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Turning Brown Fields to Green
There is no such thing as “the Internet of Things (IoT).” I’m gradually coming around to the conclusion that this entity, as something integral, is…
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Let’s Get Small, v3.0
Most startups have no product. This one has shipped 60 million products before coming out of stealth mode. Say hello to mCube, probably the most…
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When Intel Buys Altera
At the Gigaom Structure 2014 event last week, Intel’s Diane Bryant announced that Intel is “integrating [Intel’s] industry-leading Xeon processor with a coherent FPGA in…
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Surround-By-Cobalt
Metal has always been a bit messy. Even in the old days, when we laid metal lines over the rough terrain that resulted from various…
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Kaizen and the Art of Vehicle Maintenance
How often has this happened to you? You’re sitting outside a Paris café, sipping aperitifs, when suddenly you find yourself wondering about your car’s tire…
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BFFs 4 FPGAs
He raised his binoculars and scanned the surface of the water. The wind was gusting – causing irregular dark patches of waves to move mysteriously…
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Who Gets Access?
It’s like we have two separate brains, and only one of them can be on at a time. In one brain, we deal with desktop…
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Testing Big-Ass Transistors
We talk a lot about transistors in these pages. But usually our discussions center around billions of microscopic transistors acting in concert. This article is…
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IoT = Internet of Tattletales
All life on earth is insects. To a first-order approximation, there are no trees, no fish, no mammals, no birds, and no bacteria. If you…
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Is the Classic Design Chain Broken?
It used to be so simple. A group of chip designers would sit around drinking coffee and gently mulling things over when one would say,…