January 07, 2008
One of the appeals of doing embedded software development is the
opportunity to build software that is based on good design principles and then
to squeeze out every ounce of performance through a series of
optimization techniques.
Hand coding a program in assembler (ASM) is one of the most
challenging, yet rewarding ...
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Posted by Daniel Potts on January 07 at 03:31 PM
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January 02, 2008
VP of Product Management, Rob McCammon to speak at RTECC Santa Clara Conference.
Open Kernel Labs will exhibit at the January 22 RTECC Conference in Santa Clara, California.
Come meet Rob and hear his presentation:
High Performance Microkernel Provides the Ideal Platform for Trustworthy Embedded Systems
presented by ...
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Posted by Robert C. McCammon on January 02 at 04:52 PM
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December 20, 2007
There are low, medium, and high paranoia segments of the marketplace. Paranoia refereeing to concerns related to security. These issues deal with reliability and trustworthiness of embedded systems.
If you think about what that means, the high paranoia segment of the market would be characterized by what is sometimes ...
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Posted by Steve Subar on December 20 at 10:52 PM
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December 13, 2007
The Chicago staff of Open Kernel Labs heads to Sydney, Australia to meet with their down under mates. While in Sydney, the staff of Open Kernel Labs will host their 2007 Open House.
If you are friends of the OK community and want more information email blog@ok-labs.com.
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Posted by Team OK on December 13 at 10:43 AM
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November 28, 2007
For some reason over the past two weeks I've had friends and colleagues coming up to me and asking What is android? This is a, hopefully short, post to try and answer that question. In an effort to keep this post short, I'm making statements without necessarily backing them up with argument. If anyone disagrees with ...
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Posted by Benno Leslie on November 28 at 07:08 PM
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November 27, 2007
When we were coming up with the name Open Kernel Labs, one of those three words, “Kernel,” was an obvious choice, because the core technology is a pure microkernel.
However, we had choices to make about the other two words—“Open”and “Labs.” We were quite deliberate in thinking about these words, because they speak ...
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Posted by Steve Subar on November 27 at 05:43 AM
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November 22, 2007
When you are as immersed in this technology as many of us are, you can forget to explain the basics. At tradeshows I am frequently asked: “What is a Microkernel”
Well, let me begin my describing what a kernel is. A kernel is basically the software component of an operating system that runs in the privileged mode of a ...
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Posted by Abi Nourai on November 22 at 07:03 PM
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November 21, 2007
Linux Conference (http://www.linux.conf.au)
Melbourne 2008
28 Jan – 02 Feb
At the 2007 OLS, Christoph Lameter presented a talk titled “Extreme High Performance Computing or Why Microkernels Suck”. Having more than a passing interest in microkernels, and having deployed one in a few (dozen? hundred?) million mobile ...
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Posted by Gernot Heiser on November 21 at 08:31 AM
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November 16, 2007
“A brand name is more than a word. It is the beginning of a conversation.” – Lexicon
When I was first introduced to Open Kernel Labs, the word that most intrigued me was Labs.
In branding, there are different ways to create a company name - the core of a firm’s brand identity. Organizations work to create a phrase or a ...
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Posted by Marti Konstant on November 16 at 08:24 AM
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November 14, 2007
That gets into some level of technical detail - so a use case might be the best way to answer that question. Think of the mobile phone as an example. That mobile phone has an application processor that the user interacts, which runs the browser, e-mail, and perhaps Microsoft Office applications and has the MP3 player, ...
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Posted by Steve Subar on November 14 at 06:06 AM
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November 09, 2007
About three years ago, in Australia, NICTA decided it was time to commercialize the results of their R and D. In conjunction with a group of Australian venture capital investors, NICTA created an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program and began searching for an individual with the right experience and previous ...
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Posted by Team OK on November 09 at 05:49 AM
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November 06, 2007
We are excited to launch our first official blog. We are developers, lead architectural engineers, executives, marketers, educators, project managers, and academics. Many of us have been blogging independently for years, but we decided to create our team blog to share a bit of our culture with you.
As a team we share, ...
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Posted by Team OK on November 06 at 05:31 AM
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