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Machine Vision, Robotics, Industrial Applications? There’s an SOM for That!
I’ve heard it said that “60 is the new 40,” which means that people in their 60s today are often as active, healthy, and youthful…
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EYEO’s Eye-Opening Image Sensor Technology
Today’s image sensors—the ones used in digital photography, surveillance, and machine vision—are amazing, awesome, and [insert your favorite superlative here]. Even more remarkable is the…
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Will We Soon Say, “CMOS Sensors Drool, SPAD Sensors Rule”?
We may think that today’s artificial intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI (GenAI) like ChatGPT, is terrific, but I’m informed that “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”…
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A CXL progress report: The elephant is learning to dance
It’s been a year since I last looked at the developing CXL (Compute Express Link) standard (see “The Adventures of CXL Across the 3rd Dimension”)…
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Scaling Up and Scaling Out: Reimagining Silicon Switching for the AI Era
This has been another “one of those days.” I’ve been discovering all sorts of things pertaining to what’s currently happening in the high-end of artificial…
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A book that covers Heathkit test equipment? Yes, please
Recently, I’ve written several articles about the Heath Company and its legendary Heathkits. I based these articles on discussions with and materials from Chas Gilmore,…
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Smart AI-Enabled Verification Will Increase First Silicon Success
Following my wife, family, and friends (just in case any of them happen to read this by mistake), my first love is digital logic design,…
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Event-based image sensor cuts processing power requirements by one or two orders of magnitude
I last wrote about Prophesee’s event-based vision sensor at the end of 2023. (See “Prophesee’s 5th Generation Sensors Detect Motion Instead of Images for Industrial,…
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Wow! AI-Powered “Sketch-on-Napkin” to Embedded Design
I was just thinking about the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, writer, and photographer, the…
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Efinix co-packages FPGA with SDRAM to shrink board-level real estate footprint
Efinix has just done designers a solid. The company’s new Ti180J484D1 FPGA incorporates a 2Gbit LPDDR4X SDRAM die co-packaged with the FPGA die, which creates…