Developing Safety Critical Software - Meet the Experts

Publication date on this website: Monday, March 23, 2009
Company: Embedded Masterclass 2009
Category: Press Releases : Industry News (Market)

Summary:
The Embedded Masterclass offers the opportunity for developers to meet key vendors of tools and software for the development of mission critical systems.

Full Text:
This year's UK high-tech developers conference, the Embedded Masterclass will give engineers developing safety critical software a chance to meet with several experts in this field and even to undertake a half-day workshop in Software Timing Analysis. Several of the vendors exhibiting at this event develop products for mission critical software development within automotive systems, avionics, medical, and safety control systems. The Embedded Masterclass will take place near Cambridge and Bristol on the 7th and 12th May - http://www.embedded-masterclass.com

"For anyone involved in the development of high-integrity software, this event will be a very productive use of their time," said Richard Blackburn, the organiser. "Workshops will include one relating to development using MISRA C++; another will focus on software timing analysis, a critical factor in safety related software development. In addition to this, several of the exhibiting vendors such as Wind River, Nohau, Wittenstein and SDC Systems have new products and technologies that will be of considerable interest to engineers working with ADA, DO-178B or similar safety standards for software development."

Engineers from SDC Systems will be available to discuss their product Ada Magic, that allows automatic error free conversion of ADA code to C/C++ whilst providing time and cost savings and preserving Ada codes´ comments, file structures and variable names to ease ongoing maintenance. With many companies seeking to migrate legacy ADA code to C/C++, AdaMagic is attracting a lot of attention in the marketplace.

Software Timing experts, Rapita Systems, will be undertaking a half-day workshop offering a tutorial that will cover key aspects on-target timing analysis: finding worst case execution times (WCET) and the worst case path, and why worst case optimisation is not the same as average execution optimisation. Practical issues of looking for the worst-case "hot-spots", identifying timing bugs and verifying optimisation opportunities will be explained with examples of worst case optimisation.

"The event is shaping up to be very worthwhile once again," said Richard Blackburn. "We've a lot more vendor support for the project this year and delegate registrations are also well ahead of previous years. Our ambition is always to create an event that engineers will find a productive use of their time, and this year is no exception. We have a collection of great presentations that I think embedded and electronic engineers will find useful and interesting, a vendor exhibition that will introduce many new and exciting technologies and four half-day workshops that include an introduction to GUI Development and Embedded Linux development, as well as those mentioned already."

Over the past 9 years, the Embedded Masterclass has established itself as an important UK event for engineers looking to explore the most recent tools and technologies for the development of embedded systems. Over the years it has grown from a small seminar into a much larger event that now includes a tabletop exhibition, an agenda of technical presentations and a collection of high quality workshops. It attracts electronics engineers, embedded computing engineers, designers and project managers, giving them the chance to meet with engineers from many of the world's leading vendors of development tools and realtime and embedded technologies. The Embedded Masterclass is recognised for the quality of its presentations, which are technical in content and presented by experienced and knowledgeable engineers. The main event, including the agenda of technical presentations, is free to engineers and managers in the technology sector, although the workshops carry a small charge.

Contact:
The Embedded Masterclass will take place in Cambridge and Bristol on the 7th and 12th May - http://www.embedded-masterclass.com . Places are limited so early registration is recommended.

Contact info@embedded-masterclass.com for further information.