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  • Another Fine Mesh

    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…

  • More AI Moves into EDA

    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…

  • Super-Reliable Inertial Sensors for Smart Cars

    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…

  • To the Cloud, Alice!

    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…

  • Driving Down Intelligent Vision

    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”…

  • A Nontechnical Solution to a Technical Problem

    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…

  • SRAM Challenges and MRAM Achievements

    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…

  • To the Cloud and Back?

    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…

  • Smart Sensor Sees in 3D

    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…

  • Security In and On the Application

    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…