Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Intel and Microsoft will help fund a new Parallel Computing Lab at the University of California at Berkeley. The effort hopes to take a leading role in the scramble to define a ...

One of the neat things about modern AI is that a whole new generation of people in a field outside of economics (but certainly driving the modern economy) has been introduced to curves showing the ...

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 ...

Before a chip design is turned from a hardware design language (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog into physical hardware, testing and validating the design is an essential step. Yet simulating a HDL design is ...