Silicon real estate advances have inevitably led to the complete integration of microprocessor subsystems together with custom hardware and software on single devices. This advancement has brought ...

Designing hardware and software simultaneously is a key factor in reducing time-to-market. Although some vendors are talking about tools to facilitate the task, we still have a long way to go before ...

Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture is a first dive into understanding embedded architectures and writing software to manipulate this hardware. You will gain experience writing low-level ...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in the software development process for electronic products is that hardware is not available until late in the cycle. That means embedded software developers need to ...

Embedded software, once a challenge to write, update, and optimize, is following the route of other types of software. It is abstracted, simpler to use, and much faster to write. But in some cases, it ...

Enabling a closed-loop behavioral representation of a vehicle’s software and hardware systems for continuous validation throughout the product lifecycle. The rising intelligence and connectivity of ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and more, embedded systems, so-called for their habitat inside other systems, have been flushed out of hiding and into the hands of billions of ...

The influence of PCI Express, both with PCIe Gen 4 and the emergence of PCIe Gen 5. HBM and its support for ray tracing. Why RISC-V and small FPGAs will become more pervasive. The plight of ...

Take personal media players. From a technological standpoint, products like the iPod could have been developed a decade ago, but they would have been the size of a suitcase. Understandably, more ...

In a recent article in Integrated Communications Design, Mike Downing interviews Curt Schacker, vice president of corporate marketing for Wind River Systems. In the interview, Schacker expresses his ...