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Ignore Those Pesky Bugs
“We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also…
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Portable Heterogeneous Multicore
So you’ve got some compute-intensive work to do, and you need the results really fast. OK, well, here: I wrote some code that takes full…
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A Dendrite-Free Lithium Anode
This is yet another tale from the long saga of the Quest to Build a Better Battery. We’re all waiting for the day when we…
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Buses, Windows, and You
“I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little…
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The Hardware Vanishing Point
The disciplines of hardware and software engineering have always been intertwined and symbiotic – like the yin and yang of some bizarre abstract beast. Software…
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A Stictionless NEMS Switch
Mechanical switches are as old as, well, electricity. Whether you picture the giant two-handed switches in horror movies or the simple wall switches in our…
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Eschew the Real World
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret…
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Altera Turbos the Tools
When people are curious about the performance and capabilities of programmable logic products, they often get buried in the details of the datasheet. It’s easy…
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Faster Extraction
So you build a circuit with a couple of transistors here and a couple of transistors there and you want to see how it’s going…
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The RSA Conference
I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week. I would have posted this article earlier, but it took some time to decrypt my…