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  • Intel Jettisons Wind River

    Intel Jettisons Wind River

    “It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate, and two sides to make it go bad.” – Gary Bettman Sometimes I…

  • Analog Functions Made from Digital Circuits

    Analog Functions Made from Digital Circuits

    “The hot side stays hot and the cool side stays cool” – McDonald’s pitch for the short-lived McDLT Ah, the quaint old days, back when you…

  • Maybe You Can’t Drive My Car. (Yet)

    Maybe You Can’t Drive My Car. (Yet)

    “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.”…

  • Qorvo and the Rare Air of RF

    Qorvo and the Rare Air of RF

    One clear effect of the IoT revolution has been the integration of technology ecosystems that had been independent for decades. Because the IoT is an…

  • Dude, My Embedded Processor Is Epyc

    Dude, My Embedded Processor Is Epyc

    “I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives.” — Isabel Allende Following a tradition more often honored…

  • Full-Power WiFi at Half the Power

    Full-Power WiFi at Half the Power

    In IoTland, communication is king. It puts the Internet in the IoT. But how to communicate? LTE? BlueTooth? WiFi? It partly depends on the application…

  • Fifty (or Sixty) Years of Processor Development…for This?

    Fifty (or Sixty) Years of Processor Development…for This?

    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of…

  • A Better Way to Define Industry Standards

    A Better Way to Define Industry Standards

    “You can’t have high standards without good discipline.” – William Hague It’s lovely when two partners find each other. They meet at work or at…

  • Deep Learning with MATLAB

    Deep Learning with MATLAB

    We are in the midst of a revolution in computing that will uproot our entire digital ecosystem at its core. If IoT has been the…

  • Small, Fab-Friendly ReRAM Selector

    Small, Fab-Friendly ReRAM Selector

    We’re still in the hunt for new memories – particularly non-volatile ones that can compete, at least to some level, either with DRAM and SRAM…