Eric verhulst is an electronics engineer by education (1979). He acquired a
broad experience mostly in the aerospace and defense sector and subsequently
specialised in parallel (embedded) processing along the lines of CSP. In
1989 he created Eonic Systems developing a distributed RTOS, called
Virtuoso. Among the unique features were the "Virtual Single Processor"
programming model and the high performance, well appreciated for parallel
DSP systems. Virtuoso became widely used in a broad range of demanding
applications. The largest target system had about 10000 processors. Virtuoso
was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2001.
In 2003, he set up "Open License Society" (www.openLicenseSociety.org), a
private R&D initiative focusing on developing a unified and systematic
systems engineering methodology. Keywords are "unified semantics", "trustworthy components" and "interacting entities". One of the activities
was the development using formal modeling of OpenComRTOS, a network-centric
RTOS covering target domains from single chip multi-core design to widely
distributed embedded systems. The use of formal techniques contributed to
unique features not available from traditional RTOS designs. He is also
active at Melexis, a supplier of semiconductors for the automotive market,
as head of the embedded software group. He can be contacted at Eric.Verhulst
@ OpenLicenseSociety.org