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Hardware Emulation: The Clash of The Titans
Editor’s note: Lauro Rizzatti may be best known for his association with EVE, now part of Synopsys. Just to be clear, he is no longer…
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An Open Sensor Platform
It might just be the end of another lurch. Technology doesn’t evolve in a smooth, continuous fashion. Someone has an idea for something totally new…
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Is the Internet of Things fully ARMed?
You know something is probably reaching the stage of over-hype when politicians try to climb on the bandwagon. Earlier in the year, at the CeBIT…
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Life Before Windows
Gather ’round the campfire, children, as we talk about The Time Before Operating Systems. That was when all computers came with their own built-in software,…
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Dawn of a new Ara
It would be easy to blow off Google’s “Project Ara” modular smartphone concept as just another one of those Google science fair projects that will…
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Viva Vivado!
As we enter what will perhaps become the “long tail” of Moore’s Law, the traditional battlefield for FPGA companies is shifting dramatically. For most of…
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EDA for DSA
They’d built up the sheep ranch over several decades. Starting small, they learned through experience how sheep thrive. They gradually diversified, experimenting with different breeds…
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The Last Centimeter
The cool thing about connected devices is that… well, they’re connected. Which, these days, means that they have access to immeasurable amounts of… whatever is…
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Would You Watch Robo-Sports?
“The only real sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing, and auto racing. All the others are merely games.” – Ernest Hemingway So who d’ya like for…
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New MIPS CPUs are Virtually Better
If multiple CPUs aren’t enough for you, how about multiple operating systems on one CPU? That’s what virtualization is all about, and MIPS now offers…