Designing the hardware-software interface. Dealing with "bytes enables" in RTL verification. Automating the HSI design process across the entire dev team. The hardware-software interface (HSI) holds ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

The importance of ergonomics in hardware design is easy to grasp, if not always simple to carry out. The end goal is to make a device as easy and comfortable to use as possible, both physically and ...

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...