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A 1T (or 2T) SRAM Bit Cell
There are few semiconductor circuits as constant as the SRAM cell. Until now. SRAM is important because it’s our fastest-performance memory tier – and it…
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EDA: Expanding or Fading?
Those of you who have been with us a long time may well remember that our humble journal didn’t start out as EE Journal. In…
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Teaching a Doll to Swear and Other Stories
Is the Internet of Things (IoT) anything more than marketing hype – just a rebranding of M2M – or is it a force that will…
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The Secret Secret to Secrets
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas I’m no expert in computer security. But I know some people who are. Crypto-weenies…
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Chaos in the Cloud
Storm clouds are building on the horizon. Massive thunderheads darken the sky, their convective currents creating blinding static outbursts as enormous caches of charge follow…
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Is Your Design Process Secure?
[Editor’s note: this is the seventh and final installment in a series on Internet-of-Things security. You can find the introductory piece here and the prior…
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High-Level Design for Everyone
For more than two decades, the promise of high-level design methodologies has been dangled in front of digital hardware designers. High-level design was going to…
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Small Change, Big Difference
They say football is a game of inches, and League of Legends is a game of millimeters. Well, making microprocessor chips is a game of…
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A Step Towards Liquid Cooling
So there you are, slowly creeping up the hill behind 12 other vehicles. Even though the speed limit is 55. Tempers are flaring and horns…
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Living in a Multi-Screen World
What is a K or k? If you are in the world of SI units, then k is the magnitude symbol for 103 (= 1,000).…