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MCUs For the Indecisive
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” — T. S. Eliot The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose…
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Silicon Purification for Quantum Computing
Just in case your brain has been working too smoothly lately, it’s time to descend back down into the bizarre world of quantum computing. And,…
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AI at the IoT Endpoint
Computation is entering an era of unprecedented heterogeneous distribution. The diverse demands of IoT applications require everything from heavy-iron, deep-learning data-crunching to ultra-low-latency snap recognition…
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In Defense of Ignorance
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw Spoiler alert: We’re ignorant and we like it. Not stupid, necessarily…
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Seeing and Being Seen
Vision in living beings is a pretty incredible thing. The eyeball hardware and the brain software seem effortlessly to do what we struggle to do…
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Who’s on First?
“Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third.”—Abbot and Costello Recent news regarding progress made by semiconductor process technology’s major players…
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Battling with the Heavy Hitters
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers…” — Henry V, Act IV, Scene iii What’s it like to be the underdog? To be…
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Molto Legato Senza Failure
In music, Legato means smooth and connected, without distinct breaks. Or, in electronics parlance – analog. Analog circuits are arguably the most difficult to design…
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Five Major Adds by Coventor
Coventor released its most recent version of their SEMulator3D tool not long ago. Just as a refresher, this is the tool that lets process engineers…
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Mid-Range Mayhem
We give far too much air time to high end FPGAs. It’s too easy, really. Our eyes glaze over at all the talk of FinFETs,…