Back in 2001, I wrote a column about the merits of using heterogeneous designs for signal processing-oriented applications. My argument went like this: Signal-processing applications typically ...

Heterogeneous materials appear pervasively in Nature (e.g., polycrystals, wood, bone, blood, …), physical systems (e.g., (un)stable colloidal suspensions, …), or ...

Part one in a series. Processing architectures continue to become more complex, but is the software industry getting left behind? Who will help them utilize the hardware being created? Eleven years ...