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A Unified Chip/Package/Board Flow
ANSYS has recently released version 17 of their tools, simply referred to as ANSYS 17. The improvements they made cover a lot of ground, much…
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Shasta Has a High Peak
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” – Mark Twain They say seeing is believing. Speaking as a professional skeptic, I’ll withhold judgement until I’ve…
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Oil and Vinegar
Where will next decade’s innovation come from? Will it spring from secret labs buried deep in the bowels of multi-billion-dollar corporations? Will it bootstrap itself…
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PNI Turns Navigation, Kalman Upside Down
We’ve talked a lot about navigation in the past, especially as it relates to the indoor version, where you can’t rely on GPS. Well, PNI…
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Magnets Help the Harvest
Today we talk magnets. In particular, a couple of different ways magnets were shown to participate in energy harvesting schemes at last November’s IDTechEx show…
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Xilinx 1, Intel 0
I’ll just say right up front that this is really mostly about bragging rights. No corporate destinies are shaped, no fortunes won or lost, no…
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When Things Get Weird
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson Speaking of standards – what, you didn’t memorize last week’s column? –…
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How It’s Built: Micron/Intel 3D NAND
3D NAND embodies the new vertical scaling direction for flash memory. We’ve heard about it for a while, at least in terms of what the…
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All Hail the Dev Kit
We like to pretend that engineers choose their parts by detailed analysis of data sheets and careful study of critical specifications. But the truth is,…
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Getting Creative with Standards
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” — Anonymous I saw a click-bait headline the other day that suggested that engineering standards…