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Lucio on EDA Investment
So you’ve been toiling away in the depths of the EDA world and you are struck by an idea of monumental brilliance and potential. You…
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electronica 2014
Electronica, the enormous “trade fair for electronic components, systems, applications and services”, to quote the organisers, was nearly a month ago. So why have I…
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I Am tRoot
Sometimes even the circuit designer doesn’t know how the chip works. And that can be a good thing. If you’re designing a chip or a…
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Five Ways to Detect
A couple of months ago, we took a look at one way of using MEMS cantilevers to detect gases. Our focus was on the optics…
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Encapsulating Engineering
Those who build roads are fundamentally different from those who use roads. Those who build roads immerse themselves in every detail of the route. They…
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New Synopsys SoC Test Features
Ah, the air has cooled. The sun lolls about at a low angle for a few tentative hours. Morning frosts seal the fate of any…
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Berkeley’s RISC-V Wants to Be Free
“There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” – Jeremy S. Anderson. Ready…
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Everything as a Service
It is always fascinating to follow trend lines, and then to extrapolate them out toward infinity to see what absurd conclusions you can reach. We…
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Single-Electron Transistors
I love surprises like this. You go into what promises to be a wonky, even dull, conference presentation – and come out agog. That’s exactly…
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Intel’s 14nm ‘Tock’ Dilemma
With the production arrival of Broadwell, Intel has finally executed the ‘tick’ onto their impressive 14nm FinFET process. Broadwell is built on the Haswell microarchitecture,…