Understanding how hardware and firmware/software work together to perform desired functions or tasks is an important enabler to unlocking the value of intellectual properties in the systems (including ...

Because of the high cost of chip fabrication, it is beneficial to find and fix bugs and design flaws during the design phase. But schedule constraints limit the amount of testing that can be performed ...

Every developer and team I’ve ever met has wanted to deliver quality firmware to their customers. No one starts out saying, “I want to deliver a buggy, unusable product to my customer.” Yet, how often ...

Samsung is leaving everything ready for the release of its first tri-folding phone, the Galaxy Z TriFold. Despite years of patents and speculation surrounding the complex design, a market debut ...

Given the short timing of this project we're just going to dive right in and get to work on this one. Just a month ago OCZ Technology released their new flagship consumer SSD, the Vertex 4. In our ...

After completing a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, I decided to pursue my love of writing and video games by entering the world of video game ...

Intel announced plans today to open-source a new firmware security testing tool named HBFA --or the Host-based Firmware Analyzer. The new project, a security testing tool for UEFI-based firmware, will ...

Software-defined radios, instrumentation and test are ramping up alongside a flood of new technologies related to assisted and autonomous vehicles, 5G, and military/aerospace electronics, breathing ...

Sony has kicked off beta testing of a new PS4 firmware. PS4 owners who previously signed up to be notified of future firmware beta tests, have received a new message highlighting an upcoming firmware ...

End-to-end (E2E) testing is a software testing methodology that verifies the working order of a software product in a start-to-finish process. End-to-end testing verifies that all components of a ...