Embedded World

Meeting SEP 2.0 Compliance: Developing Power Aware Embedded Systems for the Modern Age – Andrew Caples – Thursday, February 28 11:30 – 12:00

The Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 is quickly becoming the go-to standard for developing innovative products and services in the energy power management sector. Information flow between meters, smart appliances, and energy management systems must occur in an open, standardized, and interoperable fashion. SEP 2.0 establishes the standard for communication interoperability as well as security for networked appliances and meters.

In this session attendees will learn how to meet the challenges of SEP 2.0 compliance with a small footprint RTOS, such as Nucleus RTOS from Mentor Graphics, to address the connectivity and security requirements for the smart energy profile. This session takes a detailed look at the design considerations to consider how an RTOS can reduce development time and cost for SEP 2.0 compliant products.

Profiling Multicore Systems to Maximize Core Utilization – Colin Walls – Thursday, February 28 13:30 – 14:30

Underutilization of cores in a multicore system can be considered a bug. As your system incorporates more cores, you need to make sure that all the cores are being utilized fully. Un-expected inter-actions between processes, the operating system, and resources can prevent cores from delivering peak performance. In this session explore how to profile what each core is doing, which processes are running on each core, and understand where core utilization falls below optimum values.

My Car Won’t Connect to the Internet – Andrew Patterson – Thursday, February 28 15:30 – 16:00

Embedded software designers working on In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) have had to learn about a lot of new technology in the last 3 years, ranging from the Linux operating systems, support for a wide range of IVI applications, middleware and application services, integration of complex semiconductor SoC platforms, and multi-modal human interface requirements to list a few. The rate of innovation required by vehicle buyers shows no sign of slowing down, as markets now demand on-line access for the car driver and passengers. The truth is, most cars do not connect to the internet today, but there is no doubt that they will need to fairly soon to take advantage of cloud and telematics services becoming available. This session looks at the connectivity options available to embedded designers at OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers, both from a hardware and software perspective. The work of organizations such as the Car Connectivity Consortium will be explored, as well as specific point solutions provided by mobile operators and leading phone brands.

Developing the Next Generation Embedded HMIs – Phil Burr - Thursday, February 28 16:00 – 16:30

With more and more people using smartphones it is no surprise that more and more people are demanding better HMIs in other products: whether it is in their set top box, refrigerator, or car, users have come to expect graphically rich dynamic HMIs. This is all very well, but what is a humble developer to do when confronted with the constraints of their embedded device. This presentation examines the options for embedded developers needing to implement these latest HMIs and looks at tools and techniques which can help developers meet or exceed their customer’s HMI expectations.