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Software is never-ending, or so the axiom goes. It shouldn’t take long to convince anyone that has used an electronic device of the truth of this statement. The PC environment is the most obvious (and obnoxious) example with daily application software updates, at the most inconvenient times, coupled with regularly scheduled updates for the OS. Even embedded devices like media players and cell phones need periodic updates.

As a former product manager responsible for delivering WLAN chipsets, one of the biggest challenges we had was delivering software drivers. Even when the hardware was finished, we would have to do frequent driver releases. Bugs were not the only reasons for new releases. Driver releases were also needed to accommodate all the permutations of operating systems, chips sets and customer applications. If someone had said me at that time that a change in the hardware could reduce the driver effort by even a small percentage, I would have paid very close attention.

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