There is a new job on the semiconductor industry horizon, and its title is systems architect. Custom chip designers like Sondrel acknowledge a growing need for systems architects to coordinate every ...

As Silicon Valley says: "fail fast"—failing safely is a great way to learn faster and really embed important lessons into ...

I mentor young people from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I got my MSEE. When I talk to them, they tell me they’re applying for chip architecture jobs. But when they graduate ...

Madhuri Latha Gondi builds design mobile system architecture supporting high-volume real-time transactions on a global scale.

There is little doubt that the worlds of large-scale data analytics and high performance computing share common features, but when it comes to meshing these two disparate technology (and to a large ...

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Defining device drivers Discussing the difference between architecture-specific and board-specific drivers Providing several examples of different types of device drivers Most embedded hardware ...