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 ...

Hardware and software are two sides of the same coin, but they often live in different worlds. In the past, hardware and software rarely were designed together, and many companies and products failed ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since the rise of mass-produced automobiles, new technologies and performance features have ...

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...

Hardware and software are certainly different beasts. Software is really just information, and the storing, modification, duplication, and transmission of information is essentially free. Hardware is ...

Co.Design recently described how Apple is increasingly making its products harder to use–if easier to sell. I agree with the premise, but I think there’s more to the story. Poor design or not, Apple ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In court, stealing software gets a very different reaction from stealing hardware. If a company stole the PCs it used to run its business (RAM raiding, shoplifting, breaking and entering or credit ...

The Wall Street Journal reports IBM is in acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems. At this point, the companies are refusing to comment on the rumor. If it comes to pass, the acquisition would give ...

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