It's Time to Stop Calling Circuits "Hardware.".
The article discusses the roles that circuits play in the technical world and advocates that they should no longer be referred to as hardware but that they be considered software. Advanced circuits that are custom-made by system designers are usually called coprocessors or accelerators but even thes...
| Published in: | Computer (00189162) Vol. 40; no. 9; pp. 106 - 109 |
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IEEE
Sep2007
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