Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!

["William P.Milam" <wmilam@sirius.srl.ford.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> Philip Koopman wrote:
> > Simulink is a viable alternative to pictures-to-code *except* for the
> > Ada requirement for military systems (which may not be that much of an
> > issue for future systems).  It is certainly adequate for at least some
> > aspects of jet engine control applications, and has the advantage of
> > already being a commercial product.
> >
> > I don't own stock in Pratt nor Mathworks, but I am generally familiar
> > with both systems.
> >
> After talking to some folks around here, one of the things which has
> potential is a product called Matrix-x (see http://www.isi.com/) This
> has not actually undergone any study with respect to integration with
> our existing processes (yet), but people in the logic design arena have
> looked it over and pronounced it to be "The Future".

We did that about 11 years ago. Things change.

> We will probably
> take a serious look at integrating it when we come up with a new
> project.

There is a paper out there in SAE land explaining why you might not
want to do that versus the above suggestion. If you are curious send
e-mail.



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