engineering education

Continued Operational Assurance in Software-Defined Medical Devices

Continued Operational Assurance in Software-Defined Medical Devices

In his latest video interview EPDT’s Editor-in-Chief Mike Green talks with Andreas Lifvendahl, CEO of Percepio about the emerging era of software-defined medical devices and how consistent behaviour can be maintained on an ongoing basis.

Clinical trials are an ideal opportunity not only to validate clinical outcomes but also to understand software behaviour under real operating conditions.

“Today it’s a lot of ad hoc debugging… then you remove the printf’s and alike completely, and then you’re basically flying blind from that point on. … But development never stops. We are only a small piece of a much larger puzzle—but it’s a puzzle that is rapidly growing and evolving” says Lifvendahl, CEO at Percepio.

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The hidden flaw in real-time systems teaching

The hidden flaw in real-time systems teaching

Florent Goutailler, Associate Professor at Télécom Saint-Etienne, describes how adding a runtime visualisation tool to his FreeRTOS course closed that gap – and transformed the way his students approach engineering problems.

“For many years, I observed the same pattern: students could write code that compiled and ran, but when something didn’t behave as expected, they struggled to understand why.”

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