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Golgi and the IoT
We hereby embark on a reverie that commenced before and continued during the writing of this article. And I’m not quite sure if it’s done…
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Bossing Like a Boss
“Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.” – Henry Ford So you’ve risen through the ranks of engineering,…
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Altera Stratix 10
In a poker game, nobody wants to show his cards first. And with the ever-engaging Altera versus Xilinx high-stakes marketing match, it’s always riveting to…
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Granular SoC Power Control
PCs have a rudimentary form of power management. Under a limited set of circumstances, a PC can reduce its own power consumption without your manually…
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Report on the Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report
Large companies have large pools of resources. Occasionally, those resources document their work in a relatively coherent manner. And sometimes, these documents make for worthwhile…
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Astronauts, Architects, and Memory Chips
“That’s one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong, Tranquility Base, July 21, 1969 So this happened. A new…
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Selling the Soul of Innovation
A technology company has a kind of soul – a manifestation of a tribal culture that has evolved and matured from the earliest days of its founding.…
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Redefining How Software Is Created
The world they were planning to leave was a technology mess. They had watched how, in their short lifetimes, software had evolved from an obscure,…
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Bend it like Silicon
For some years, when I have travelled, my passport has been stowed in my hip pocket. This has worked well (apart from the incident with…
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Xilinx Loses Its Tail
It’s just semantics, right? With the fast-paced evolution of electronic engineering, it’s difficult to maintain a context, a sense of perspective, a mental tourist map…