category: Looking Past The Horizon

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Where Dragons Roam
By Tom De Schutter - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

For more than half a year now, I am living with two dragons at home. Luckily from the outside they look just like regular children, so we didn’t have to upgrade our house. But we have to remind our little dragons to switch to human languages when they talk to us. It is interesting, and also a bit sad, to realize that as we “grow up,” we lose the ability to let our imagination go wild a... » read more

Halloween Is Going Mobile
By Tom De Schutter - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

With the end of October around the corner, my children are frantically thinking about what they want to dress up as for Halloween. It is interesting that both of them chose a costume that has something to do with a mobile video game. My daughter will be dressing up as a red angry bird while my son wants to go as a wizard, where he is using clash of clans as the example of what a wizard should l... » read more

What Type of Insurance Do You Have?
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

With the software development effort now accounting for roughly half of the overall SoC development cost, any delay on the software availability side can have a big impact on the SoC availability. As one engineer of a major semiconductor vendor expressed to me: “The SoC hardware is typically only available a couple of weeks before we want to announce and demonstrate it at a major show like CE... » read more

Simple Concepts Can Lead To Big Improvements
By Tom De Schutter - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter As I am just back from vacation, it is an ideal time to reflect on where we are with virtual prototyping and VDKs (Virtualizer Development Kits). For more than a year now we have been developing reference VDKs based on ARM’s Versatile Express board, and it has really made a difference in how we engage with customers. Although we always had demos, which were similar to t... » read more

Drafting For First Place
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter I am a big fan of professional cycling events, and nothing can beat the Tour de France. Every year the best riders from around the world gather for what looks like an impossible task: This year they have to ride 3,404 kilometers (2,115 miles) in three weeks including five hill stages and six mountain stages. After completing that entire distance, all that separates the first... » read more

A Team Is Only As Strong As Its Captain
By Tom De Schutter - 27 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter Last week I was in Cambridge, UK. Although the weather wasn’t great, which seems to be pretty standard every time I visit, it actually didn’t rain a whole lot. That was a victory in itself. On one of the evenings I was eating with some colleagues at a restaurant overlooking Parker’s Piece, a 25-acre square of grass near the center of Cambridge. Frequent visitors of ... » read more

A Team Is Only As Strong As Its Captain
By Tom De Schutter - 27 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

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Software, From Zero To Hero
By Tom De Schutter - 30 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter As the amount of software in electronics applications continues to grow across many markets, from mobile phones to automotive hybrid systems, it is interesting to see how people portray this new-found dependency on software availability. I recently saw a presentation slide with the title: software delays products. Well, that’s one way of looking at it, but it’s a rather ... » read more

Reducing Wait Time
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter Last month we were all waiting for white smoke to emerge from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. I am of course talking about the election of the new pope. I couldn’t help but see a parallel with how software developers are anxiously waiting for their software to run correctly and finally get past the series of seemingly never ending bugs (black ... » read more

Network Software Bring Up
By Tom De Schutter - 28 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter With their latest Cortex-A processors, and especially the ARMv8 Cortex-A57 processor, ARM has provided the right scalability and performance required for network applications. Porting and developing software for these multicore/multi-cluster designs, however, is not a trivial task and cannot be done as an afterthought. That is the topic that Robert Kaye from ARM and I addres... » read more

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