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EmbeDAC-May 17, 2010 |
The latest EDAC spring meeting was a bit different from usual. The panel session was all about embedded software. John Bruggeman, now at Cadence but previously at Wind River, lined up his old colleague Tomas Evensen (the CTO of Wind River, now part of Intel), Jim Ready (the CTO of Montavista, now part of Cavium Networks) and Jack Greenbaum (director of embedded software engineering for Green Hills Software, still independent).
Jack started off the proceeding by pointing out that for most designs the software engineering costs more than the IC engineering. For him the business drivers were 16 bit designs all going to 32 bit, 32 bit designs going to 64 bit, multicore and virtualization (using a single core to run code binaries from what used to be several separate microprocessors). Tomas added the drive towards open source. And Jim emphasized the thrust of Linux into embedded.