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Which Wireless Mesh Performs Best?
Those of you with kids, or those of you who were kids in the ‘60s with access to Disney movies, may recall the classic 101…
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Arduino Swallows the Blue Pill
What’s this FPGA doing in my new Arduino Vidor? I think it’s the backstroke, sir. – Classic British Humor (paraphrased) Among several new development boards…
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Arm Unwraps Three New CPU/GPU Designs
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” – Malcolm Forbes Japanese-owned Arm is celebrating the start of summer with three new ’76-themed IP cores: Cortex-A76,…
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Emulator Infill
Sometimes it’s about new technology, and sometimes it’s about something as mundane as pricing or form factor. Last year it was the former; this year…
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Rescuing Doctor Who’s K-9
Optimism: Belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on insane. – K-9, “The Armageddon Factor, Episode One,” Doctor Who, 1977 When Abertay University…
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Engineering as Art Form
“Is there in truth no beauty?” – Star Trek episode 60 Vacuum tubes? Seriously? This is 2018. My newsfeed lately has been filled with advertisements…
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Intel Delivers Xeon Scalable Processor 6138P with Arria 10 GX 1150 FPGA
Almost exactly four years ago, at Gigaom Structure 2014, Intel’s Diane Bryant announced that the company would be “integrating [Intel’s] industry-leading Xeon processor with a…
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Deep Learning Gets a Foundation
It’s a well-worn path that’s followed when new technology comes around. It often starts in universities or large companies with big research budgets and an…
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Richard Feynman and Quantum Computing
Richard Feynman, probably the most colourful physicist of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most important, was born a hundred years ago,…
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More AI at the Edge
AI in edge devices is expected to experience mind-blowing growth over the next half decade, with predictions exceeding 100% CAGR. That means our IoT devices…