Components and subsystems that form large, complex systems such as automobiles and aircraft need testing before the entire system is built. An engine-control unit (ECU) for example, has numerous ...

“Hardware generators help designers explore families of concrete designs and their efficiency trade-offs. Both parameterized hardware description languages (HDLs) and higher-level programming models, ...

The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

Nearly every embedded system requires some level of security, whether its just the basics to lock down the programming port or something more complex to protect a connected device from hackers. For ...

The EDA industry has evolved into a case study on specialization. This was not true in the early days, when the MDV (Mentor, Daisy, Valid) trio dashed onto the world stage. All three were one-stop ...

NASA built a spacecraft computer that can lose three systems mid-flight and still keep astronauts alive 250,000 miles from ...