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Emerging MEMS and Sensor Technology
A couple of years ago, our pages were full of MEMS and sensor innovations, each touting an improvement over something in the past. Then… things…
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My Ruler Must Be Broken
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’” – Isaac Asimov According to…
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FPGA Synthesis Showdown
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand cricket, but I’m told that cricket matches can sometimes run for days on end, and…
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A Non-FinFET Path to 10 nm
It was the coolest transistor development in many a year. Rather than continually squishing transistor parts closer and closer together, we flipped it to vertical…
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How to Select the Right Embedded Design Software
Regardless of your job or industry, things are moving faster than ever. With breakthroughs in technology happening on a regular basis, new competitors can disrupt…
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The Business of the Impossible
There aren’t many industries where 15 units qualifies as “a big order.” Battleships. Nuclear power plants. And EUV tools. For the 14,000 employees at Dutch…
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The Internet of Seeing Things
There is no question that the Internet of Things (IoT) is exploding. There are estimates that, in the near future, trillions of devices will be…
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Who Owns the IoT Gateway?
We spend a lot of effort talking about Internet of Things (IoT) edge nodes. Not only do they do the real work of the IoT,…
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What Would Spock Do?
You invent stuff. Your colleagues over there in the [fill in the blank] department invent stuff, too. Together, everyone in your company collaborates to invent…
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YoT – the Year of Things
The song has been sung, the corks popped, the celebrations made, and the consequences endured. 2015 has ended, and we have plunged headlong into 2016.…