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itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

Weaving Testing into the Web of Traceability

Information: YAKINDU Traceability Is Now itemis ANALYZE In the development of safety-critical systems it is essential to prove that the developed product fullfills all requirements (including system requirements, safety requirements and security requirements) to ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Becoming Xtext Co-Project Lead

I started using Xtext more than 10 years ago. Back then it was a small part of the openArchitectureware framework. I began using it heavily after the move to Eclipse and got a power user and supporter in the newsgroups and forum. In 2016 I joined the Xtext ...

by Christian Dietrich

2 min. reading time
Software Development, Cyber security, IoT, Embedded

Why security is one of the biggest engineering challenges ahead

Hardly a week goes by without major security issues being reported. The recently identified vulnerabilities of a wide range of CPUs named “Spectre” and “Meltdown” potentially affect millions of PCs and smartphones. While no actual damage can be connected to these ...

by Dirk Leopold

9 min. reading time
Software Development, Automotive, Embedded

Sketch of an Open Source implementation of AUTOSAR C++14 coding guidelines for critical systems

C and C++ are widely used languages in the development of embedded systems. But both languages have their pitfalls which need to be avoided when the systems are safety-critical. One strategy is the usage of coding guidelines that define how the language should be ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Swift Code Generation with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Swift is a programming languages made by Apple, mostly for their iOS and MacOS ecosystem, to replace Objective-C. However, using the official port, a stripped-down version of Swift can also be used under ...

by Marc Mettke

15 min. reading time
itemis products, Model Viewer, Embedded

Advanced signal highlighting in Simulink models

When working with Simulink block diagrams, one major use case is to trace signals. Understanding how signal data are processed from inputs to outputs is especially useful when debugging your model. Since signal flows are easily scattered across various subsystems ...

by Thomas Kutz

5 min. reading time
Model Viewer, Embedded

Introducing Model Viewer 1.3.4

The Model Viewer team is proud to release the new version 1.3.4! Model Viewer now includes an extended version of the signal tracing feature. Aside from that, we fixed some bugs and made it to add some new features also.

by Johannes Dicks

6 min. reading time
Software Development, Language Engineering

Testing Languages, Generators and Runtimes in a Safety-Critical System

Last year we ran a project with Voluntis in which we built DSLs for use in the healthcare domain. The benefits of the approach are readily obvious: the domain experts can much more easily review, test, explore, or even write the application logic. The overall ...

by Markus Völter

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Machine Learning Formatting with Xtext: Part II

Hi folks! Some of you might have seen my earlier blogpost on Machine Learning Formatting. It was more or less meant as an advertiser for the Eclipse Democamp Munich. As promised, here comes the follow up blogpost with more details.

by Holger Schill

13 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools January release – new and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE We released YAKINDU Statechart Tools (now itemis CREATE) Standard and Professional Edition version 3.2.0 today! In the last three months, the YAKINDU team fixed 66 Standard Edition and 28 Professional ...

by Andreas Mülder

6 min. reading time

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