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The job of the EJB developer is constantly challenging, making the task of designing maintainable and scalable systems difficult without a clear set of best practices to follow. It is with this and ...

Design patterns are proven techniques for implementing robust, malleable, reusable, and extensible object-oriented software. To launch his Java Design Patterns column, David Geary introduces design ...

Here on Hackaday, we’re generally designers of hacks that live in the real world. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that some of the most interesting feats are at the mercy of what’s possible in software, ...

The cost/performance ratio of FPGAs has dramatically improved over the past ten years while ASICs have grown to large system-on-chip designs. The electronic design automation industry has evolved ...

SystemVerilog supports templates for generic code writing using parameterized classes. Here we’re going to describe some of the design patterns in the code that make up the UVM base class library.