Mostly we’re lazy. We go to a software publisher’s web site and download files and just assume that what’s in the file is what the publisher claims it to be. The problem is that these days web sites ...

Every communication protocol should have a mechanism to determine whether the received data is valid. I once encountered a team that didn’t have such a mechanism. Their device operated in a ...

As the exchange of layout descriptions between teams involved in modern integrated circuit (IC) development and production increase in terms of rate, value and size, the need for control and ...