3 Reasons to Focus on Hardware Dependent Software

Date: 2014/10/25

Type: In the News

by Don Dingee

Why is software for modern SoCs so blasted expensive to develop? One reason is more software is being developed at the kernel layer – hardware dependent software, or HdS. Application software often assumes the underlying hardware, operating system, communication stacks, and device drivers are stable. For HdS, this flawed assumption of stability can eat a project alive.

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