There’s a long way to go though. A survey from the Barr Group found that only 31% of respondents who said security was a design requirement rated it as more important than meeting the project’s delivery schedule.
Among some of the announcements at embedded world, Renesas said that IAR Systems’ development toolchain - the IAR Embedded Workbench – would now be integrated within its Synergy Platform as ‘EWARM-RS’.
The platform has been developed to give developers access to a complete embedded platform comprised of best-in-class RTOS and software, as well as scalable ARM Cortex-M based MCUs.
According to IAR, developers will be able to gain access via a simple click-through licensing agreement.
“We believe that platform solutions are the way to go for the IoT and future embedded applications as they will help to simplify development and provide for a much quicker return on investment,” explained Stefan Skarin, CEO. “We believe that the embedded market is ready for a change and, by creating strong strategic alliances, we will be able to provide high-quality, all-inclusive solutions that accelerate development of new products.”
Vector Software announced it was expanding its Vector Software Global Services offering, which will now include software Health Check and Baseline Testing services.
The check will review the current state of an organisation’s testing infrastructure and gather key metrics such as gaps in testing, code complexity, and comment density to identify risk areas. At the end of the process, a detailed report will be generated containing all of the gathered data along with recommendations for improvement.
Baseline Testing, also known as characterisation testing, is intended to help organisations with legacy code bases that have inadequate test cases. The company’s latest technology will enable a company to build huge suites of test cases for legacy applications.
LDRA delivered Version 10 of its LDRA tool suite, looking to address hacking and the takeover of system controls. Version 10 adds a set of static and dynamic analysis capabilities that can detect, analyse and help eliminate software vulnerabilities in security critical embedded applications.
Express Logic announced the X-Ware Secure Platform for ARM Cortex-M processors. The platform delivers an integrated set of Express Logic’s X-Ware components for use with future Cortex-M processors featuring the ARMv8-M architecture and with current Cortex-M processors with MPU support.
The platform uses the Cortex-M’s MPU to assign memory range boundaries to non trusted code. Michael May, vp of marketing, said: “The goal is to quarantine things you don’t trust. This allows code you trust to do what it should. People think security is all about communications, but there is also a need to protect the application itself in a number of ways.”
* Meanwhile, the company says its ThreadX RTOS has now been deployed more than 5.4billion times.
