We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

The phrase software-defined networking (SDN) was coined when it was necessary to distinguish the concept from the hardware-based variety. Since that time, "SDN" has come to mean the type of dynamic ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...

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 ...

The core concepts in hardware-software co-design are getting another look, nearly two decades after this approach was first introduced and failed to catch on. What’s different this time around is the ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...

The management of hardware and software assets has become much more complex since the days when the corporate user had one PC on the corporate LAN running a small number of applications. These days, ...

The defense industry is having a software moment. From the playfulness of Platform One’s cheeky and geeky “Waterfall, Only You Can Prevent” Smokey-the-Bear-meets-Yoda logo to its serious requirements ...