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Quantum of Solace
“It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll.” – AC/DC You’ll never lose your job for buying IBM. That was…
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Picking Up Bad Vibrations
It feels great to finish a printed circuit board (PCB) project, doesn’t it? By the time a project goes out the door, the design feels…
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A Radio with Minimal Analog(ue)
Economics is never far from a semiconductor discussion. Even Moore’s Law, often articulated in physical terms (die size, feature size, etc.) is really an economic…
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Expanding the Scope of Verification
Looking at the agenda for the 2017 edition of the annual DVCon – arguably the industry’s premiere verification conference, one sees precisely what one would…
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Our Bots, Ourselves
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln Doctor Frankenstein, I presume. It seemed like such a simple thing.…
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Shining Light through the Backside
Looking to build some circuits that use light instead of electrons to make them super speedy? Well, you’re in good company, but you’d better buckle…
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Security: Hard and Soft
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate writing about security. I hate it because I…
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Radio FPGA!
CQ CQ CQ – Calling CQ. This is 5G calling… We’ve all heard it. 5G is coming. Maybe not soon, but as soon as we…
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Network Timing in Your Car
It’s a quaint tradition, born out of decades of action thrillers summoning teams of protagonists to execute some very precise (and unlikely) plan. As the…
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The Abacus Conundrum
“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.” – Jean Baudrillard One of the questions we often get asked here at EE Journal Galactic…