Digitization Software Obsolescence, Too?

Text is Software Too

Software compiles and therefore is characterized by a parseable grammar. Natural language text rarely conforms to prescriptive grammars and therefore is much harder to parse. Mining parseable structures is easier than mining less structured entities. Therefore, most work on mining repositories focuses on software, not natural language text. Here, we report experiments with mining natural langua...

Software are Processes Too

A process defines the way activities are organized, managed, measured, supported and improved to reach a goal. It has been shown, 15 years ago [1] that processes are software too; more precisely that their description can also be software. We hypothesize that a system can be characterized by its goal and by answering the questions: why, what and how. We show that software process work investiga...

Measurement processes are software, too

Software process improvement and measurement are closely linked: measures are the only way to prove improvements in a process. Despite this link, and the interest in process improvement, measurement is not widely applied in industrial software production. This paper describes a method designed to guide the definition, implementation and operation of measurement processes. The method, which buil...

Optimal obsolescence

Product Obsolete / Under Obsolescence

This application note describes a high-speed, reconfigurable, full-precision Transposed Form FIR filter design implemented in the VirtexTM and Virtex-II series and SpartanTM-II family of FPGAs. The VHDL reference design provided with this application note is easily modified to change filter parameters including coefficients and the number of taps. By illustrating a design methodology for digita...