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Go-Fast FPGA Design
Most of us engineers are at least closet hot-rodders. It’s in our DNA. No matter how good a contraption is from the factory, we just…
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Feed It Forward (And Back)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) had resulted in marked improvements in his ability to access the people and places and resources that normatively-abled people…
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A Self-Sufficient Sensor Node
We recently took a look at one side of vibration: the side that uses it to diagnose nascent illness in manufacturing equipment. And I hinted…
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Be a Better Programmer
We all say we want to learn new things, but the first part of learning is admitting your ignorance. Little kids in elementary school have…
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Going Vertical
We’ve talked a lot lately in these pages about the impending demise of Moore’s Law. Consensus is that, somewhere around the half-century mark, one of…
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IoT Standards
OK, so, the Internet of Things (IoT) is hot and heavy, and everyone and their cuzzins are putting “IoT” on their press releases so that…
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¡Viva el Nodo de 28nm!
We’ve spilled a lot of ink on 14/16nm FinFET here at EE Journal. It is exciting stuff: bleeding-edge process technology and a fabulous new transistor…
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The Overachieving Middle Child
“Bifurcate” is a word you don’t get to use very often. Yet it’s a familiar concept in our industry. Mobile operating systems have bifurcated into…
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There’s a Processor in My FPGA!
The idea of processors and FPGAs working together is exactly as old as the idea of FPGAs. Perhaps older, in fact, because even the prehistoric…
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Optimization Moves Up a Level
There are a lot of reasons why we can create so much circuitry on a single piece of silicon. Obvious ones include hard work developing…