As autonomous systems, connected devices, and AI technologies continue to come online, engineering teams are finding it more difficult to rely on traditional development methods. As the sophistication ...

Safety and reliability have moved to the top of the list of critical criteria in software development. There are many ways to achieve improved safety and reliability, and one of the best is to employ ...

Formal methods constitute a suite of mathematically based techniques that are employed to specify, develop, and verify software systems with a high degree of rigour. These techniques aim to transform ...

A laptop computer runs desktop configuration software at the 60th Communications Squadron computer warehouse at Travis Air Force Base, California, Sept. 11, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch) ...

Formal methods provide a rigorous mathematical foundation for the specification, development and verification of medical device software. This approach enhances both reliability and safety, which are ...

Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency have begun nudging Defense Department managers to utilize idling DARPA cybersecurity tools meant to preempt hacks and accidents in critical ...

Host Kevin Greene and guest Paul Black, computer scientist at National Institute of Standards and Technology, discuss the potential impact of Underwriters Laboratories, or UL, certification and ...

It’s no secret that hardware is the new currency in the chip world. It’s no longer the case that the semiconductor industry is in the hands of traditional semiconductor giants; an increasing number of ...

With shrinking process geometries, static and dynamic power are increasing rapidly, forcing designers to use a variety of implementation techniques to control power. MIPS Technologies’ multicore ...

eople may seem willing to put up with PC applications that crash regularly. But the same cannot be said for embedded software applications such as planes, trains and automobiles, where significantly ...