Creating hard tech is no walk in the park. The process is complex, the costs are high and the challenges are plentiful. But despite all that, it's still worth pursuing. In this article, we'll take a ...

A durable time‑to‑market advantage in hardware development comes from deliberately designing for scale from day one.

Config is the software that founder James Proud wishes he had at his last startup Hello, maker of sleep tracker Sense. “Config would have been a lifesaver for us at Hello and had a massive positive ...

Embedded systems were incorporated into commercial automobiles around the 1970s. At first, these embedded systems were used to control the timing of fuel-injection systems, a substantial improvement ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 20, 2016) - Fictiv, a manufacturing platform, is fundamentally transforming the hardware development process by giving small businesses and enterprises access to ...

You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things that software companies don’t really have to worry about. That includes pesky details such as ...

It was only a matter of time before an established electronic system-level (ESL) vendor cast an eye toward creating virtual hardware platforms. The concept of virtual hardware platforms isn't new, but ...

The concept of the integrated development environment is gaining wide attention in the system-on-chip industry. When most people speak of an IDE, they are focused only on software, and indeed the ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

Demonstrating the importance of security doesn’t get much more memorable than Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek successfully hacking a Jeep and driving it into a ditch. The effects of that drive have ...