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Engineering Conspiracy
We must not do this. We are not soldiers. We are not slaves. Engineers are not mindless minions, obligated to serve at the whims of…
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Cheat Codes for Your Car
“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” – King Henry II [1133 – 1189], referring to Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury In Grand…
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Boning Up on Analog
A simple, straightforward EDA whitepaper recently got me asking some demographic questions. The answers say something about where analog and digital designs are being done…
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Just a Second
It’s a bit like the chicken and the egg question. Do we improve accuracy in time-keeping in response to the needs of a new technology,…
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Prototyping the Next Generation
Moore’s Law, Moore’s Law, Moore’s Law… Up and to the right on a log scale. More of everything forever. Constantly getting bigger, faster and better;…
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The PC Is Dead! Long Live the PC!
Yesterday I dusted off some old floppy disks – literally blew dust off of them – so that I could salvage their data while there…
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Guarding the Gate
[Editor’s note: this is the fourth in a series on Internet-of-Things security. You can find the introductory piece here and the prior piece here.] You’re…
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The $5 Supercomputer
Ho-hum, another ARM-based microcontroller. Not really news, right? But every once in a while you get surprised in this business. Today I got surprised by…
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Problem Personality
Perhaps nothing is more personal and individual to engineers than our particular strategies for solving problems. In decades of managing scores of engineers on dozens…
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Big Data in Semi Manufacturing
He looked yet one more time out onto the crime scene. The answer was out there somewhere. But how many times could he come back…