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Element - Commercial Middleware for Embedded Applications
Duration: 35 min
Historically, embedded software development has been a challenge for most companies. There is a notable lack of integrated programming tools, commercial 3rd party middleware, and standardized programming interfaces, forcing software developers to “roll their own” solutions from the ground up. Increasing system complexity is further compounding this dilemma, as these systems must perform better, scale higher and deliver service non-stop. The resulting architectures are more complex, distributed, fault tolerant, and generally more difficult to implement. Caught between a rock and a hard place, system designers are looking to a COTS development paradigm to help address these development and business challenges.
Major Topics
The emergence of Middleware products, like Enea’s Element and LINX, is revolutionizing the development of device platforms. Element provides a foundation of powerful services, on which developers build their embedded applications. These programming services provide transparent discovery/IPC, run-time application monitoring, a high availability framework, and embedded device management. The growing momentum toward standard hardware platforms, operating systems, and programming interfaces is a key enabler of the Element technology. As a result, OEMs can now purchase standards-compliant, pre-integrated platforms, allowing them to apply more focus to developing their specific value-added applications.
Speaker: Terry Pearson
Terry Pearson is the Vice President of Product Management for Element at Enea. Previously, he spent 15 years leading software teams in the development of distributed, high availability Networking and Telecom platforms at Tier 1 OEMs and start-up companies.