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Grabbing Keys Out of Thin Air
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke You have got to be kidding me. I mean, I’m an engineer. I…
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Moore’s Law Meets the Trade Press
We live and work in an amazing time. The global community of electronic engineers has created the greatest leap of technological progress in human history.…
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New Sound in Town
Microphones are not for the faint of heart. There is a sordid history of MEMS microphones, replete with big companies crying “Uncle!” and with legal…
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Return News Roundup
September, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, is often seen as the real start of the year. Companies are returning from their summer holidays and…
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Do-It-Yourself Linux Machine
It’s a good month for microprocessor aficionados, what with the new Cortus twins, the MIPS I6400, AMD’s Hierofalcon, and now Synopsys’s ARC HS38. There’s still…
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New Chips are HIPP
It’s time to speak up for the silent, to give a voice to the voiceless, to defend the downtrodden. Today is the day for action…
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Light-Headed Circuits
It’s coming to a piece of silicon near you. You may not create it; you may remain microns away from it. But there’s a good…
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Holey SuperCap!
There’s this meeting of technologies subtly underway. On one side we have batteries, which store more energy. On the other, we have supercaps, which deliver…
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Is It Time for Post-ARM Already?
If you could sell 700 million units of the product you’re designing right now, would that be a success? Seven hundred million is a big…
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Tabula Tames Verification
I have to prepare myself any time I go to meet with Steve Teig from Tabula. Steve is a bona-fide genius, and any time I…