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No Moore for MEMS
On April 19, 1965, Electronics magazine ran an article called “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits.” It was written by an engineer from Fairchild Semiconductor,…
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EUV’s Second Source
We, along with the rest of the lithography world, have been charting the progress of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. There are a number of puzzle…
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Apple and Serious Security: NOT an Oxymoron
I know most of you read the first few words of the title up to the colon and thought, “Oh jeez, he’s back on his…
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Are You an Android or a Robot?
There’s an old saying that programming is – ahem – like practicing the world’s oldest profession. In both cases, there is no inventory, no fixed…
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Overvoltage Protection in High Speed Communication Ports
Editor’s Note: While Amelia’s Halloween Fish Fry had us all running out and gleefully building our own singing Tesla coils, and even though shuffling quietly…
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A New IoT Cellular Network
It’s not every day that a major infrastructure build-out happens. Imagine that you wanted to switch from your current cable provider, but you wanted to…
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I Brick Your Chip
It sounds like something out of a spy thriller. A piece of security software, masquerading as a routine driver update, sniffs out enemy chips and…
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Sights on Systems
For decades, the PCB design tools competition has been a board game. The scope of the problem was the design of a single PCB, and…
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Constraining Light
Several weeks ago we took a look at the expanding role of EDA. And then a couple weeks ago we delved into the bizarre world…
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Let’s Get This Party Kickstarted
“More ideas are lost than found.” That was Maker Faire co-founder Dale Dougherty’s response to a reporter’s question about intellectual property concerns in the show-and-tell…