Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

Every foundry and every node is different, but for every foundry/node there are multiple supported metal stacks. Some chips use a lot more metal layers than others. A common rule of thumb is each ...

What does the new "manufacturing stack" look like? We’re all familiar with the Internet’s TCP/IP stack. The bottom layer handles the details of the physical transmission of raw bits and bytes, and ...

Ethernet is a popular communications media chosen for its combination of high throughput, the wellknown TCP/IP sockets application programming interface (API), low-cost hardware, widely available ...

Most developers follow a conventional sequence of steps in the design of an embedded system, starting with the selection of an RTOS upon which to build a software application. Other components, such ...

The purpose of the network layer is to help route messages between different local networks. Central to this layer is the concept of exclusive network addresses, where every terminal connected to the ...