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Code, Copyright, and Craziness
“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” – Chris Robinson I’m not a lawyer (thankfully), but that won’t stop me from rendering…
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Nanoparticle Resists
Back when we covered the state of EUV lithography, we mentioned yet another ongoing resist tale: that of nanoparticles. It seemed like its own independent story,…
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Toward Intelligent Vision
I’m told that the motivation for the iconic 1979 Saturday Night Live skit was a loosening of the US censor restrictions on broadcast television. For…
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The World’s Best Multiplexer
“Better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond.“ – Anonymous In biology, it’s known as…
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Collaboration Between OPC UA and DDS
Some time back, we addressed the many standards and would-be standards and proprietary formats populating the IoT space. Because there are so many, it’s easy,…
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A Fashion Exhibit for Makers
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art just opened their new Spring/Summer fashion exhibit: “Manus X Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology,”…
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Atom, We Hardly Knew Ye
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” –US Senator Everett Dirkson (likely misattributed) You can’t axe 12,000 jobs without…
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FPGAs for the Masses?
Over the years, there have been many attempts to make FPGAs easier to use, and most of them now occupy the footnotes of FPGA history.…
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Analog Spring
Ah, spring is here, and analog is in the air! Um… yeah, that sounded better in my head than on paper. Guess it’s why Shakespeare…
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PCB with a Faster Cadence
The PCB Design tool race is perhaps the most stable and long-lived competition in all of electronic design automation. Since at least the 1980s, commercial…