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Let There Be Vision
The Internet of People has cameras – literally billions of them. They are in smartphones, laptops, tablets, WiFi devices – it sometimes seems they’re watching…
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Of Trapdoors and Elliptic Curves and Braids
[Editor’s note: this is the fifth in a series on Internet-of-Things security. You can find the introductory piece here and the prior piece here.] There’s…
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Strong AND Simple
The biggest challenge historically in the high-stakes, cat-and-mouse game between hackers and security/authentication solutions is that stronger authentication solutions tend to create troublesome and annoying…
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Emulating the Success of Others
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” — Charles Caleb Colton If you’ve been keeping up on weird, ambitious microprocessor designs – and really, who…
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Debug Tools are for Losers…Oh, and Teams that Meet Schedules
We don’t need no stinkin’ FPGA debug tools! Debug tools are for those “other” engineers. You know, the ones who make mistakes. As engineers, it’s…
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How Fungible Is Your Technology?
Fungible [fuhn-juh-buh l] adjective, Law. 1. (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in…
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Horses for Courses
Can’t we all just get along? The DSP programmers don’t talk to the CPU programmers; the GPU programmers won’t sit at the lunch table with…
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Xilinx Gets All Arty
Sure, the announcement that Xilinx is now “shipping” their first 16nm FinFET-based super-amazing Zynq UltraScale+ All Programmable MPSoCs is kinda’ a big deal. Zynq UltraScale+…
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Direct Line to the Cloud
We’ve spent quite a bit of energy talking about various communication patterns for use in the Internet of Things (IoT). There’s the ever-popular publish/subscribe (P/S)…
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The 5 Best Things from World Maker Faire 2015
After the EE Journal team’s inspiring and fascinating trip to last year’s World Maker Faire in New York, we were pumped this year to head out…