During the last two decades, CMOS technologists have used scaling to deal with ever-increasing system complexity and performance requirements. Digital abstraction allowed process technology to evolve ...

In April 1991 Business Week ran a cover story entitled, “I Can’t Work This ?#!!@ Thing,” about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. Today, more than ...

Industrial robotics is scaling at a pace that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. More than 4.7 million industrial robots are now operating globally, with over half a million added each year.

Recent design trends tends to add layers and virtualization even to high-rate and hard real-time systems such as wireless receivers. System-level design tools and high-level frameworks, such as the ...