Most computer problems are easily traced to either hardware or software errors. However, it isn't always obvious why your computer won't work, and establishing where the problem lies can often be ...

I recently read fellow Design News contributor Warren Miller’s article entitled “Why Is Hardware So Easy and Software So Hard?,” with great interest. Warren suggested that the design flow for software ...

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 ...

Hardware and software are two sides of the same coin, but they often live in different worlds. In the past, hardware and software rarely were designed together, and many companies and products failed ...

Jim Xiao is the founder and CEO of Mason, innovator of the fastest way to take smart devices from idea to end user. Building secure and private environments for dedicated smart devices is crucial to ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

Ensuring that verification platforms can scale with industry demands and support new use cases as they emerge.

Video game hardware and physical software sales just had their worst November in the United States since 1995, despite the ...

The cloud-based automotive design platform accelerates hardware and software development for ADAS, autonomous driving, and ...

Trimble Inc. (TRMB) earns a buy rating as it transitions from hardware to high-margin industrial software, with the market ...

In this episode of The Full Nerd, the gang crowns their favorite PC hardware, innovations, and trends of 2025.

Perhaps I'm showing my hardware bias, but it seems to me that in the embedded world hardware design has been much easier than software design for many years. I'm talking primarily about digital ...