusses emerging technologies to address secure boot, data-at-rest and in-transit encryption, user authentication, and application/environment sandboxing in an Android environment that has proven fertile to hackers. Session includes security technology demonstration on an Android tablet.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM

Hynes Convention Center, Embedded Systems Conference, ESC-4003, Room 304

Thomas Cantrell, Engineering Manager, Embedded Networking

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, September 20, 2012, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Hynes Convention Center, Embedded Systems Conference, ESC-4022, Room 304

Greg Davis, Director Engineering

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 session 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.