The phrase "a software device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific type of software that functions similarly to a device or tool, often in the context of technology or computing.
Example: "The new application acts as a software device that enhances the functionality of our existing systems."
Alternatives: "a software application" or "a software tool".
The figures include less than two weeks of sales after Volkswagen admitted its diesel cars were fitted with a software device to manipulate emissions in official US tests.
VW admitted in September that its cars were fitted with a software device manipulating the amount of emissions in official tests.
The White House conceded today that it might have violated federal privacy guidelines, and it ordered its Office of National Drug Control Policy to stop using a software device that tracks computer users who view the government's antidrug advertisements on the Internet.
Is the Apple Watch a software device or a consumer product?
Each feature becomes an aspect of a software device – an archetype model.
In this article, we introduce ARES (Antibiotic Resistance Evolution Simulator) a software device that simulates P-system model scenarios with five types of nested computing membranes oriented to emulate a hierarchy of eco-biological compartments, i.e. a) peripheral ecosystem; b) local environment; c) reservoir of supplies; d) animal host; and e) host's associated bacterial organisms (microbiome).
What to do? Xavier Ferguson, chairman and chief executive of q Media Group Network, a New York-based technology company, announced this week that he believed that he had a solution: a new software device called "q" that runs on the desktop while users view the Internet.
A few months later, Alice learns that Eva is using an embedded software device for the precise same application as the device Alice delivered to Bob.
Patients were connected to the Task Force Monitor (TFM) (Model 3040i, CNSystems Medizintechnik, Graz, Austria), a combined hardware and software device for noninvasive recording of cardiovascular variables.
Called Webbe, the software device appears on a computer screen much like a virtual remote control.
Then a dongle was "a software protection device which must be plugged into a computer to enable the protected software to be used on it".
