For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and ...

The real error of the expert system era was not determinism itself-it was incomplete rules. Today's risk is the opposite: We have agents that are too flexible, running on too little accountability, ...

As more industrial networking technology suppliers and organizations get onboard with Time-Sensitive Networking, some serious questions about the technology and related products are arising. As an ...

Abounded response to events is the key to defining a hard real-time system. Real-time systems require determinism to ensure predictable behavior. Without determinism, systems can't be called real-time ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous. As long as it is the protocol of choice in IT, and the cost of even industrially hardened Ethernet switches and I/O are low, Ethernet will remain the communication protocol of ...