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Programmability for the People
It’s always fun to fantasize about Ferraris and FinFETs. After all, what true engineer doesn’t get a little tingly talking about terabits of bandwidth, single-digit…
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Qualcomm Discovers Its Long Tail
“Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.” – Bill Gates Well, that didn’t…
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Abstracting Register Sequences
Noooooo! Are you kidding me? How many times has this happened so far? You know tape-out is tomorrow, right? Dangit! <deep breath> Ok, what it…
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Tell Me What to Think
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink” – proverb Creativity is a funny thing. It seems so elusive at…
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Xilinx vs Intel
Sunday! Sunday… SUNDAY! Get your tickets now! Fire-breathing System-in-Package FPGAs square off in a duel for the ages! See Xilinx’s FinFET-powered 16nm TSMC-fabbed UltraScale+ Virtex…
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Interim Industrial Security
The Internet of Things used to be a topic involving more questions than answers. How should we organize the network? What type of sensors? What…
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Humans vs. Computers
“There is no cloud. It’s just someone else’s computer.” – Chris Watterston It was all my fault. I know that now. Still, they could have…
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Xilinx Tackles the “Diagonal”
Creating a successful new family of programmable devices is both easy and fun! You just guess which stuff to put on the chip, spend a…
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New SRAMs Popping Up
SRAM is everywhere these days, mostly in its embedded form. As memory gets relatively cheaper or denser, it becomes more desirable to pack robust bunches…
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The Anti-Tesla
“If the car feels like it’s under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti Electric cars have been around since the 1830s. That’s…