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Reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are affecting every area of military designs especially RF and microwave solutions for electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and radar applications. This E-cast of industry experts will cover how military electronics designers are solving SWaP challenges to enable multifunction, multi-platform systems.Presented by: Evans Capacitor Company, National Instruments <p><i>Speaker(s): Jerry Gipper (Executive Director, VITA); Colin McClennan (Vice President, Evans Capacitor Company)</p>

IoT systems are a mash-up of many technologies that require embedded, network, and enterprise expertise coupled with industry domain insight. Within this challenging environment, it's never been more important to have an effective set of tools and techniques for creation of the right requirements for a successful project and managing them in a way that promotes collaboration and increased cross-functional communication.Presented by: IBM <p><i>Speaker(s): Edmund Mayer (Technical Sales Lead Watson Internet of Things Continuous Engineering Solutions, IBM); Rick Learn (Senior Technical Sales Specialist Watson Internet of Things Continuous Engineering Solutions, IBM) </p>

Safety-critical systems require some of the most stringent, time-consuming and expensive development and testing processes. Increasing functionality and connectivity has even driven up test and certification costs. During this webinar, we will be discussing some of the challenges to certification and ways that process and tools can reduce the cost and improve safety, security and reliability for embedded devices. Specifically, we will discuss ways to reduce cost related to compliance with MISRA C 2012 guidelines.Presented by: Parasoft <p><i>Speaker(s): David Hauck (Director of Embedded Sales, Parasoft); Andrey Madan (Senior Solution Architect, Parasoft) </p>

As the variety and complexity of communication systems in the modern RF battlefield increase, the need to quickly design, deploy and field upgrade spectrum monitoring and direction finding solutions becomes paramount. Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms for these applications need to cover wide frequency ranges, process high bandwidth data in real-time, provide synchronization scalable across multiple channels, and support flexible development tools.Presented by: National Instruments <p><i>Speaker(s): Wan Liu (Product Manager USRP SDR, Ettus Research)</p>

Some of the most famous information breaches over the past few years have been a result of entry through embedded and IoT system environments. Often these breaches are a result of unexpected system architecture and service connectivity on the network that allows the hacker to enter through an embedded device and make their way to the financial or corporate servers. Join us as experts in embedded security discuss key security issues for embedded systems and how to address them.Presented by: LDRA, Rogue Wave Software, Wind River, WinSystems <p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD, TBD)</p>

In this webinar, Sam Mirsky, Application Engineer at MathWorks, will discuss why and how to perform real-time simulation and testing, enabling you to rapidly and continuously test and prove your designs, from desktop simulation to testing your designs in real time on hardware platforms.Presented by: MathWorks <p><i>Speaker(s): Sam Mirsky (Application Engineer, MathWorks)</p>

Learn from proven, successful, and feature-rich SWaP-C optimized deployments. It is more and more difficult to meet expanding I/O needs, tight budgets and shorter program deployment schedules demanded of today's advanced defense systems. DDC got the competitive advantage they needed from Kontron's high-performance COBALT(tm) family designed to provide an easy-to-integrate, fully tested, cost-effective design path. DDC was able to leverage the modular building benefits COBALT delivers that ensure a proven scalability enabling "forever young" solutions. And, using COBALT's integrated established system profile and upgradable processor options, DDC was able to greatly simplify the design process.Presented by: DDC, Kontron <p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD, TBD)</p>

Attend this webcast to learn how to verify the quality, reliability, and security of high-integrity software. You'll learn to do this thoroughly and efficiently using automated static code analysis based on formal methods.Presented by: MathWorks <p><i>Speaker(s): Jeff Chapple (Senior Application Engineer, MathWorks)</p>

Many of the feats accomplished by modern military radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems are enabled by commercial technology -- from the signal processors to FPGAs, to analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters, to the board and system level. Cognitive EW and multifunctional systems that marry radar and EW processing capability in one box are some of the innovations fueled by these open architecture and commercial-off-the-shelf designs. This e-cast of industry experts will cover the performance advantages of COTS signal processing technology as well as the challenges such as obsolescence, efficient thermal management, and reducing size, weight, and power (SWaP).Presented by: Abaco Systems, Annapolis Micro Systems, Curtiss-Wright, Pentek <p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD, TBD)</p>

Active safety systems (and eventually, autonomous vehicles) rely on a range of technologies to ensure safe, reliable operation, including radar ICs of various frequencies, LiDAR units, high-resolution 360 camera systems, and more. Powerful processors/electronics control units (ECUs) and sophisticated software algorithms are also required to fuse these data inputs in real-time so that drivers (and cars themselves) can make split-second decisions that could prevent accidents. Are all of these really necessary, and, if so, where does each of them fit?Presented by: LDRA, National Instruments, Texas Instruments, Wittenstein <p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD, TBD)</p>

More than 60 percent of a new vehicle's cost comes from its advanced electronics and software systems. Since many of the human-machine interface (HMI) functions guided by these electronic systems are mission-critical, it's essential that all automotive systems work together with complete reliability. That means tens of millions of lines of software code that control advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) must be flawless.Presented by: Ansys <p><i>Speaker(s): Xavier Fornari (SCADE Suite Product Manager and Leader of Automotive Action at, ANSYS System Business Unit)</p>

These days, almost anything involving a device connected to a mobile or cloud application is being called an Internet of Things (IoT) application. Examples like smart home and retail applications leverage a combination of sensors, gateways, and cloud application to implement measurement and analysis applications. However, there is a distinct segment of IoT involving industrial systems for medical, transportation, energy, and others where reliability, availability are critical. What are the distinguishing characteristics of Industrial IoT? What are important considerations for industrial IoT that may not be as important for other IoT applications? Join us as our panel of experts in Industrial IoT discuss distinguishing characteristics, important elements, and unique implementation and deployment strategies for Industrial IoT.Presented by: Flexera Software, PTC, Red Hat, RTI <p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD TBD, TBD)</p>

There are challenges in achieving high precision and accurate sensing at low to high flow rates in metering applications such as flow meters as well as distance measurement and level detection applications. Ultrasonic sensing technology is outstanding at measuring flow velocity and using an integrated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) provides the ability to accurately measure flow even at the lowest rates. This webinar will review ultrasonic sensing technology, the ADC implementation and examples using Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontrollers, tools and software.Presented by: Texas Instruments<p><i>Speaker(s): Srinivas Lingam (Systems and Applications Engineer MSP430 Microcontrollers, Texas Instruments); Shailesh Thakurdesai (Marketing Manager MSP430 Microcontrollers, Texas Instruments)</p>

Don't confuse the Internet of Things (IoT) with the Industrial IoT (IIoT), which typically has much more stringent characteristics. That's because the IIoT usually involves some sort of manufacturing, robotics, or other mission-critical application, where down-time can be measured in dollars, often lots of them. In Day 3 of this three-day class, we'll look at how to best power your IIoT application, which could include FPGA power and design considerations for high-speed RS-485 data links. The class will use the Intersil PowerCompass tool to help simplify the design.Presented by: Intersil<p><i>Speaker(s): Charles J. Lord, PE (President and Chief Trainer, Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation)</p>

Given the influx of IoT devices flooding the market, getting your product to market quickly and having your product stand out against the competition are key to success. Learning how to design, build, deploy, and manage your devices takes time and knowledge. Focus on your iot differentiators and let our ready-built software solutions take care of the rest.Presented by: Wind River<p><i>Speaker(s): Sean Evoy (Senior Product Manager Device Cloud, Wind River); Derrick Lavado (Senior Ecosystem and Channel Manager Pulsar Linux, Wind River) </p>

Connecting operational systems with the higher-level IT or cloud systems is a key challenge facing the next generation of Industrial IoT and Industrie 4.0 systems. IIoT systems represent a convergence between the Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) worlds. Both domains have traditionally deployed technologies specific to their own use-cases with little need for integration between the underlying infrastructures. This is certainly no longer the case and the IIoT is blurring the boundaries between systems.Presented by: PrismTech<p><i>Speaker(s): Toby McClean (Chief Solutions Architect, PrismTech)</p>

Internet of Things applications are advancing past prototypes and proof of concepts into commercial use. As these systems get deployed, the security architecture enters a new danger zone with high stakes if a security breach occurs. What is the biggest security threat that needs to be addressed? What's the most effective approach to addressing security for IoT? Join us as IoT experts discuss important security concerns and how to address them.Presented by: Ayla Networks, NXP, Parasoft, RTI<p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD, TBD)</p>

Commercial processors and FPGAs promise and deliver performance advantages for military communications systems, sensor applications, radar, and electronic warfare programs at a lower price point than custom-designed systems. But to accomplish that performance they must generate a lot of heat and even with power-saving techniques added by the chip manufacturers the thermals still are too high for use in military battlefield systems. This e-cast of industry experts will cover methods for removing heat in military signal processing systems from small form factors to larger designs.Presented by: Elma Electronic, National Instruments, Themis Computer<p><i>Speaker(s): TBD (TBD, TBD)</p>

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape today is a confusing mix of proprietary connectivity technologies and standards. Some are general purpose, some are mostly appropriate for enterprise applications, and others are optimized for a narrow set of domain-specific use cases in vertically integrated systems. This confusion hinders the ability to share data that IIoT systems need. Architects need clarity on how to effectively share data between IIoT components and systems.Presented by: RTI<p><i>Speaker(s): Dr. Stan Schneider (CEO, RTI and IIC Steering Committee member); Dr. Rajive Joshi (Principal Solution Architect, RTI and Co-Chair of the IIC Connectivity Task Group)</p>

Every developer is in search of an embedded operating system platform that boasts performance and security, which are the hallmarks of the new QNX Software Development Platform 7.0. (QNX SDP 7.0). Join us as we examine market forces and industry challenges in the automotive and general embedded sectors that drive 64-bit and 32-bit technology today and describe how BlackBerry QNX addresses them. This will be followed by a preview of the advances in performance, security and safety provided by QNX SDP 7.0 that make this an ideal solution for the next generation of connected and automated vehicles.Presented by: BlackBerry QNX<p><i>Speaker(s): Leo Forget (Project Manager, BlackBerry QNX)</p>