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More Tales from the Road - VDC at ESC Silicon Valley 2015

by Andre Girard | 08/14/2015

In case you missed it, VDC’s IoT & Embedded Technology was recently in Santa Clara for the 2015 Embedded Systems Conference – Silicon Valley. We had the opportunity to meet with and get updates from a number of companies, both at the show and several nearby corporate headquarters. Vendors we spoke with were pleased with the volume and quality of the attendees and many training sessions operated at full capacity.

As we have for the past decade, VDC Research presented the annual Embeddy Award to the organization judged to have announced the most significant advance in the embedded software and hardware industries at ESC. VDC created and named the Embeddy to highlight the most cutting-edge product or service for embedded software developers and system engineers.  We heard several compelling updates vendors in the RTOS, tools, and processor segments. Upon final assessment, LDRA’s Tool Suite 9.5 was selected as the best in show. LDRA provides software for automated code analysis and software testing to the safety-, mission, security-, and business-critical markets. The Embeddy award was presented on stage in conjunction with the ACE Awards, given by EETimes and EDN. 

In the 9.5 release, LDRA further extends performance of the LDRA tool suite by improving Linux support and by introducing a clear ‘Uniview’ function to help users visualize software components and development artifacts,” commented André Girard, VDC Research’s Senior Analyst of IoT & Embedded Technologies. “But since advances in functionality are less valuable if the solution is hard to use, we feel advances to both functionality and usability in this release of the LDRA tool suite are particularly important.

Overall, VDC was pleased with the level of excitement at the show and believe UBM has found a successful format. We expect the continuation of a consistent approach will lead to increased vendor participation in upcoming ESC events. 

View the 2017 IoT & Embedded Technology Research Outline to learn more.