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development backgrounds. Last year we moved into Synerleap which is an innovation growth hub where ABB enables small technology companies to expand and flourish.
You recently partnered with other embedded system vendors to form the ETA (Embedded Tools Alliance). Can you tell us more about why this alliance was formed and what it will really do for embedded developers?
Embedded systems is a very fragmented market. The Embedded Tools Alliance is a collaboration between a group of specialised embedded tool vendors focusing on increased compatibility and better combined user experience. Combined together, all the members provide best-in-class solutions for embedded developers seeking the widest range of features to help complete their project on time, with the best possible technical results and highest quality. The first concrete result from this is a technical integration between SOMNIUM and Percepio, that makes it very easy to use Tracealyzer from the SOMNIUM IDE.
Your early academic work was clearly an influence on the unique visualisation aspect of your technology. Can you tell us about this time, what you studied and how you were drawn to this topic?
Tracealyzer was a side-effect of my PhD project, in collaboration with ABB Robotics. During the first few years I worked half the time as an embedded software developer within this company,
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which was a great learning experience and made my PhD project very “hands- on”. The project was about different ways of predicting worst-case response times in complex RTOS-based systems, a project that also included static analysis, discrete event simulation and genetic algorithms. I’m quite fascinated by robotics, especially the amazing accuracy at blazing speeds made possible with computer control.
What do you like to do when you're not at work?
When I get some free time, I really enjoy being out in nature, hiking, fishing, sailing, downhill skiing. Or just playing video games with my kids.
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You've clearly always been involved in complex embedded software but if you hadn't followed this route, where do you think you might have been today?
It’s really rather difficult to say. I would probably have been developing some
other kind of software. I have always been a techie and was talking about starting an engineering company when I was seven years old. I didn’t know much about software then, but I have always been designing and building technical stuff.
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