The broadband industry is under constant pressure. Intense competition and the need for more capacity push broadband service providers to deploy fiber and new Carrier Ethernet technologies further out ...

A fixed design application specific standard product (ASSP) rarely meets the customer's specifications exactly and does not allow use across multiple platforms that may have slightly differing ...

The ultimate promise of low power programmability lies in its capacity to support scalable IoT architectures without causing ...

Upcoming SDxCentral DemoFriday™: Cisco Demos onePK Case Study with Developer Partner, Glue Networks. On November 15, join the demo with Cisco Systems Inc. and Glue Networks as they demo the onePK case ...

Nothing comes for free, and that is certainly true for the programmable elements in an SoC. But without them we are left with very specific devices that can only be used for one fixed application and ...

Managing and configuring the network has always required direct human interaction through manual processes. Command Line Interfaces (CLI) were designed with this in mind, and they did a good job of ...

The rate of change in the automotive industry is accelerating with the shift toward software-defined vehicles and ongoing advancements in algorithms and chip architectures. The challenge now is to ...

The history of the semiconductor industry has shown consistently a cyclical swing between programmability and fixed function – also known as Makimoto’s wave, see Figure 1. If this pattern is to ...

The deluge of new wireless consumer and industry applications continues to fuel the unmitigated growth of the wireless market. As consumers become increasingly addicted to these rapid-fire apps, they ...