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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost all software designs naturally incorporate some aspects of component separation. Whether intentionally designed or accidental, components will naturally encapsulate functionality and separate ...

The importance of ergonomics in hardware design is easy to grasp, if not always simple to carry out. The end goal is to make a device as easy and comfortable to use as possible, both physically and ...