Information technology architecture is where abstractions become real. Modern enterprises are increasingly moving toward ...

Readers have returned quite a bit of feedback concerning, “Abstract Classes Vs. Interfaces” from April 2001. A recurring request asks to see a complete example of using interfaces and abstract classes ...

Developers of network-based devices for distributed net-centric computing face many challenges in making their products interoperable across a network, whether private or public. Networking technology ...

IP reuse has reduced the urgency for a higher level of abstraction in complex system-level design, but that still could change. Chip designers have been constantly searching for a hardware description ...

Design of anything, from an ERP application to an embedded software system to a hardware device to a mechanical object, is done at some level of abstraction. Simply, a level of abstraction is the ...

Without abstraction, advances in semiconductor design would have stalled decades ago and circuits would remain about the same size as analog blocks. No new abstractions have emerged since the 1990s ...

First off, let’s get an understanding of interfaces and why they are needed in programming. An interface is strictly a contract; it doesn’t have any implementation. An interface contains only member ...