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2014 Letdown
At a recent semi-social, semi-business function, I was asked what I thought the highlights were in electronics in 2014. I was stumped. Not only could…
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Little Conexant Makes a Big Noise
Conexant is one of those companies that used to be big. Like Polaroid, Pan Am, Commodore, Westinghouse, or Life magazine, it carries a once-proud brand…
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Securing Your System with FPGAs
Security used to be the purview of the select few – those working on defense projects, financial systems, or other “high-security” devices and platforms. Today,…
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Nav Grade Goes MEMS
OK, so, those of you who have notions about consumer-grade inertial measurement units (IMUs)? Listen, I need you to do something for me now. Actually,…
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Amazon’s Head in the Cloud
At face value, it is a bit of a brain twister: Amazon’s goal of being the “everything store” on the one hand, that is, and…
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New Year’s Resolution: 1024 x 768
With a quick polish of the crystal ball (okay, it’s a snow globe) and a tip of the hat to Scott Hilburn, I do hereby…
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Driver’s Ed for FPGAs
Letting go of the steering wheel for the first time will be a terrifying milestone for most drivers. As engineers, we have all known for…
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Hardware Security: Getting Serious
There’s the textbook version of the tech business, where hard-working innovators push the edges of technology, bringing ever-more-efficient products into a free market where consumers…
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More Indoor Location Services
We’ve talked before about the challenges of navigating indoors. It was a hard problem then; it remains a hard problem today, with numerous technological contributions…
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Instruments for the Black-Turtleneck Crowd
“Oh, and one more thing…” You can almost hear the ghost of Steve Jobs introducing the Saleae Logic Pro 16, gesturing to a rear-projection screen…