There has been a debate quietly smoldering regarding the role of C language in ASIC and FPGA-based design. Most recently, John Cooley's ESNUG DAC trip report and Richard Goering's “C loves me, C loves ...

Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...