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Making SoCs Easier to Debug
System debugging used to be fairly straightforward. Components were on a board, linked by tracks, and, with a ‘scope and probes, you could look at…
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Trust
[Editor’s note: this is the second in a series on Internet-of-Things security. You can find the introductory piece here.] So you’re buying a car. I…
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Summertime Beach Reading
So a sports car just drove itself around a racetrack and did pretty well, setting competitive lap times. Audi’s self-driving RS7 lapped Sears Point (aka…
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The Cost of Teamwork
Ask anyone who works in a typical corporate environment to describe their schedule for an average week. Chances are, a significant percentage of their work…
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“The Wave” Goes Micro
Picture yourself leading a march down the street. If you’re lucky, you’ve got an advance team handling logistics, and traffic has been blocked all around…
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Engineering Agility
A good engineer is constantly evolving. We don’t graduate from engineering school perfectly loaded with all the skills and expertise we need. Instead, we graduate…
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DOT-Matrix Driving
In Egypt, driving is a contact sport. I spent a few weeks there on vacation and was lucky enough to have been refused a rental…
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Interop Gets Complicated
I was wrong. There: I said it. I can sleep unburdened tonight. And what earth-threatening mistake had I made? I mistook syntax for semantics. But…
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PUF, the Magic’s Draggin’
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” – Ernest Rutherford If you think about it, “random” is really just a euphemism for any pattern…
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Bringing Light to Dark Silicon
For the past few years, we’ve all been hearing the discussions about “Dark Silicon.” Besides being a really cool and ominous-sounding label, dark silicon is…