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LoRaWAN Gets an Upgrade
Has it really been two and a half years? That’s how long it’s been since we did a round-up of the many contenders for low-power,…
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Spectre and Meltdown Continuing Coverage
Spectre and Meltdown are possibly the most important (and interesting) security vulnerabilities discovered in the past two decades. Because they capitalize on weaknesses in commonly-used…
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Profiteering from Spectre and Meltdown
OK, I’ve got to say something. Within the past week, I’ve seen numerous examples of companies trying to profiteer from the panic surrounding Spectre and…
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Be a Great Engineer
There is no question we are in the era of massively collaborative engineering. The world-changing electronic system technologies being developed today – IoT, autonomous cars,…
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The Bisquick Alternative
“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” – Elon…
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Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Schooling
Let’s start by getting one thing straight: Minima Processor is not a processor company. It’s a processor-related IP company, and, most specifically (at least for…
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Spectre and Meltdown and iPhone Batteries and Henny Penny
Last week, we learned of two significant security vulnerabilities in the most common processor architectures, which are now used in just about every digital system…
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Emerging MEMS and Sensors
The MEMS and Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) held their annual executive congress a couple of months ago. That would mean it’s time for Alissa Fitzgerald,…
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Hardware Bugs Afflict Nearly All CPUs
“Is this going to be a standup fight, sir, or another bug hunt?” – PFC Hudson, Aliens Here’s the tl;dr: A pair of separate but…
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Crossing the Reconfigurable Computing Chasm
In 1960, Gerald Estrin presented “Organization of computer systems: the fixed plus variable structure computer” at the western joint IRE-AIEE-ACM computer conference. His abstract reads…