Table of Contents & List of Exhibits
TELECOM / DATACOM
TRACK 3, VOLUME 7: MARKET STATISTICS
2010 SERVICE YEAR
Embedded Software & Tools Practice
Steve Balacco, Director
Chris Rommel, Senior Analyst
Jared Weiner, Analyst
Cyril Bernard, Account Executive
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Embedded Sorftware Tools Practice
2010 Service Year
Track 2: Embedded System Market Statistics
Volume 7: Telecom / Datacom
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This document presents the Table of Contents and List of Exhibits from: Volume 7: Telecom / Datacom, part of VDC Research Group’s 2010 Embedded
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Jared Weiner, Analyst, 508.653.9000 x143, jweiner@vdcresearch.com
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Table of Contents
Executive Findings
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Scope, Methodology & Definitions
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Embedded systems market statistics model
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Embedded systems market statistics model
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Embedded systems engineering survey
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Definitions – embedded system / device
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Embedded engineering types
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Definitions – embedded engineering types
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Definitions – regions
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Definitions – industries
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Definitions – products / services type
Survey Demographics
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Key Industry Trends
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General market trends – telecom / datacom
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System engineering trends – telecom / datacom
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Project Statistics
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Labor Statistics
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Solution Statistics
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Total Market for Embedded Software Engineering (TMESE)
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List of Exhibits
Section I: Survey Demographics
Exhibit I-1
Survey Respondents Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent of Respondents, N = 54)
Exhibit I-2
Survey Respondents Segmented by Geographic Sub-Region (Percent of Respondents, N = 54)
Exhibit I-3
Survey Respondents Segmented by Type of Company Worked for (Percent of Respondents, N = 54)
Exhibit I-4
Survey Respondents Segmented by Primary Role within the Company (Percent of Respondents, N = 54)
Exhibit I-5
Survey Respondents Segmented by Type of Product Project team is Developing (Percent of Respondents, N = 54)
Exhibit I-6
Survey Respondents Segmented by Industry Application Product is Targeted to (Percent of Respondents, N = 51)
Section II: Embedded System Engineering Project Statistics
Exhibit II-1
Estimate of the Global Number of Embedded System Project Starts in 2009 and 2010 (VDC Modeled Estimate)
Exhibit II-2
Number of Different Projects Started at Company Every Year (Average of Respondents, N = 51)
Exhibit II-3
Number of Different Projects Started at Company Every Year (Percent of Respondents, N = 51)
Exhibit II-4
Total Cost of Development for the Current Project (Average of Respondents, N = 30)
Exhibit II-5
Total Cost of Development for the Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 30)
Exhibit II-6
Percent of Total Development Cost Attributed to Software Development (Average of Respondents, N = 32)
Exhibit II-7
Percent of Total Development Cost Attributed to Software Development (Percent of Respondents, N = 32)
Exhibit II-8
Percentage of Total Software Development Cost Attributed to Licensing Commercial Software (Average of Respondents, N = 32)
Exhibit II-9
Percentage of Total Software Development Cost Attributed to Licensing Commercial Software (Percent of Respondents, N = 32)
Exhibit II-10
Estimate of the Approximate per Unit Production Cost of the Current Embedded Product Respondents are Developing
(Average of Respondents, N = 31)
Exhibit II-11
Estimated Costs of Components as Percentages of the Per Unit Production Cost (Average of Respondents, N = 30)
Exhibit II-12
Was the Current Project Completed Ahead of Schedule, Behind Schedule, Or On-Time? (Percent of Respondents, N = 30)
Exhibit II-13
Total Project Length in Calendar Months (Average of Respondents, N = 44)
Exhibit II-14
Total Project Length in Calendar Months (Percent of Respondents, N = 44)
Exhibit II-15
Respondent's Estimation of Factors Most Attributable to Project's Delay (Percent of Respondents, N = 13)
Exhibit II-16
Annual Tools Budget for Software/System Engineers Working on This Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit II-17
Outsourcing of Engineering Work in Various Engineering Categories (Percent of Respondents, N = 34)
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Section III: Embedded System Engineering Labor Statistics
Exhibit III-1
Estimate of Global Number of Embedded Systems Engineers Working for Embedded Systems Manufacturers (VDC Modeled Estimate)
Exhibit III-2
Project Tasks That Engineers Are Personally Involved in on the Current Project (Percent of Respondents)
Exhibit III-3
Percent of Time Spent in Various Engineering Tasks (Average of Respondents)
Exhibit III-4
Engineer Age (Average of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit III-5
Engineer Age (Percent of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit III-6
Years Spent Designing Embedded Systems (Average of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit III-7
Years Spent Designing Embedded Systems (Percent of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit III-8
Years Spent Working for Current Company (Average of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit III-9
Years Spent Working for Current Company (Percent of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit III-10
Annual Salary (Average of Respondents)
Exhibit III-11
Annual Salary (Percent of Respondents)
Exhibit III-12
Estimated Fully-loaded Labor Cost for A Typical Engineer Working At Your Company (Percent of Respondents)
Exhibit III-13
Impressions of the Health of the Current Engineering Job Market As Compared to Previous Year (Percent of Respondents)
Exhibit III-14
Estimate of Number of Full-time Engineers Working on Current Project by Type (Average of Respondents, N = 44)
Exhibit III-15
Estimate of Number of Full-time Engineers Working At Company by Type (Average of Respondents, N = 50)
Section IV: Embedded Software Engineering Solution Statistics
Exhibit IV-1
Embedded Software Engineering Commercial Solutions Spend in 2009 and 2010 (VDC Modeled Estimate, US$ Millions)
Exhibit IV-2
Number of Units Shipped Per Year for the Embedded Product You Are Developing (Percent of Respondents)
Exhibit IV-3
Estimate of the Per Unit/Device Sale Price (Average of Respondents, N = 31)
Exhibit IV-4
Per Unit Retail Value of the Embedded Product You Are Developing (Percent of Respondents)
Exhibit IV-5
Number of Embedded Devices/Systems Shipped By Your Company in 2009 (Average of Respondents, N = 22)
Exhibit IV-6
Number of Embedded Devices/Systems Shipped By Your Company in 2009 (Percent of Respondents, N = 22)
Exhibit IV-7
Percentage of Devices/Systems Shipped in 2009 at Respondents' Companies by OS type (Average of Respondents, N = 20)
Exhibit IV-8
Percentage of Devices/Systems Shipped in 2009 at Respondents' Companies by OS type (Average of Respondents Weighted
By 2009 Unit Shipments, N = 20)
Exhibit IV-9
Is Product A New Design Or A Revision to An Existing Design? (Percent of Respondents, N = 54)
Exhibit IV-10
Description of the Processing Unit(s) Used on the Current Design (Percent of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit IV-11
Characterization of the Processor Design on the Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 27)
Exhibit IV-12
Respondents Experience Working with/Programming Multicore and/or Multiprocessor Designs (Percent of Respondents, N = 26)
Exhibit IV-13
Other Software Stack Components Required by Current Device/system (Percent of Respondents, N = 24)
Exhibit IV-14
Processor family(ies) of Processor(s) Used within the Embedded System/device Currently being Designed
(Percent of Respondents, N = 21)
Exhibit IV-15
Primary Host Development Environment Used for Current Development Projects (Percent of Respondents, N = 29)
Exhibit IV-16
Type of Operating System(s) Used for the Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 23)
Exhibit IV-17
Importance of Embedded Operating System Characteristics during OS Selection for Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 22)
Exhibit IV-18
Number of Commercial/third Party Lines of Software Code in Final Design for Current Project (Average of Respondents, N = 18)
Exhibit IV-19
Number of Commercial/third Party Lines of Software Code in Final Design for Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 18)
Exhibit IV-20
Number of Open Source/third-party Lines of Software Code in Final Design for Current Project (Average of Respondents, N = 20)
Exhibit IV-21
Number of Open Source/third-party Lines of Software Code in Final Design for Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 20)
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Exhibit IV-22
Number of In-house Developed Lines of Software Code That Will Go into the Final Design (Average of Respondents, N = 22)
Exhibit IV-23
Number of In-house Developed Lines of Software Code That Will Go into the Final Design (Percent of Respondents, N = 22)
Exhibit IV-24
Expected Increase/Decrease in the Percent of Lines of Software Code on the Next Project (Average of Respondents)
Exhibit IV-25
Source of In-house Developed Software Code for Current Project (Mean of Respondents, N = 25 )
Exhibit IV-26
Types of Tools Personally Used on the Current Project for Software/System Engineering (Percent of Respondents, N = 29)
Exhibit IV-27
Types of Lifecycle Management Tools Personally Used on the Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 29)
Exhibit IV-28
Most Important Characteristics When Selecting Current Projects' IDE(s) (Percent of Respondents, N = 14)
Exhibit IV-29
Software/System Design/Programming Methodologies Used on the Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 26)
Exhibit IV-30
Programming Languages Used on Current Project
Section V: Total Market for Embedded Software Engineering
Exhibit V-1
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Total Market for Embedded Software Engineering (TMESE) in 2009 and 2010 (VDC Modeled Estimate, US$ Millions)
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