Ultimately, the hardware and software complexities of putting together a functioning modular smartwatch may end up as nothing to the challenge of finding a market for such a highly customizable and therefore necessarily fiddly product — at least outside niche gadget enthusiast circles.
The growth of hardware capability and software complexity can be expected to continue, with future directions including stackable commodity subsystems, computer-generated algorithms, runtime reconfigurable processors, and greater autonomy.
IBM says it stands out from the pack in scaleup that is, computers that can accommodate massive hardware and software add-ons and complexity.
The integration of heterogeneous types of cameras without a unified hardware and software interface increases the complexity of the acquisition system.
On the basis of the T-LOTOS language, a language called TTL has been developed, which adds new constructs and tools to the high expressiveness of the original language, thus making it suitable for the specification of hardware and software systems of real complexity.
As a result, modeling, design, and testing should jointly consider analog, digital, baseband, RF, hardware, and software, resulting in high system complexity even at the level of a single radio.
Also, the use of natural-language processing required additional hardware and software resources that increased the complexity.
But the tradeoff has been that customers had to put the hardware and software together themselves, even as computing complexity and data-handling demands surged.
Due to this new complexity in hardware and software design, performance optimization of large-scale parallel programs becomes more and more challenging.
Dr. Bellovin said that it was Dr. Neumann who originally gave him the insight that "complex systems break in complex ways" — that the increasing complexity of modern hardware and software has made it virtually impossible to identify the flaws and vulnerabilities in computer systems and ensure that they are secure and trustworthy.
