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Mentor’s Latest Xpedition
Respin! Respin! Respin! Are you afraid yet? For three decades, the electronic design automation (EDA) industry has relied on that fear. They learned way back…
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New Inspectors Are Afoot
At Semicon West this year, inspection seemed to be all the rage with two of the big equipment makers. Both KLA-Tencor (KT) and Applied Materials…
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Custom Silicon for Makers
Makers are the epitome of what big chip vendors used to consider a waste of time for their valuable salesfolk. “Fred in the shed,” as…
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Dichotomy and Contradiction
“Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.” – Lt. Lenina Huxley, “Demolition Man” Who remembers the one-word tag line, “Beatrice,” at the end of TV commercials?…
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A New Era for EDA?
The EDA industry has always been a bit of an enigma. On one hand, EDA has provided the essential technology that has enabled Moore’s Law…
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A Four-Way Vehicular Radio Module
Redpine Signals is placing a bet. It might have been less of a bet a year or two ago, but things change, and the future…
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ARM: We’re Turning Japanese
“Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger.” – The Vapors You can stop reading now. Really, there’s nothing to see here, folks. Go on about…
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Spicing Up SPICE
Years ago, my brother was visiting relatives in Austria. As the story goes, the family was aristocratic once upon a time, and, while that didn’t…
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BREXIT, ARM and Uncertainty
In the last few days, I heard that Garrison Keillor will no longer be intoning, “It has been a quiet week in Lake Woebegone…” He…
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Treading on Thin Air
Somewhere, in a nondescript cubicle in building number umpteen of a multi-billion-dollar multinational multi-technology conglomerate, an engineer sits at a lab bench staring at an…