It has long been a goal to put realistic prototypes or models into system developer's hands as soon as possible. This has been accomplished with FPGAs, C language models and sometimes co-simulation ...

Dear Final Debug: I’m not a tech person, but I have to deal with tech people every day in my job, so I have to understand what they’re talking about. In a meeting recently, they were all talking about ...

Although many Linux developers are only now discovering the combination of a scripting language and a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, this sort of development environment is not new. The ...

Functional testing of system-on-chip (SoC) software is difficult, especially when mature hardware doesn't exist yet. In this article Michael Orr, vice president of technology and product management at ...

The article explains an alternative approach to Makefile, based on YAML, a structured and human-readable configuration format ...

1 Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Korea Univ. 2 Korea semiconductor Intellectual Property Exchange Org. 3 Wireless SOC R&D Center, Mewtel Inc. We present a reusable integrated design ...

The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing ...

Any viable company has to react quickly to gain or regain an edge over its competitors. For companies that rely on their Websites to generate revenue, this means frequent changes to those Websites.

All script writers need to deal with textual data at one time or another. One of the most powerful tools for manipulating text in the free software world is the text widget found in the Tk graphical ...