The problem here is not necessarily an input validation problem. Thesystem call's function is to execute a command specified in a string.The problem, in this case, is the context of the call. The ...

To meet time-to-market and productivity pressures, embedded-system developers increasingly consider and use high-level design-software tools that provide more abstraction, simpler representations of ...

Designing an embedded system with security in mind has become necessary for many industries. The drive to connect a device to the internet allows remote attacks on the system. Developers who want to ...

We've seen in the previous articles how Ada can be used to describe high-level semantics and architecture. The beauty of the language, however, is that it can be used all the way down to the lowest ...

Application size and complexity has compounded significantly over the last decade. Take the automotive sector as an example. According to The New York Times, 20 years ago, the average car had a ...

Embedded systems, critical and non-critical, have increasingly become part of people’s lives being present in day-by-day life issues, like health-care electronics, automotive industry and ...

Every developer wants to develop robust systems. No one wants to point to a product that behaves poorly and say, “I built that.” Many factors come into play when designing and implementing a robust ...

For sensor-based applications that require real-time acquisition and control, an embedded data acquisition (DAQ) solution offers substantial benefits, including cost-savings, less complexity, and the ...

Official support for UEFI BIOS by Windows 8 facilitates the standardized firmware interface migration that has already been implemented for a long time in the industry. UEFI BIOS design differs from ...