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FPGAs Race for the Bottom
There is an awful lot of chest beating in the FPGA world. Xilinx and Intel (Altera) have always taken great biennial pride and few prisoners…
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Tales of Voice Recognition
Five or so years ago, motion was getting all the MEMS and sensor love. Everything was about inertial sensors and what you could do with…
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How Does Scatter/Gather Work?
There’s a memory access technology out there that makes some pretty bold promises. If you take only the top-level messaging away, it sounds like, well,…
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Robot Penguins Zap Cyber-Threat!
“It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.” – Joe Moore The headline was straight out of click-bait heaven. “Hungry penguins keep…
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“Swimming in Sensors, Drowning in Data”
As is often the case, the system design challenges faced by the defense industry were harbingers of issues to come for the rest of us.…
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Multi-Layer Security
As the discussion of internet security rages, you may have noticed that much of the conversation focuses on TLS (aka Transport Layer Security) vs. so-called…
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What Part of the Elephant Do You Recognise?
After forty years at the helm of National Instruments, founder Dr. James Truchard (Dr. T.) is stepping down. Given that NI was founded before most…
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Rock & Roll Engineering
“This goes to 11. It’s one better.” – Nigel Tufnel, “This Is Spinal Tap” They say there are 10 kinds of people: those who understand…
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Making COTS Real
COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) seems like a great idea on the surface. Rather than designing custom, one-off complex electronic systems from the ground up…
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3 Tales of Hardware Hacking
We’ve talked a lot about security lately (a trend that’s not likely to diminish anytime soon). But much of the hard work of encryption and…