Last week, I wrote several blog entries that discussed old and obsolete ideas contained in the popular and successful Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM), which ushered in the SOC era back in 1997. I ...

At the intersection of hardware and software architecture, embedded systems are integral in applications including smart devices, wearables, autonomous systems, security and defense technologies, ...

The International Standards Organization (ISO) has created a set of quality standards known as ISO 9000, created to apply to a broad range of industries, including but not limited to embedded hardware ...

Today platform-FPGAs are fabricated in nanometer technologies with multi-million gate densities; hard/soft macros such as embedded processors, RAMs, multipliers, DSP blocks, analog cells and high ...

Here we are, back in New Orleans for another Design Automation Conference. Most DAC visitors arrive in “tool-browsing” mode, casually looking for a faster simulator, more accurate timing extractor or ...

Electrical system complexity is reaching a tipping point across industries, from modern passenger vehicles to sophisticated industrial machines that can now contain nearly 5,000 wiring harnesses. The ...