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The Day The Machines Took Over (The Wheel)
We’ve all been waiting for the day when the machines take over the world. In fact, if you read this publication, you’re almost certainly spending…
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Portable Stimulus Intent
The first thing you should know about the new Portable Stimulus standard from Accellera is that, strictly speaking, it doesn’t provide for portable stimulus. Somehow,…
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50 Years of French Research
Fifty years ago, the semiconductor industry barely existed. Jack Kilby had implemented the first integrated circuit only nine years earlier, and Intel’s two co-founders, Robert…
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The Goldilocks of Flash Memory
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” — William Gibson The first impression wasn’t good. The opening PowerPoint slide showed the usual company logo,…
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QuickLogic Heats Up eFPGA
We’ve written several times now about the numerous advantages of putting FPGA fabric into your ASIC or SoC, rather than parking an FPGA next to…
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What Is a Smart City?
What do you think of when you hear the term “Smart Cities”? Parking apps? Lighting with sensors? Both of those are certainly part of the…
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Making a Connection
“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.” – Walter Chrysler Last week I interviewed a real, live, professional race car engineer for the famous Andretti…
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Aggressive with Passives
Most of us think about capacitors the way a chef thinks about salt – knowing that it’s never the star of the show, having a…
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A New PUF Mechanism
We all know that security is bubbling its way up in importance, and we all probably know that key management is an important part of…
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Watching the Weightless
We engineers like things we can count and measure. Our professional comfort zone is in the metrics, multipliers, and deltas – hard data on which…