Paul Tiplady

I'm a Principal Software Design Engineer with TRW Automotive in the UK.

I don't actually do software at the moment, cos I spend all my time looking for new (better) ways of doing it. My problem, as I see it, is that most of the software guys out there are writing stuff to run on big computers with databases and GUIs and customers who have a reasonable idea of what they want. In automotive, we have maybe 10k RAM (yes that's a k, not an M) and 256k ROM, and 5ms cycle times. We have all the safety pressure of aerospace (but none of the time and money) and all the time-to-market and cost pressures of communications (without the ability to shrug off code failures as 'one of those things').

Anyone with any similar experiences or good (relevant) ideas should feel free to send mailto:paul.tiplady@trw.com

I should point out (as have others) that any opinions I may have expressed within these pages may not be the opinions of my employers, either present or past.

CategoryHomePage