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Micro-Super-Computer-Chip
Sometimes the smallest things can knock you back on your heels and make you go, “Wow.” Sure, we work in an industry of constant innovation.…
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LTE To Go
The mobile world is undergoing a wonderful standards convergence. Instead of an alphabet soup of competing standards – GSM, CDMA, HSPA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMax, EDGE,…
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FPGA Fone Fusion
Here’s one possible way to not get a job. Let’s say the interviewer asks you about things inside a cell phone. And you, having an…
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Art Majors vs. Programmers
Maybe it’s a left-brain/right-brain thing. Programmers usually aren’t very good user-interface designers. Drawing all those windows, buttons, and scroll bars gives most developers the willies.…
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FPGAs Ready-to-Eat
The FPGA market is a wasteland – littered with the battered corpses of startup companies who thought they could build a better mousetrap. They attacked…
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3D IC Testing and Yields
It used to be pretty straightforward to figure out the cost of a finished IC. You had a linear progression of steps, each of which…
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Mystery CPU for the Masses
Pop quiz! What’s the second-most-popular CPU core in the world? First place goes to ARM, of course, but who’s the runner-up? If you guessed MIPS,…
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The Hard Ceiling
Moore’s Law is a maddening mistress. As our engineering community has collectively held the tail of this comet for the past forty-seven years, we’ve desperately…
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Taking Sensors to a Trillion
You’ve probably all attended one of these meetings. A high-ranking person in an organization wants to make a strategic change or raise the priority of…
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Demystifying CPC
With apologies to Shakespeare, online marketers have been swamped with metrics over the past couple of decades. With the alphabet soup of online marketing –…