Imagine you work for a smaller manufacturer that decides to digitize its product-development process to make it more efficient. To keep costs down, the company wants to use a standard, open language ...

We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup ...

The design and implementation trade-offs within a native XML database make a significant impact on the performance, scalability and features available to applications that use it. This article focuses ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

What if there were a way to incorporate accountability directly into the same work that produces the actual design? As indispensable as computers are in electronics analysis, they generally have ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...

This article originally appeared in our sister publication, Builder Australia, as part of the Ask Chuck column. I want to create a Windows Application that allows a user to enter/edit/access data that ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be used to store structured data that can be handy for embedded and Web applications. Most developers will be familiar with XML (Extensible ...

As the semiconductor industry increases take-up of IP-XACT standards to describe Intellectual Property (IP) this paper shares the experiences of NXP Semiconductors and Mentor Graphics, who have been ...