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Ken Curran and Phil Bruckner

November 4, 2015

10:00am - 10:45am

Many developers of embedded Linux systems are frustrated by lack of high quality tools to enable efficient debugging. A surprisingly high number of developers resort to logging or printf debugging and the painful process of guessing what might be going wrong in their code. This talk and live demonstration features comprehensive source-level debugging from boot loaders to applications for embedded Linux on the NVIDIA Jetson Tegra K1. It will feature advanced debug techniques that give seamless visibility from application level into kernel modules and save significant time in the debugging process.

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Greg Davis, Director of Engineering, Compilers

November 4, 2015

2:30pm - 3:15pm

C and C++ are powerful and expressive programming languages, but they permit programming practices that are not well suited for high security and reliability systems, such as automotive, avionics, medical systems, and defense. This class will provide an introduction to the latest MISRA C/C++ guidelines. MISRA is a collection of rules that define subsets of the C and C++ languages that are less error-prone and more suitable for programming in systems where security is a must.

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Greg Davis, Director of Engineering, Compilers

November 4, 2015

3:30pm - 4:15pm

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 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 quite fascinating.

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Greg Davis, Director of Engineering, Compilers

November 5, 2015

11:00am - 11:45am

Compile-time checking in C and C++ can catch many sources of errors, but there are numerous errors that may cause run-time failures. 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 and how to avoid them in order to write reliable code.