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Microchip Makes Two Small Firsts
“Roses are red / Violets are blue / I’m schizophrenic / And so am I” – Oscar Levant Two heads are better than one, and…
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The EDA Enigma
The fifty-fifth Design Automation Conference (DAC) is underway in San Francisco this week. Just let that number settle in for a minute or two. That’s…
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MEMS Design Contest Winners
Two years ago at the annual DATE conference in Europe, a MEMS design contest was announced. Sponsored by Reutlingen University, Coventor, X-Fab, and Cadence, the…
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Programmable Pile of Parts
FPGAs were conceived as “do anything” chips – Jacks of all Trades. Sure, they were crazy expensive for the number of effective gates they offered,…
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Zap! Zap! Zap! GlobalFoundries’ UHV 180nm Process Hits 700V
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. – Mark Twain With all the media hype and heavy emphasis…
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Amazon and Google in the RTOS World
“One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Monkey see, monkey do. Google…
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An MRAM Cell that Competes with SRAM?
Anything you do can be done efficiently or not. Whether it’s driving (mpg?), playing sportsball (results/energy spent?), or walking the dog (who pulls whom?), you…
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Maybe You Can’t Drive My Car (Yet) Part 2
“I’m completely operational and all my circuits are functioning normally.” — Hal 9000, “2001, A Space Odyssey” We now have more information about the fatal…
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PowerVR AX2185 Accelerates Neural Nets
“The greatest danger of AI is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Sometimes accidental discoveries are the best ones.…
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Computing at a Crossroads
Computing is at a crossroads. For decades, we have surfed the exponential wave of Moore’s Law, tuning and tweaking the various von Neumann architectures, resizing…