Investment in software requirements management, equal to that made for design and coding, is necessary to secure a firm foundation on which to construct a successful project.

Configuration management systems help to deliver coordinated high quality and highly reliable software and hardware by easily identifying features and functional content within a particular software and hardware availability

This three part series describes Fault Tree Analysis for safety evaluation, and use of the UML profiling mechanism to create a safety analysis profile, including the definition of its normative metamodel. Part 3: FTA of a surgical anesthesia ventilator.

Expect to see RF replace IR in your array of wireless remote controls.

In this editorial from TAOS Inc., a closer look is taken at the "Going Green" initiative from the point-of-view of the display manufacturer. Particularly, how the right light sensing solutions can improve the energy efficiency of your display.

: This three part series describes use of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) in safety-critical design, taking advantage of UML profiling to create a safety analysis profile, including the definition of its normative metamodel. Part 2: Defining a UML Profile for Safety Analysis.

This three part series describes use of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) in safety-critical design, taking advantage of UML profiling to create a safety analysis profile, including the definition of its normative metamodel. Part 1: The basics of safety & capturing of fault metadata for analysis.

The authors describe how system designers can employ IAR's embedded development tools to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the Cortex-M3 32-bit MCU, running Micrium's uC/OS II RTOS

Stephane Hauradou compares various approaches to implementing PCI Express on FPGAs to the PLDA EZDMA module interface wrapper to provide a simple and robust user interface with PCI Express hard IP.

Using a simple over-voltage protection circuit prevents the rapid rise in an on controlled manner of the output voltage to a string of LEDs, until the output capacitors, diode and/or the power FET are overstressed and destroyed.

No one cares about your career except you. Or, do you?

PPTC protection devices can help meet the new current demands of USB 3.0

A new algorithm using only addition and subtraction and no complicated math produces the linear acceleration necessary to run a step motor smoothly.

Texas Instruments recently announced its next-generation application processor family, OMAP 4 for smart phones and mobile internet devices (MIDs); BDTI went inside to explore its design and what makes it tick so well.

If you are reluctant to give up the C programming, there are ways to stay with that well-tested and reliable language, without giving up some of the advantages of newer languages such as C##, C# and Java.

A new approach to UML/SysML design is needed that separates modeling system understanding from modeling system design and allows all system stakeholders to collaborate regarding their expectations of then system's behavior

A straightforward guide to adding structure to your software project using a finite state machine design pattern, requiring no exceptional knowledge other than basic programming and some common sense.