From the earliest days of my career, when designing chips, I have always navigated the interface between hardware and software for semiconductor design in my roles. My initial chip designs included ...

Designing the hardware-software interface. Dealing with "bytes enables" in RTL verification. Automating the HSI design process across the entire dev team. The hardware-software interface (HSI) holds ...

In today’s semiconductor landscape, scale is becoming a bigger battleground—not only for chipmakers, but increasingly for hyperscalers, cloud giants, and other systems companies, too. They're all ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Sanjukta Mitra, a tech industry pioneer, bridges the once-impermeable divide between the physical and digital worlds. Her innovative ...

Kent Helfrich is Chief Technology Officer and President of GM Ventures, and VP of Global R&D at General Motors. Since the rise of mass-produced automobiles, new technologies and performance features ...

The software-defined vehicle is no longer a future concept. Digital cockpits, over-the-air updates, and software-driven feature roadmaps are already shaping today’s vehicles. Yet, as automakers ...

Software engineers have a host of tooling to organize their projects, chief being Git software like GitLab or GitHub, but hardware engineers today lack that same organizing principle. They are stuck ...

Software-defined hardware may be the ultimate Shift Left approach as chip design grows closer to true co-design than ever with potential capacity baked into the hardware, and greater functionality ...

Even when you start with a genuinely great idea, moving from software development to designing and building physical tech products isn’t a simple shift. It not only requires your team to learn new ...

As the 2025-26 academic year comes to a close, many graduating seniors are getting ready to enter the professional world. For the athletes, many... Discover why hardware engineering skills are in ...