Understanding how hardware and firmware/software work together to perform desired functions or tasks is an important enabler to unlocking the value of intellectual properties in the systems (including ...

Because of the high cost of chip fabrication, it is beneficial to find and fix bugs and design flaws during the design phase. But schedule constraints limit the amount of testing that can be performed ...

How you organize your firmware project might seem like a minor detail. It isn't. It's one of the highest-leverage decisions ...

When we first tested the RunCore Pro IV solid state drives we had no idea that the Indilinx Barefoot firmware would be updated more often than your typical motherboards BIOS. Some people may be a ...

Given the short timing of this project we're just going to dive right in and get to work on this one. Just a month ago OCZ Technology released their new flagship consumer SSD, the Vertex 4. In our ...

Recently, I had a conversation with Paul Gerrard, the internationally renowned, award-winning software engineering consultant, author, and coach. We discussed the fact that testing is at the heart of ...

Every developer and team I’ve ever met has wanted to deliver quality firmware to their customers. No one starts out saying, “I want to deliver a buggy, unusable product to my customer.” Yet, how often ...

The next major firmware update for PS4, version 5.50, will soon begin testing. Like all major PS4 firmware updates, Sony is looking for players to test out the features ahead of time. The company did ...

Virtual machines beat sandboxes for testing untrusted software, and here's why I switched ...

In software testing, Agentic AI changes how testing is handled across applications. Instead of relying solely on fixed scripts and manual effort, teams can use intelligent agents that understand ...