Designing the hardware-software interface. Dealing with "bytes enables" in RTL verification. Automating the HSI design process across the entire dev team. The hardware-software interface (HSI) holds ...

Software components are “binary units of independent production, acquisition, and deployment that interact to form a functioning system.”1 In basic terms, software components are pieces of software ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...

Creating consistent and proper interfaces for reusable software modules is one of the most critical and overlooked aspects of embedded software design. Interfaces are usually developed on the fly with ...