Building a bridge between physical hardware and digital logic feels like trying to teach two different species how to dance in perfect harmony. You might start with a brilliant idea for a smart device ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Sanjukta Mitra, a tech industry pioneer, bridges the once-impermeable divide between the physical and digital worlds. Her innovative ...

Designing the hardware-software interface. Dealing with "bytes enables" in RTL verification. Automating the HSI design process across the entire dev team. The hardware-software interface (HSI) holds ...

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 ...

Solution Integration: Integration of acquired silicon-proven Magillem 5 and Semifore CSRCompiler products into a next-generation ‘single source of truth’ software product for register management and ...

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 ...

Decoupling application logic from hardware lets engineers test firmware on host machines instead of waiting for dev boards.

In today’s semiconductor landscape, scale is becoming a bigger battleground—not only for chipmakers, but increasingly for hyperscalers, cloud giants, and other systems companies, too. They're all ...

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 ...

Kent Helfrich is Chief Technology Officer and President of GM Ventures, and VP of Global R&D at General Motors. Since the rise of mass-produced automobiles, new technologies and performance features ...

Most tech projects fail because they rush to build the final product before testing the basics or drowning the team in too ...