Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order ...

One of the neat things about modern AI is that a whole new generation of people in a field outside of economics (but certainly driving the modern economy) has been introduced to curves showing the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices published Tuesday (Aug 14) the first of several plans to extend the x86 instruction set to ease the job of programming multicore processors. With the move, ...

Gluing hardware and software together to make a customized test system is an evolving science. Small companies of specialists have mastered the techniques of system design to integrate system building ...

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 ...

Before a chip design is turned from a hardware design language (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog into physical hardware, testing and validating the design is an essential step. Yet simulating a HDL design is ...

Hardware/software partitioning algorithms are fundamental in the design of modern embedded systems, where the allocation of functionalities between hardware accelerators and software components is ...

Recognizing the challenges of integrating eight or more cores on a single processor, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based microprocessor supplier Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has released today a new specification ...

The choice of GPU in 2026 defines not only speed but also creative freedom and productivity. Many professionals now question ...