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You’re throwing money away: the importance of managing software

Software is an essential part of any business today. However, software can also be complex and expensive to develop and maintain. That is why it is incredibly important for companies to manage their software as part of their bill of…

3 tips for product start-up engineers

Planning ahead can save lots of stress further down the road When an engineer starts designing a new product, there are lots of things to take into consideration before even starting the actual development. It could be months into the…

I need a BIOS for my embedded x86 design. Which choices do I have?

Which BIOS you can use for your embedded X86 device depends on a number of interdependent factors Is this a one-time off design, or are you planning multiple designs and/or derivatives? Are you expecting to switch to newer CPU SKU’s…

Why your mission-critical application needs a real-time database management system

You might be familiar with some conventional database management systems and the general meaning of it. In the most general sense, database management enables users to define, create, maintain and control access to the database. If we translate this into…

What is traceability and why is it important?

Traceability is a sub-discipline of requirements management within software development and systems engineering and it mainly serves the purpose of accelerating and improving development activities. As a result, it also prevents software defects by visualizing relationships between components. Let’s describe…