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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Meets Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) in More Ways Than One
Way back in the mists of time that we used to call 2023, I wrote (well, waffled) a column about Network-on-Chip (NoC) technology (see Who…
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Is the world ready for Platypus, Zero ASIC’s open eFPGA IP? CEO Andreas Olofsson is betting that the answer is “Yes”
Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP is not new. Several companies including Achronix, Efinix, Flex Logix, Menta, and QuickLogic have been offering FPGA cores for integration into…
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Microchip launches sub-$1, dual-core AVR microcontroller for functional safety applications
Several microcontroller vendors used the time around Embedded World 2025 to introduce some truly interesting devices. I’ve already written about the TI MSPM0 microcontroller family…
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AI-Based PCBA Machine Vision Solution Ensures Supply Chain Integrity
I wish you could visit me in Max’s World, where everything is bigger, brighter, and more colorful. The birds sing sweeter (and in harmony), the…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About LFSRs (But Were Too Afraid to Ask)
I don’t really recall when I first ran across the concept of the binary. I think I must have been around six years old. I…
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A 10-cent RISC-V microcontroller from China? Why not?
Just as I was finishing my previous article about a new TI microcontroller that was smaller than a grain of white rice and sold for…
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Quantum Simulations of New Materials for the 21st Century
We are surrounded by a multiplicity of materials, from metals and alloys to crystals, glasses, and ceramics; from polymers and plastics to organic and living-derived…
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TI says its MSPM0 is the world’s most teeny, tiny 32-bit microcontroller. It’s smaller than a grain of white rice and costs 16 cents.
Today, I want to discuss the incredible shrinking microcontroller. Early microcontroller vendors packaged their offerings in 40-pin DIPs. They were physically small for what you…
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad 48V World
It seems that many of our electronic systems (communications, computing, automotive, industrial, etc.) are transitioning from 12V to 48V. How are you going to power…
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Only the Most Epic Embedded Online Conference Ever!
The value of online (virtual) conferences is increasing in leaps and bounds as travel becomes more problematic and time is increasingly at a premium. Some…