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Data Center Duel Deux
It’s clear that programmable logic and FPGA technology will capture an increasing share of the value in conventional and cloud data-center deployments. While FPGAs have…
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EUV as Pizza
What’s the most important thing for the perfect pizza? This isn’t a fair question, of course, because there’s no definition of “perfect” when it comes…
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Ongoing Sensor Work
Wow. It’s been six years. Where has the time gone? Six years ago, I attended a session on sensors at the ISSCC conference. I decided…
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The 90 Percent Trap
The VP was obviously impressed. In fact, “blown away” wouldn’t have been overstating it. The demo had gone perfectly, and even when he’d asked questions…
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Cypress Tames Two-Headed Monster
“While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads… I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.” — Steven Sinofsky What would…
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An Old Cantilever Is New Again
It’s been a while since we’ve talked about a new company in the MEMS space. All that quantum fluctuation a few years back – companies…
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World Doesn’t End, Part II
“Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.” – Hermann Göring Here we go again. This is the year of “fake news.”…
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Teaching Machines to See
The IoT world is all about sensing, and no sense is more important or empowering than vision. We humans rely on our sight to understand…
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A New IC Design Model
This is a story with a flipside. Probably a couple of flipsides, actually. And it has me rather conflicted. It’s a simple story about a…
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Safety-Critical Systems
Security, particularly for the IoT, has been hogging the headlines recently, but safety and safety-critical applications are still a major topic of interest. February saw…