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Edge FPGAs for Security and AI
A few years ago, Lattice Semiconductor was an also-ran in the mainstream FPGA business – lapping up table scraps left by larger competitors Xilinx and…
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Pushbutton Security Comes to IoT
“There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.” – Salman Rushdie Spend any time talking with IoT developers and one…
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The Problem with Microphones
We’ve talked about audio company DSP Concepts before. We’ve looked at their Audio Weaver tool, and we’ve looked at how their offering has evolved from…
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Polte Locates Anything, Anywhere
“My GPS has a British accent – it’s way less annoying than the American one.” – Rachel Bilson GPS is pretty spectacular technology. I mean,…
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Achronix 7nm Speedster7t FPGAs
We’ve always been pretty impressed by Achronix – and for good reason. In an FPGA market where countless startups have tried and failed, Achronix somehow…
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Firming Up Your Photoresist
When you spend a goodly chunk of your career dealing with EDA-like issues, as did I, then you have a pretty easy gut reaction to…
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Resurrecting 1980s Computers
“You have to fight against being an antique.” – Burt Lancaster Constant improvement brings constant obsolescence. When we keep updating our operating systems, processors, DRAM,…
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Software-Defined Manufacturing
You might say that it all started with radio. For most of us, “radio” means what you listen to in your car (where today it’s…
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eASIC’s Big Win
Here at EE Journal world headquarters, we get a lot of press releases informing us that company A has made a deal with important customer…
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InnoPhase Crafts Digital Radio Chip
“Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” – George Harrison A radio, by definition, pumps energy into the air. It wastes power, in other words. How could…