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The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

COIMBATORE: Several small engineering units producing metal components have cut down night shift due to shortage of workforce to operate the Computer Numerical ...