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What Is Silicone, Anyway?
“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy.” — Temple Grandin We’ve all been there. You go to visit your great-uncle…
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The People’s Processor
The capitalist computing bourgeoisie want to enslave us all with proprietary processing architectures, but the proletariat eventually produces its own processor alternative – an ISA…
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Photonics EDA
Today we wander back into the field of silicon photonics. A few years ago, I did a quick summary of how light can be manipulated…
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Everything Is Harder Than It Looks
“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra I was a professional photographer’s model, briefly. Very briefly. And unintentionally. And…
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Raising the eFPGA Bar
The recent explosion of FPGA-based compute acceleration has created an enormous new market opportunity for programmable logic. With demanding new applications such as neural networks…
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Software Parallelization Evolves
At the beginning of this year, we looked at a new company that was attacking the whole issue of creating efficient multicore code that works…
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The Blue-Ribbon Cloud Crowd
“I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.” – Noel Coward Goat yoga is a real thing. Parking meters are…
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Hug a Data Scientist
It’s been a long and mutually-productive relationship, but it’s time to break up. For the five-decades-plus run of Moore’s Law, we electronics engineers have been…
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The Many Flavors of SOI
At this year’s Semicon West show, Soitec made a presentation summarizing the state of the union with respect to silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. We’ve looked at…
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Missing the Mark on Makers
For the past few years, we at EE Journal have watched with excitement as the maker movement has continued to grow and assert itself in…