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Neural Network Notions and Tools
At this summer’s DAC conference, Mentor had a couple of artificial intelligence (AI)-related announcements. One of them concerned their own use of AI for physical…
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High-End FPGA Showdown – Part 1
Intel announced this week that they have begun shipping the first of their new Agilex FPGAs to early-access customers. This moves us into what we…
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Why Engineers Don’t Set Prices
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” — Hanlon’s razor You may remember them. A young newlywed couple cancelled their…
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Analog Advancements
Two ongoing questions have plagued analog design for many years: How can we design analog circuits more quickly and more portably? How can we keep…
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IBM Gives Away PowerPC; Goes Open Source
“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Uncle Ben Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly. IBM has…
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Goldilocks Process Windows
One of the tricky bits when launching a new process is figuring out what the process window is. For anyone new to the concept, the…
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Bluetooth Hack for Bad Guys
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Bluetooth. And, to be perfectly honest, it leans a bit more toward the “hate” end of the spectrum.…
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Thank You for Your Service
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” – Robert Burns We dread calling customer service because…
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How Do We Tackle Chip Security?
Security was huge at this summer’s DAC. By that, I don’t mean that you had to get frisked to get in; I mean that it…
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Acceleration Battlefield
The market for accelerating specialized data center workloads is expected to grow dramatically over the next few years. The acceleration market was estimated to be…