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Off to the Android Races
“I don’t always benchmark my Android devices. But when I do, I prefer AndEBench-Pro.” – The Most Boring Man in the World Benchmarking, like economics,…
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FPGAs in the IoT
In the 1960s, an electronic device was “cool” if it had the word “transistor” in it. Even though the general public didn’t understand the benefits…
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And Then There Was One
Once upon a time, roughly a month ago, there were sensor makers, who made sensors and did some amount of their own sensor fusion software,…
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Wireless Wramblings
Deciding what to write about for EEJournal is difficult. It is not that there is a lack of stories, but picking just one topic out…
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Tesla, Edison, and the Patent Office
Elon Musk is a guy so rich that he builds real-life rocket ships for fun. He also builds electric cars. Or, more accurately, he built…
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Black Helicopters
John had been working for almost six weeks on a single part of the design persistence code. He had made no discernable progress. His original…
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Analog Breakthrough?
You are now entering the “It can’t be done” zone. But, at least for the moment, I’ll ask that you relax that axiom, even if…
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IoT Needs Better B&Bs
While top-flight bed & breakfasts would no doubt do a world of good for many IoT developers, the “B&B” in the title refers to BANDWIDTH…
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Crossbar RRAM Tweaks Nonvolatile Memory
I gotta say, memory chips are boring. And that’s coming from a guy who lives and works in the chip business. Sure, I can get…
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Combatting Complexity
I once had a colleague who defined a “system” as “the thing one level of complexity higher than you can understand.” I always thought there…