As chairman of the MISRA C Working Group, I am pleased to announce that MISRA C:2012 Technical Corrigendum 2 has been published.
This update is compatible with:
TC2 is available for free download via the Publications area of the MISRA website.
I have, this morning, been advised that I have been appointed as Chair of BSI‘s IST/15 Software and Systems Engineering Committee.
BSI IST/15 is the UK mirror to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 Software and Systems Engineering, and the role as Chair comes with the additional responsibility as UK Head of Delegation to SC 7.
I am grateful for the support of the outgoing Chair, and the continued support and encouragement of LDRA. Likewise I appreciate the trust being placed in me by BSI.
I will remain as Chair of BSI IST/15/-/26 Software Testing, and UK delegate to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7/WG 26, supporting the development of the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 family of standards.
An important announcement from the Embedded World team:
To accommodate the wishes of the industry and also give all participants the opportunity to plan with confidence, we decided to postpone embedded world 2022 inclusively the both accompanying conferences embedded world Conference and electronic displays Conference to June.
The decision to postpone was made in close cooperation with our exhibitors and partners.
Together with them we are now looking forward to seeing the international embedded community again in Nuremberg from 21 to 23 June 2022. Please make a note of the new date now.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Stay healthy!
Your embedded world team
I hope to see you in Nürnberg, in June.
Despite their many common characteristics and the underlying possibility of compromised safety resulting from cyberattacks, designing and developing for cybersecurity generally demands a different focus to functional safety. It is an environment that changes much more quickly, for example, and the potential for active aggressors is alien to the traditional world of functional safety.
Importantly, the topics of functional safety and cyber-security are global in their reach. With this in mind, I was invited, by ETauto magazine in India, to present a webinar titled Connecting Functional SAFETY and SECURITY in Automotive.
To quote from the blurb:
This presentation will discuss how those differences might impact the nature of functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, versus cybersecurity guidelines and standards like SAE J3061 and ISO/SAE 21434.
It will reflect on how it impacts the very nature of security standards, and consider whether their objectives can ever be as rightly defined as their functional safety equivalents. And it will review how sound application development techniques are likely to be central to any future cybersecurity strategy, no matter how the standards evolve.
This webinar is now available to watch on-demand.
I’d like to thank the team at ETauto for their welcome and support during the preparation and streaming of this webinar. I would also like to thank Mr Shinto Joseph, LDRA’s Director of South East Asia Operations for his contribution and local knowledge during the Q&A segment
One month to go until Embedded World 2021…
Unsurprisingly in the circumstances, this key event in the embedded systems calendar will be virtual, but that doesn’t make it any less important!
Once again, I’m pleased to announce that I will play an active role in this conference… both as a Session Chair and as a Presenter.
The full program is available from the conference website.
I will be Chairing a total of five sessions, within the Software and Systems Engineering track:
I will be presenting three Papers
All times Central European Time.
A couple of years back, fellow members of the IET’s Safety Technical Professional Network Andy German and Richard Piggin (both then at Atkins) proposed the creation of a Code of Practice for Cyber Security and Safety.
Shortly afterwards, I joined a motley crew gathered at the IET’s headquarters at Savoy Place and held a brainstorming session…
This in turn led to deeper discussions, and for one or two people, a lot of hard work.
I am proud of my small, supporting, role in the production of this publication – I hope industry finds it useful and informative, and it can help make our systems more secure and hence safer. And my thanks to LDRA for supporting my involvement in this Group.
The document is available for free download from the IET website.
The new, monthly, ECF gradings are out! This moves to a four-digit ELO-based system.
Although the season was curtailed due to the Covid restrictions, the ECF Gradings have been updated to reflect the season.
My StandardPlay grading is up (to 104E – based on a total of 12 matches), but my RapidPlay grading is down (to 90D – based on 20 matches).
Emily nudges up to 41B (from 36C) , while Isobel nudges up to 11B (from 7A) – both RapidPlay only.
Following my fairly poor showing at the Richmond Rapidplay, it comes as no surprise that my grading has dipped…
Thankfully not by too much…
The “December 2019” gradings are out!
| Andrew | Emily | Isobel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Play | 95E | – | – |
| Rapid Play | 98E | 35D | 7A |
| Blitz | – | – | – |
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