Philippe MILLET

Philippe MILLET
This is my first Edito.
I am currently in charge of parallel computer architecture modification in my company.
This company has been working up to now with private technology.
If looking twenty years ago, we were doing everything :
software, boards, but chips also (mainly ASGa).
My company business is not computer but big systems,
anyway, there were no choice in this time because COTS was not at a level high enough for the real-time constraints required.
Time going on, chips from the market became more sophisticated and it was not possible to continue to develop the activity at a correct level, so the company started to buy standard chips to build up there own parallel computer architecture based on DSPs and FPGAs.
From this time, the middleware is completely "home made" from C language, with "home made" message formats, "home made" interrupt routines... Everything "home-made".
Off course, it correspond well to the architecture, may be too well, but it is now old enough (16 years) for the company to ask it-self the question :
Is there enough interest for the company to continue developing such a middleware or is there any at the market which could be used for our business.
I am thus investigating technology which could be used to serve us.
While I will learn and train, I will maintain this blog to keep ideas of my researches.