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Intel’s First FPGAs
They call themselves Intel now. Sure, they still live in the Altera building and the technology is still unmistakably Altera’s, but the company has now…
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Beacons As IoT Channels
At any given moment, it’s hard to tell whether the Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology or a mish-mash of technologies. It tends to…
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It May Be Big and Bulky, But It’s Slow!
“…then we hold the world ransom for one million dollars!” – Dr. Evil, “Austin Powers” When you think of a “megaprocessor,” what do you imagine?…
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The Quiet FPGAs
We don’t hear much about Microsemi in the FPGA world these days. In fact, it would be pretty easy to forget that the company –…
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Matching Patterns
When you look at someone’s face, what do you see? I suppose that depends on who you are. Many people are good at picking up…
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Something in the Air
When you are next in a hospital, watch the medical staff as they get into a lift. The odds are they will call out the…
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News Flash: Hell Still Not Frozen Over
“Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.” – John Donne You don’t often see the names “Intel” and “ARM” used together in…
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Flash for IoT, Automotive, and Mobile
Memory is memory, right? OK, OK, yeah, there’s different types. DRAM, SRAM, non-volatile (typically NOR and NAND). But, within each family, memory is memory. Right?…
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Big Data Moves to “Electronics”
Last year, right around this time, we took a look at a company called Optimal+. They were harvesting reams of semiconductor test data so that…
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Next Door to Genius
“If you can’t say something nice about someone, come sit right here by me.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth This story is part grave digging, part…