The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for new ways to replace legacy code and decouple it from hardware, a key modernization objective touted by senior Pentagon IT officials ...

Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things ...

Today at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT, OSHWA, the Open Source Hardware Association has announced a huge revision to the Open Hardware certification process. The goal here is to design a better ...

In theory, any piece of software could be built out of discrete pieces of hardware, provided there are enough transistors, passive components, and time available. In general, though, we’re much more ...

Some online MS-ECE courses will ask you to apply your knowledge through software simulations or hardware configurations. Individual courses will list their specific requirements. This page provides a ...

IBM is for the first time ever bringing its hardware and software partners under one roof into a Global Business Partner Group in a move designed to push the $100 billion IT goliath into an age of ...

It doesn't matter whether a true invention is implemented in hardware or software, it should still be patentable, argues Marty Goetz — the man who was granted the first software patent in 1965.

MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by Damien ...

Google is still best known for its search engine and Android operating system. However, the company is swiftly becoming a major hardware player too. Between smartphones, smart home, and IoT ventures, ...