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Patents Expired! Create Your Own Processor!
“Why, it’s turtles all the way down!” – anonymous, in describing recursive philosophy Now that we’re well into the 21st Century, some of the microprocessors…
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IoT Phone Home?
Can you hear them? They’re out there. Millions of tiny digital voices shouting wistfully into the abyss. They are trying, trying, trying to make contact.…
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Mentor and Verification Productivity
Tired of spending all that time doing verification? Yeah, well, everyone is, so get in line for the “Can I Finally Be Done Verifying –…
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Hiding In Plain Sight
“I guess I’m just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.” – Junot Diaz If you were told that…
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Integrity Simplified
These days, the metal on your PCB has to do a lot more than just connect a few dots. With the pervasiveness of high-speed serial…
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Yet Another Wireless Protocol
[Editor’s note: this article has been updated at the end. In addition, new information from more recent products meant a change to the current used…
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We are Teaching the Wrong Lessons
I had planned to write about new advanced technologies (quantum computing and the like) and to report on SEMI’s Industry Strategy Symposium Europe, but instead,…
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Math Works Harder
“Verilog and VHDL are the most natural and efficient ways for me to express my design intent.” — No one. Ever. Whether we’re doing FPGA or…
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EUV Becomes an Answer Instead of a Question
The mood was dramatically different from prior years. Hope was in the air, and there was a distinct sense that the long sought-after achievement might…
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Why We Work: a Documentary
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker Why do you go to work? Is it because you’ve found…