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Cramming Moore Components
It’s been a half-century since Gordon Moore published “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits” in the April 19, 1965 edition of Electronics Magazine. It was…
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All About Messaging Protocols
It started with a review a few weeks back of a few stray new (to me) protocols that I was seeing. I did a cursory…
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ARTEMIS is Dead – Long Live ECSEL
The European Union (EU) is a complicated beast. It isn’t a United States of Europe, although in some lights it can look like it, as…
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A Dialog with Imagination
Ooh, trends. Gotta love ’em. There are trends in music, trends in fashion, trends in politics, trends in economic theory, and trends in our good…
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FPGAs in Space
In space, no one can hear you scream – about how your FPGA got hit by a neutron, which caused a single-event-upset, resulting in a…
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Revamped Digital IC Flow
It’s a familiar tale of woe: new silicon process nodes are creating an extreme burden for design tools. When I say, “familiar,” it’s not just…
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The Vision Thing
Politicians used to argue about “the vision thing,” a borderline unintelligible swipe at opponents who didn’t share their view of the big picture. As a…
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Put an FPGA IN It
Kato, Robin, Watson, Tonto, Spock, Barney, Hutch, Higgins, FPGAs – everyone knows the importance of a top-notch sidekick. We’ve seen FPGAs teamed up with countless…
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A 50×50 Photonics/MEMS Optical Switch
Picture the huge datacenters run by Google and Facebook and their ilk. Imagine that, as big as they are, each of those datacenters serves only…
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Watching Apple
The 9 March event provided color on the Apple Watch; it revealed the future of Apple the company Well that was interesting; at times, downright…