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Global Navigation in One Tiny, Surface-Mountable Module
The amount of hardware in orbit for GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) navigation is big and getting bigger. The US GPS and Russian GLONASS satellite…
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Finance 103: Reading the Stock Charts
“One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.” –…
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Second Wind: The New Wind River
“Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.” – Roger Daltry There’s a humongous redwood tree (sequoiadendron giganteum) in Yosemite National Park called the…
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Matters of Integrity
They say that practice makes permanent – whether it’s right or wrong. And, for those of us who have been designing printed circuit boards (PCBs)…
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Photonics: Where Heat is a Good Thing
We all know that person. Everyone in the office is wondering why the heat is turned up. They’re not sweating outright, but they have that…
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Q&A with Xilinx President and CEO Victor Peng
“Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition” – Michael Porter, Harvard Business School Earlier this month, Xilinx announced the 7nm Versal ACAP series…
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Get Woke: Sensory Improves Voice Activation
“I know the voices aren’t real, but they have some good ideas.” – anonymous We laugh when Siri, Alexa, or Cortana misunderstands us and makes…
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Finance 102: The IPO Roadshow
“The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it’s the start of purgatory.” — Vivek Wadhwa In last week’s installment we talked about various forms…
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Easier Gadget Wireless
So you’re going to add wireless capabilities to your WidgetMaster-Plus, eh? You did all that work getting the widgety parts working, so now all you…
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Why does Xilinx say That its New 7nm Versal “ACAP” isn’t an FPGA?
Xilinx has been performing a slow reveal of its new ACAP (adaptive compute acceleration platform) architecture for many months, and the company unveiled much more—including…