This paper introduces a new trend in hardware design and development — open-source hardware. It defines open-source hardware design terms, features and requirements. It presents FPGA-based platforms ...

We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

The management of hardware and software assets has become much more complex since the days when the corporate user had one PC on the corporate LAN running a small number of applications. These days, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes,” is a quote attributed to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). The current state of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements remind me much of the 1970s and ...