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The Information Food Chain
“I’m not deaf. I’m just ignoring you.” – Heideroosjes Pardon me while I set down my caviar. Contrary to popular belief, being a technology journalist…
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Why Are Design Tools So Bad?
As much as the EDA industry would like us to believe otherwise, it’s almost impossible to find an engineering team who is satisfied with their…
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Further CNN IP Integration
Not long ago, we published a piece describing Cadence’s new Tensilica Vision C5 processor. We used the opportunity to give a brief primer on convolutional…
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A New Standard for FPGA Peripherals
FPGA boards are quite possibly the most versatile and useful tools in our engineering hardware toolboxes. A competent hardware engineer can grab an FPGA board…
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SiFive Aims to Change the World
“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville, “Moby Dick” Call me a skeptic. There are lots of microprocessor architectures in the world. Maybe too many. There…
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From Movies to Data Analysis
If you’ve been paying attention to the various papers at various advanced semiconductor process conferences, there’s a name you’re seeing more and more: Coventor. We’ve…
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System Delta Sigma Delta
System Design is inherently a task of integration. The job of the system engineer is to gather and integrate a collection of components which, taken…
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Get Happy with MTAPI!
“I believe robots should only have faces if they truly need them.” – Donald A. Norman, PhD. Two heads are better than one. But…
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EDA Tackles Functional Safety
For years, when we have thought “functional safety” or “safety-critical design,” we’ve pictured airplanes, spaceships, and weapons. All of these systems rely on tons of…
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Getting En-Meshed in Bluetooth
“You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset, because some guys look crazy with them.” – Neil Strauss If you shout “Bluetooth!” in a…