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Which Wireless Will Win?
Imagine if our phones and gadgets all had wires for communication. Yeah… almost kills their usefulness. Now imagine a future sensor-saturated world, with all of…
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Wireless Power
It all started one night when an MIT denizen’s slumber was awakened by an insistent sound. No, it wasn’t the smoke detector; evidently those aren’t…
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Industrial Internet of Things for IdIoTs
Tired of hearing about the Internet of Things (IoT)? Good, because you’re about to get doused with a big stream of Industrial Internet of Things…
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What Color is Your Abstraction?
In the early days of FPGAs, we did our work with schematics. FPGAs were small, and you could stitch together a little gate-level schematic pretty…
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RTL Signoff
The concept, “High risk, high reward” doesn’t hold with semiconductors. Heck, we have an entire industry built on the notion of risk reduction: EDA. EDA…
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An Internet Processor
Qualcomm Atheros recently announced a new platform for the home (and, in the future, for business). It’s partly predicated on the fact that we’re consuming…
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Absolute Zero Privacy
John was up earlier than usual. The body monitor he wore on his wrist had awakened him during the perfect phase of his sleep cycle…
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Phone/Body Decoupling
The Holidays can be a challenging time in the US. Particularly for people that don’t like shopping, this is not a favorite time of year.…
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That’s a Stretch
We’re careening down a road towards pervasive electronics. Heck, at this rate, we’re going to end up so far away from our primal roots that…
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Do Electric Sheep Dream of Androids?
This week, people flocking to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be treated to their first look at a new kind of PC that dual-boots…