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Clouds Forming Over IoT
“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.” – Joan Rivers It just…
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FD-SOI: No Longer a Cul de Sac
The old kid in town repeats, “Not so fast…” When FinFETs came onto the scene, planar transistors were declared a thing of the past. Everyone…
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Ad Hoc Engineering
“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” — Stonewall Jackson “Hey, kids, let’s put on a…
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Software is Hard
Let me first make one thing perfectly clear: I’m proud to be a software engineer. For the first twenty years plus after I graduated from…
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SiTime Mauls Quartz
You know, SiTime really seems to have it in for quartz. I talked with them last month about their new Elite family, and, reviewing my…
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Cyberwarfare and Cyber Whack-a-Mole
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, the Prussian general who also was a theoretical thinker, wrote, “War is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”…
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Being and Nothingness
“Two households, both alike in dignity… from ancient grudge break new mutiny.” – Prologue, “Romeo and Juliet” The two companies could not be more different,…
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Tackling System Design
What is a system? Each of us probably has a different definition. Many of us probably have more than one. Even though the term “System…
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Analog Circuit and Model Exploration
Call it a new age of exploration. You’ve got a design to do – an analog one in particular – and you’ve got to come…
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Ethics and Horizontal Integration
“Obviously bad people could use this to…” The presenter paused, and didn’t finish his sentence. The audience was left to fill in the obvious gap,…