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How to Write a Manual
“Save the Manuals!” – Car and Driver I’ve got one word for you: #NaNoWriMo. That’s the hashtag for National Novel-Writing Month, a lighthearted and voluntary…
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Fingerprints and Better Infrared
We’ve reviewed a lot of sensors this year, both earlier and more recently, but there are a couple of other ones that need a few…
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Red Asphalt, Blue Screen of Death
“You’re safer in the race car than you are driving to and from the track.” – Mario Andretti I’ll make you a bet. Let’s flip…
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The Biggest SoC/FPGAs
In the decades-long battle between Altera (now part of Intel) and Xilinx, no title has been more hotly contested than “Ours is Biggest.” Way back…
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GlobalFoundries Puts Their Cards on the Table
Just over a month ago, GlobalFoundries (GF among friends) had their technology conference, and it would appear that they stored up all kinds of news…
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NXP’s New i.MX RT1050 Gets Edgy
“Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.” – Immaculate Heart Art College, rule #6 In business, there’s…
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EE Journal’s Live Coverage of the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress
Our EE Journal Team went to the 2017 MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress in San Jose. We listened as MEMS and sensor industry experts broke down…
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Nightmare at Seven Nanometers
The wild wind whistles strange through the bright gloom of eternal daylight in the tightly-sealed semiconductor fab. In the power-assured place where progress never pauses,…
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Yet One More Neural Net Accelerator
Another day, another neural network solution. Seems to be the flavor of the year, not surprisingly, given that machine learning is on the ascendant. Earlier…
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It is Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future*
In the last few weeks, I have been exposed to a firehose of information about the future of electronics, firstly at the Arm Research Summit…