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Experts from Synopsys, Imagination Technologies, and Silicon Labs expand on what they saw at CES 2015 and what it means for hardware and software IP subsystem designers. by Hamilton Carter, Senior Editor The shorter market windows associated with burgeoning IoT and entertainment product offerings are creating new challenges for hardware and software IP designers alike.  We spoke with Eric Huang, …

Android assembly programming, Sample and Hold Time for Dummies, near field communications, and the secret origin of the Udacity functional verification course By Hamilton Carter, Senior Editor The Altera SoC FPGA was selected for Audi’s advanced driver assistance system, (ADAS). How to program in assembly on an ARM/Android device. Mentor’s Josh Rensch provides quirky, irreverent advice on how design and …

Business and technical hardware-software workflows must be combined and shared to be successful, notes Jama Software, Dassault Systemes and ARM.

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Quality assurance testers, analysts and engineers are up to their eyeballs in details. They are the problem seekers, and often, the solvers.

How will end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP) communication, enabled by the adoption of IPv6, affect the Internet-of-Things (IoT)?

Currently, the uncrowded 60GHz spectrum looks to greatly extend Wi-Fi if designers can meet challenges for inexpensive, small and low power modules.