Editor's Note: Designing a robust hardware/firmware interface is not a simple process. It's no accident that engineers charged with this task are generally the more senior and experienced engineers on ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...

Data loss is bad enough, but having that data fall into someone else's hands -- especially if they happen to be the wrong hands -- can be disastrous. While in an ideal we shouldn't be losing data in ...

It is hard to imagine performing research without the help of scientific computing. The days of scientists working only at a lab bench or poring over equations are rapidly fading. Today, experiments ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Lauro Rizzatti, Verification Consultant Hardware emulation continues to prove itself as a handy tool for ...

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 ...

Engineers embrace model-based design in many different disciplines associated with product development, for example, finite element analysis in mechanical engineering and circuit simulation for ...

In a recent column, "A Better Way To Upgrade Hyper-V Storage," I mentioned that I was preparing to do a hardware refresh on my badly outdated Hyper-V servers. Although I ran into a few surprises along ...

They mightn’t be shouting it from the rooftops but PC manufacturers have a dark secret – the desktop PC has become a commodity, a mass-produced unspecialised product that is primarily bought on the ...