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Smaller, Cheaper SerDes
Over the past few years, Lattice Semiconductor has transformed itself from a struggling, distant third-place supplier of FPGAs to a scrappy, innovative competitor opening up…
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Whither Lithography?
It’s been a few weeks since the annual gathering of the world’s semiconductor lithography illuminati, put on by SPIE. And we’ve covered a few of…
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CEO For a Day
You finally get the phone call. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are on speakerphone, calling you while you grill hot dogs in the backyard. Beer…
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Toward Ten TeraFLOPS
The Cray-2, the world’s fastest computer until about 1990, was capable of almost 2 GigaFLOPS (Billion Floating Point Operations per Second) – at an inflation-adjusted…
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Programming QuickLogic’s Sensor Hub
Well, it seems to be sensor hub season. A couple of interesting things are brewing. One, in particular, is of strategic significance, and I’ll be…
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Freescale Goes Nuts for ARM
They say change is good, so Freescale must be the best microprocessor company in the whole world. What hasn’t this company done? It’s change its…
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Heartbleed: Serious Security Vulnerability
Imagine if you woke up one morning, and found out that Walmart was now selling a device for $5 that could easily and instantly open…
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Testing Out the Rules
It wasn’t too long ago that we took a look at a new tool from Sage DA that could be used to create design rules…
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New Approaches to Old Problems
The Dresden conference centre was designed to represent a stark modern contrast to the restored Baroque buildings of the old town of Dresden. For some…
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Attack of the Tiny Terrors
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the lab… The chip designers at Microchip must have a lot of time on…