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A Model Driven Approach to Software Development for Systems
If your code doesn’t run because someone changed the hardware and the guy who wrote the code left the company 10 years ago...You just might be an Embedded Systems/Software Developer … who doesn’t use MDD(download pdf)

Model Driven Development of Certifiable Software:
A Best Practice for Safety-Critical Applications

Moving beyond Model Driven Design of Systems to Formal Development of Software as a Best Practice for Certification in Mil/Aero, Industrial, Transportation, and Medical Applications (download pdf)

Embedded Linux Total Cost of Development Analyzed An Evaluation of the Costs Associated with Embedded Linux Development as Compared with Commercial RTOSes and Non-Commercial Linux (download pdf)


What Do You Do When the Horse You’re Riding Drops Dead?:
Why Model Driven Design is Emerging as a Preferred Best Practice
(download pdf)

Optimizing Technology Choices for Device Software:
How OEMs and developers can significantly reduce development costs and time-to-market (download pdf)

Using Elliptical Curve Cryptography(ECC) for Enhanced Embedded Security: Financial Advantages of ECC over RSA or Diffie-Hillman (DH) (download pdf)

RTOS Selection and Its Impact on Enhancing Time-To-Market and On-Time Design Outcomes
How time-to-market and on-time design considerations can cost or make you money - and why you should consider these factors in choosing or replacing your operating system. Including 2009 Addendum: RTOS Selection for Medical Devices (download pdf)

Reducing OEM Development Costs and Enabling Embedded Design Efficiencies Using the Unified Modeling Language (UML2.0) - A detailed look at UML2.0 as an efficient platform for developing embedded designs. Includes buyer's checklist. (download pdf)

Fault Tolerant Modems and Embedded Security: 
The New Wave of Telecom Expansion (download pdf)

Bandwidth Blues for Board Vendors and the
Software That Supports Them

The collapse of CompactPCI markets and the threat to VME (download pdf)

Total Cost of Development
A comprehensive cost-estimation framework for evaluating embedded development platforms (download pdf)

A Strategic Look at the Causes of Turbulence in Embedded Markets
Why established products fall prey to newer and under-performing technologies
(download pdf)

Embedded Software Development Issues and Challenges
The opportunity costs associated with unexamined development practices (download pdf)

UML for C Developers: Getting Embedded C Applications to Market Faster using the Model-Driven Development Technologies of Modeling, Simulation and Code Generation (download pdf)