Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Hardware/software co-design is when the software and hardware are developed simultaneously, bringing the software and hardware teams together to optimize a design. The initial idea behind co-design ...

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and ...

SHIM’s primary goal is to define an architecture description standard useful for software design. Some architectural features that SHIM describes are the hardware topology including processor cores, ...

The cost/performance ratio of FPGAs has dramatically improved over the past ten years while ASICs have grown to large system-on-chip designs. The electronic design automation industry has evolved ...