Editor's Note: Designing a robust hardware/firmware interface is not a simple process. It's no accident that engineers charged with this task are generally the more senior and experienced engineers on ...

Designing for compatibility means to design in such a way as to facilitate, where possible, the ability for any version of firmware and any version of hardware to be paired up. Cell phones are a good ...

Linux is soaring in popularity as an operating system (OS) in both the commercial and technical environments. One thing lagging behind, though, is the availability of drivers for data acquisition and ...

A standard that is gaining broad acceptance and adoption in embedded systems in a variety of markets is the Service Availability Forum’s Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). It is one of three it has ...

Fig 1. Mobile phones saw incredible growth and evolution from 2000 to 2011, with functionality that rivals many personal computers. Fig 2. With the right interface, you can turn your mobile phone into ...

Before there was a mainstream open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) like RISC-V, a computer processor's software/hardware interface was generally defined by processor architects. The ...

If you’ve worked with a microcontroller, you’re probably somewhat familiar with vendor-supplied hardware abstraction layers. A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is a software layer that provides a high ...

A hardware interface specifies the plugs, sockets, cables and electrical signals that pass through each line between the CPU and a peripheral device or communications network. It also stipulates which ...