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Another Fine Mesh
“There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.” – Louis Theroux Hey, kids, let’s all make something! If your STEM…
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More AI Moves into EDA
Anyone who’s anyone has at least one AI angle working for them. Unwilling to settle for just one angle, Mentor Graphics discussed two angles at…
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Super-Reliable Inertial Sensors for Smart Cars
“A man with a watch always knows the time. A man with two is never certain” – anonymous They say you should never go camping…
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To the Cloud, Alice!
It’s like Manifest Destiny all over again (hopefully without the dark side). There’s an inexorable move to the cloud for computing – and yet all…
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Driving Down Intelligent Vision
For FPGAs, machine vision represents perhaps the ultimate killer app. First, the video landscape is varied enough that there is no “one size fits all”…
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A Nontechnical Solution to a Technical Problem
“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.” – David Lee Roth It’s summertime, and time for a little…
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SRAM Challenges and MRAM Achievements
Today we bring two stories about memory. One is business-model oriented; the other is about technology. We’ll take those two in order. Competing with Free…
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To the Cloud and Back?
In the 1980s, a dramatic transformation came over the world of computing. Mainframes and minicomputers had long held the lion’s share of the world’s computing…
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Smart Sensor Sees in 3D
“[Motion sensing hand dryers] never work, so I just end up looking like I’m waving hello to a wall robot.” – Jimmy Fallon In school…
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Security In and On the Application
Internet-of-things (IoT) security seems to be passing through various phases as a topic. It started as, “Wait, what? I need security? But why???” Frankly, we…