If you talk to anyone with a smartphone or a laptop, you’ll inevitably hear them gripe about the “slow software” or the “spinning wheel.” But do they complain about the processor or other chips in the ...

Development managers and architects for today's system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs can choose from a wide range of development tools and methodologies in order to deliver results in the hardware/software ...

To what extent do the ideas of free software extend to hardware? Is it a moral obligation to make our hardware designs free, just as it is to make our software free? Does maintaining our freedom ...

Scrum has become a popular method for developing and designing software. And why not? There’s clear evidence it improves the resulting software’s quality, shortens time to market, and even increases ...

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

Hardware/software co-design has been talked about, and predicted to be a problem, for at least two decades now. Why has the hardware/software development world not come to an end? In 1999, Wilf ...

Part 1: Different goals and methodologies have long divided hardware and software engineering teams. Some companies have solved these issues, others are working on them. Since the advent of embedded ...

Saab Aerospace used the Scrum method to design the JAS 39 Gripen E, the Swedish strike fighter. This jet plane is faster than the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning, and has similar combat range, but is ...

The problem with today's existing methodologies is that verification issubservient to design. This principle requires a shift in paradigm,especially in designing complex electronic systems. Why?

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Lauro Rizzatti, Verification Consultant Hardware emulation continues to prove itself as a handy tool for ...