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Achronix Leaps Forward
With the announcement that the company became profitable in Q1 2017, that year-to-year growth will exceed 700%, and that 2017 revenues will pass the $100…
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The Steady March of Progress
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw To no one’s great surprise, ARM has released a new set of…
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Battery Roundup
Batteries have historically been perceived as something of a staid technology – at least in a lot of minds. I remember back when we were…
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Digital Innovation in Health Care
It is sobering to be in a presentation discussing a range of problems and to suddenly to realise that one of the problems that the…
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Intel Pulls the Plug on Itanium
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain Friends, engineers, countrymen, lend me your…
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Flex Logix Fires Second Salvo
For decades now, FPGA companies have struggled to overcome their de-facto positioning as “ASIC alternatives.” Of course, FPGAs are great for prototyping your design, or…
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Machine Learning Hits EDA
OK, you’ve just been assigned a new project. There’s a cell that’s in need of Monte Carlo variation analysis. You’re looking for 6σ accuracy –…
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Add Glamour to Your Product
“Most people think glamour is happiness.” – Peter Falk They say sex sells, maybe even in the MCU business. Once found only in dull products…
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Sunshine Changing the World
As an electronics editor, I am constantly being briefed on new technologies. Often, the presenter struggles to establish a framework for the innovation being described,…
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Discrimination by Photon
Having braved several weeks hiking through the jungle, facing all the usual hazards, they find the entrance to the cavern. Only here it isn’t a…