Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The barriers between hardware and software design and verification are breaking down with more intricately integrated systems, bringing together different disciplines and tools. But there are ...

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 ...

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 ...