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555 versus Raspberry Pi Pico: Which side are you on?
I’ve seen a lot of engineering religious wars over the decades. Chances are, you have as well. Here’s a very partial list of some wars…
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From Thought to Circuit in Record Time with AI
Thus far, if the truth be told, I’ve had mixed experiences with large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as personified by ChatGPT.…
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Zeke and His Chums Are Poised to Chat with the ISS
Good Grief! It’s happened again! I must have blinked, or sneezed, or… hmm… enjoyed a bodacious bowl of beans (let us say), only to find…
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NIST Issues New Quantum Crypto Standards for Cyberspace
NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, has finally published a trio of new standards for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in an attempt to…
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New PSoC Brains for Motor and Power Applications
I’ve often been moved to say that I don’t have many regrets in my life. I even used to believe this myself, right up until…
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Unobtainium is where you find it: What happens when you can’t source an old IC?
If you’ve designed electronic systems for a while, or if you’ve repaired vintage electronic equipment, no doubt you’ve run into the fascinating term “unobtainium.” Here’s…
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Adiuvo Engineering’s Leonidas Spartan 7 Tile makes it easy for you to drop an FPGA into your design
By the time you read this article, you should be able to get Adiuvo Engineering’s new Leonidas Spartan 7 Tile. It went on sale for…
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Have You Forgotten Anything?
I just had an interesting video conference call. It started off as so many things do… with people laughing at me (I live for the…
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Jim Handy, The Memory Guy, steps in with a report on CXL’s near-term future
Back in May, I discussed CXL and gave some reasons that I thought would lead to its success. (See “The Adventures of CXL Across the…
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Eeek! GenAI-Powered Design and Verification EDA Tools
I just got off a video conference call with a company I cannot name that’s developed a technology I cannot discuss to power a product…