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 ...

Perhaps I'm showing my hardware bias, but it seems to me that in the embedded world hardware design has been much easier than software design for many years. I'm talking primarily about digital ...

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 ...

What are the five core principles of hardware/software co-design? How do these principles help build a geographically diverse engineering organization that can successfully develop complex solutions ...

Since 2010, Juliana has been a professional writer in the technology and small business worlds. She has both journalism and copywriting experience and is exceptional at distilling complex concepts ...

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 ...

I recently read fellow Design News contributor Warren Miller’s article entitled “Why Is Hardware So Easy and Software So Hard?,” with great interest. Warren suggested that the design flow for software ...