Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gluing hardware and software together to make a customized test system is an evolving science. Small companies of specialists have mastered the techniques of system design to integrate system building ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices published Tuesday (Aug 14) the first of several plans to extend the x86 instruction set to ease the job of programming multicore processors. With the move, ...

Before a chip design is turned from a hardware design language (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog into physical hardware, testing and validating the design is an essential step. Yet simulating a HDL design is ...

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 ...

Recognizing the challenges of integrating eight or more cores on a single processor, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based microprocessor supplier Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has released today a new specification ...