I recently read fellow Design News contributor Warren Miller’s article entitled “Why Is Hardware So Easy and Software So Hard?,” with great interest. Warren suggested that the design flow for software ...

What are the five core principles of hardware/software co-design? How do these principles help build a geographically diverse engineering organization that can successfully develop complex solutions ...

After decades of relying on single-core processors to power everything from flight controls to cockpit instrumentation panels, it appears avionics manufacturers are ready to embrace multi-core ...

Developing robust automation and control systems in manufacturing facilities has historically been dominated by proprietary technology stacks. While this offered users highly reliable and ...

Defining device drivers Discussing the difference between architecture-specific and board-specific drivers Providing several examples of different types of device drivers Most embedded hardware ...

Hardware/software partitioning algorithms are fundamental in the design of modern embedded systems, where the allocation of functionalities between hardware accelerators and software components is ...