Today, more than 500 single-board computers (SBCs) and thousands of I/O cards are on the market, but there are few ready-made input/output (I/O) drivers. Developers continually request support for SBC ...

On the Pocketnow Power User so far this season we’ve talked mainly about hardware. What is the hardware abstraction layer, and why should you care? The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) bridges the gap ...

All things considered, it’s pretty easy to get one LED is a strip to light up sequentially, and have it bounce back and forth. Turning that simple animation into a real Larson scanner, with smooth ...

The transformational impact of artificial intelligence on enterprise technology is unquestionable, but players and spectators alike are waiting to see who will harness its potential. “AI is a massive ...

Abstraction is necessary for productivity. Simplicity eases adoption. Technology moves fast because it continually makes the hard things simple so people can move on to new challenges. Technology is ...

An abstraction layer (or abstraction level, or a layer of abstraction) is a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality. Software models that use layers of ...