November 11, 2011
ARM TechCon Redux
This week in part two of my 2011 ARM TechCon coverage, I chat with Will Tu from ARM about the development of ARM’s new Embedded Software Store and his impressions of the show this year. I also chat with Jake Alamat (Director of Product Marketing for Sitara ARM microprocessors at Texas Instruments) about their new line of $5 ARM® Cortex A8 microprocessors, and try to find out what the heck they were thinking with that price point.
I've got another Spartan-6 SP-01 Evaluation kit to give away this week, but you’ll have to listen find out how to win.
Channels
Fish Fry Links - November 11, 2011
More Information about TI's new $5 AM335x ARM® microprocessors
Editorial Blog post by Bryon Moyer: ARM’s Top Three Cellular Trends
Editorial Blog post by Kevin Morris: Cubestormer II
Fresh Byte: The Thermostat that learns
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
John Bruggeman, Former CMO - Cadence Design Systems
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO - Lattice Semiconductor
Lauro Rizzatti, Vice President of Marketing, EVE
Bill Neifert, CTO - Carbon Design Systems
Sean Dart, CEO - Forte Design Systems
Kapil Shankar, CEO - SiliconBlue
Paul Kocher, President - Cryptography Research Inc.
Comments:
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:16 PM
In this week's Fish Fry, I interview Will Tu from ARM about their new venture in eCommerce and chat with Jake Alamat about TI's new $5 microprocessor. What do you think about these new announcements?
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:08 PM
Amelia,I don't need another Spartan 6 board, but free is hard to beat.
Security is hard, but the biggest concern for me is the fact that systems are no longer isolated. Physical access used to be needed to get into a plant and mess with the operation. Stuxnet and Duqu are the perfect examples.http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1810231/experts-convinced-duq...
Embedded developers used to be able to hide behind the fact that our devices only communicated among themselves, if they communicated at all. There is a whole lot of crappy code out there that assumes everything on the network is friendly. The internet is not friendly.
There was a study, I can't find the reference now, of connected industrial systems. A large number where connected the the internet when the operators assumed they were isolated. With Wifi, and other wireless instruments, it is trivial to get a connection. Once connected, the whole system is vulnerable.
Plus the odds are against us. To be secure, the system has to be perfect. To successfully attack, you only have to find one vulnerability.
Add to this the social engineering and fishing attacks, that don't even require access to a system, and we are defenseless.
http://concretemulticore.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/smart-grid-securi...