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 ...

From circuit simulation to embedded firmware testing and PCB design, Proteus lets you see how hardware and code work together ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research has identified a WiFi vulnerability that allows attackers within wireless range to repeatedly crash or reboot ...

Discovered during fuzz testing, the bug affects Broadcom chipset software and requires a manual router reboot after each ...

Intel announced plans today to open-source a new firmware security testing tool named HBFA --or the Host-based Firmware Analyzer. The new project, a security testing tool for UEFI-based firmware, will ...

Unlike desktop-application software, embedded software has specific functions that operate in a predetermined manner. Because an embedded-systems engineer knows what computations and operations 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 ...

Those wanting to download drivers, firmware and software for Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, Surface Book & other Surface devices can do so from the Microsoft Download Center. It is essential, for ...