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 ...

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 ...

High service availability is an essential requirement of today's carrier-grade communication systems that must provide uninterrupted service for their users. Traditional high-availability systems have ...

Hardware and firmware engineering design teams often run into problems and conflicts when trying to work together. They come from different development environments, have different tool sets and use ...

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 ...

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 ...