Kathy Tufto

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Kathy Tufto is a product manager in the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor, a Siemens business.. She is responsible for Mentor Embedded Linux and Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench. Before coming to Mentor, she worked at The MathWorks as a Senior Training Engineer and Senior Course Developer, where she taught and developed courses in the area of multi-domain simulation, model-based design, and embedded code generation for dynamic and embedded systems. She holds an EE degree from Boston University.

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Data Management For IIoT Devices: Is Your Software Stack Up To Task?

By Kathy Tufto - 06 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

By now we’ve heard about the great things the IIoT will bring; increased productivity, improved operational efficiency, innovation, greater competitiveness the global markets, and so on. But there’s a major shift underway that’s worth mentioning. …what is this shift? Image courtesy of EETimes. The rise of the edge device Today we are seeing intelligent processing and ... » read more

The Rise Of Complex Debug On Heterogeneous Multicore SoCs

By Kathy Tufto - 25 Aug, 2016 - Comments: 0

When projects move away from discrete development of loosely coupled systems to an integrated heterogeneous environment, elephantine debugging challenges are created. These challenges do not exist during discrete development because developers are able to design, develop, test, and optimize within the confines of their own device. But when consolidating heterogeneous systems, developers and ... » read more