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A Harvest of Heat
You’re wasting energy right now. You and many of the things all around you. OK, perhaps it’s unfair to assign such specific agency – it’s…
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Barbarians at—damn, make that INSIDE—the Gate
Fasten your seatbelts, this is going to be a long one. And perhaps my most important EE Journal article yet, though I will leave that…
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Achronix Beats the Odds
Few challenges in the world of high-technology startups are as daunting as that of putting a new FPGA company on the map. Sure, there’s the…
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It’s Not Me, It’s You
“The fault… is not in our stars, but in ourselves…” – Cassius, Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141) Paperwork – you gotta love it. There’s…
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Build Your Own EDA Tool
So your company needs to design a system-on-chip (SoC). On the one hand, there’s a lot of that going around. On the other hand, the…
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Programming Below Decks
Do you remember that scene in Titanic where the lower-class passengers are trapped behind locked gates and left to drown? (To be fair, it’s more…
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Engineering Childhood’s End
My fingers trembled and my heart pounded. I carefully bent spring terminal #35 and inserted the tinned end of the final wire. I was confident…
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More IoT Standards
It started with mentions of two new (at least to me) standards in conference presentations: I3C and LoRa. I made a note to learn more…
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A Look ‘Pack’ at CES 2015
I’ve had a month to mull over CES 2015 and read much of the breathless coverage. I’ll get my own ball rolling with Intel, the…
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Tabula Nada
Call it aggressive; call it innovative; call it bat-poop crazy. Whatever your views, Tabula certainly had interesting ideas about how to design an FPGA. But…