Embedded software is becoming more critical in managing the power and performance of complex designs, but so far there is no consensus about the best way to approach it—and that’s creating problems.

Agile methodologies, created to improve quality in software code, increasingly are being applied to hardware verification. This is less of a drastic shift than it might first appear. Developing a ...

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The allure of open-source hardware is the flexibility for designers to create their own CPU-based platforms. Advocates believe that freely available open-source systems will encourage a new wave of ...

Nowadays, there is a universe of open-source projects consisting of code, libraries and binaries from different sources. The open-source code and binaries are freely available from public repositories ...

Aerospace and Automotive industries are growing rapidly, from mechanical controls to electronic controls. This has increased the complexity of software running on powerful airborne hardware/systems.

It is undeniable that modern society is very dependent on software. Governments and employers rely on databases that keep sensitive and personal information. Hospitals rely on machines and software ...

One of the most difficult challenges in SoC verification today is determining how to make sure the hardware and software work together at the SoC level. The commonly deployed process is to verify the ...