To be successful in today's global economy, new products must reach the market faster than ever before, forcing a compression of the design cycle. At the same time, silicon gate costs continue to ...

Embedded systems are becoming more common as engineers throughout many industries are placing more and more intelligence onto devices. You can find embedded processors in objects such as shoes, phones ...

Finding ways for embedded systems design engineers to reduce their time to market is a constant theme for silicon providers. There are many different approaches to reducing development time, including ...

Ever-increasing numbers of technologies are converging into the simplest of devices, technologies that expand these devices beyond their main function. A good example is Apple’s iPhone, which combines ...

A graphical user interface (GUI) allows users to interact with graphics appearing on electronic devices (eg, smartphones, tablets and netbooks). Typically, a user interacts with a GUI by pressing ...

By combining proven hardware architectures with reusable graphics software, it helps engineers cut development time, reduce system complexity, and deliver intuitive, visually rich interfaces across ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Goran Paun Striking the ...

You can’t just get by with an average design, especially in a world where retina displays are becoming popular and the blogosphere is becoming more critical of things like how an app and website looks ...

Many positioning stages are characterized by attributes such as light inertial loads, short travel, small footprints, and low cost. Cloud-based simplified graphical tools similar to Mathcad and Matlab ...

Confluence, Atlassian’s wiki-like collaborative workspace, has been around for more than 15 years, and is often a core knowledge-sharing tool for the companies that implement it. But for the most part ...

Recent patent cases have made it more difficult to obtain utility patent protection for some of the functional aspects of computer software. One way to, at least partially, overcome this is to ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published new guidance in the Federal Register on November 17, 2023, that clarifies the requirements for design patents of computer-generated images, icons, and ...