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“H” is for Heathkits and Hams: Part 1 – Early Days through the 1950s
Late last year, I published a 6-part article series that recounted the history of the Heath Company and its world-famous Heathkits. The series was based…
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Rust Rules! (Programming Language-Wise)
Have you heard tell of the Rust programming language and how it is growing to be a serious contender in embedded space (where no one…
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In Memoriam: James Boddie, DSP Pioneer
Starting with the development of the world’s first single-chip DSP, the Bell Labs DSP1, Jim Boddie devoted his long career to expanding the world of…
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The First Annual FPGA Awards – the Fibbies – celebrating 40 years of FPGAs
Welcome to the first ever (perhaps only) annual FPGA awards – the Fibbies. This year, 2025, marks the 40th year of the FPGA’s appearance in…
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Autonomous Trucks are Trucking Our Way!
On the one hand, the overly enthusiastic predictions for fully autonomous automobiles have, thus far, fallen somewhat behind schedule (sad face). On the other hand,…
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Lattice Semiconductor’s Nexus 2 platform brings significant performance benefits to low-end FPGAs
While Altera and AMD continue to hammer away at the higher end of the FPGA spectrum – for example, see “AMD ups the ante in…
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The Rise of the Robots (Cobots)
Until relatively recently, robots have been kept in cages. This isn’t to stop them from getting out (although I have a niggling notion that day…
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Measuring Picovolts and Femtoamps
I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t know as much about the topic of test and measurement (T&M) as perhaps I should. My only excuse…
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ST’s newest serial EEPROMs support both byte and page access
In 1973, the Miller Brewing Company launched the “lite” beer revolution with an ad campaign that proclaimed “Tastes great. Less filling.” The company’s ads backed…
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AMD ups the ante in the RF-enabled FPGA poker game with the Versal RF family
AMD has made another play in the poker game for RF-capable FPGAs against Altera. AMD’s opening ante, actually Xilinx’s opening ante, was the introduction in…