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Of Soft Balls and Hard Cracks
“The only real sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing, and automobile racing. All others are mere games.” – Ernest Hemingway We’ve all made the joke, “If…
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Taking the FPGA Pulse
For years now various people have been tracking the EDA process for ASICs and SoCs, and we have a pretty good idea of what the…
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On the MEMS/NEMS Leading Edge
Wow, here it is March, and there’s still more to talk about from IEDM. That said, this will wrap it up – just in time…
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At Least This Time It Was OUR OWN Barbarians
Just 48 hours after the world discovered the Carbanak APT … “[Carbanak] is likely the most sophisticated attack the world has seen to date in…
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Storm the Barricades and Pro Test
Those darn processors. They keep getting faster and we keep running out of ways to keep track of them. In the beginning, there was clock…
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Plunify’s FPGA Proof Point
Breaking into any part of the FPGA market ecosystem is a substantial challenge. Countless companies have launched with various novel ways to take advantage of…
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Quilt Packaging
So you’re working on a big die, eh? Maybe a huge imaging die – sized to capture a wide field with high resolution? Yeah… die…
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Return of the Hobbyist
Now bear in mind that I am a mature Englishman, so when I talk boards I am not looking at the sort of thing that…
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Tools! Tools! Tools!
If this is February it must be Nürnberg. Or Barcelona. Either way, it’s the month when embedded developers head to Central Europe. (The ones with…
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Xilinx Throws Down
When the #1 FPGA company makes what is arguably their biggest new-technology announcement in a decade, you’d expect there to be a lot of substance.…