Take personal media players. From a technological standpoint, products like the iPod could have been developed a decade ago, but they would have been the size of a suitcase. Understandably, more ...

HSI is a critical capability that now has the full attention of the Accellera PSWG and whose absence results in extra work for companies that want to adopt Portable Stimulus tools without some form of ...

Even when you start with a genuinely great idea, moving from software development to designing and building physical tech products isn’t a simple shift. It not only requires your team to learn new ...

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 ...

The semiconductor industry is at an inflection point. The convergence of advanced multi-die architectures, AI-driven workloads, and rapidly evolving interface protocols is creating unprecedented ...

Here on Hackaday, we’re generally designers of hacks that live in the real world. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that some of the most interesting feats are at the mercy of what’s possible in software, ...

Computer storage is becoming more complicated (see “The Storage Hierarchy Gets More Complex”). Users now can choose between hard disks (HDs), solid-state disks (SSDs), and solid-state hard disks ...

There is an interesting multi-effect available for all you musicians out there. It’s the Turnado from Sugar Bytes. It’s a real-time effects unit that takes advantage of a computer’s horsepower to add ...

From the earliest days of my career, when designing chips, I have always navigated the interface between hardware and software for semiconductor design in my roles. My initial chip designs included ...