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There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 2)
As we discussed in the initial installment of this 2-part extravaganza, some people pursue a predictable path on their way to engineer-hood (where “-hood” comes…
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Apple’s iPhone 15 debunks the “full-line” semiconductor supplier myth
From time to time, I’ll get a presentation from a company announcing a new product, usually a new chip, that includes a statement like this:…
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There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 1)
I was born in 1957. If you are on the younger side of things, I bet you’re thinking something along the lines of, “Wow! That’s…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Electronics as a Hobby
My recent article about language drift in electronics over the past half century or so (see “Old Electronics Terms Show Language Drift Over the Decades”)…
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GOWIN’s “Golly Gosh” Low-Cost High-Performance FPGAs
I remember when the first FPGA waved a cheery hello to the world back in 1985. (I know I’ve talked about this before, but there…
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Silvaco’s Fab Technology Co-Optimization (FTCO): From Atoms to Systems
I was just taking a trip down memory lane, remembering how things used to be when I was but a lad. Since the dawn of…
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Microchip unveils PIC64 family of RISC-V multicore processor chips for Earth and for space
Literally the day after writing the article about the Microchip PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit based on the company’s PolarFire SoC FPGA, Microchip gave me a…
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Welcome to Silicon-to-Systems Space (Where No One Can Hear You Scream)
I’m not sure if I’m growing to be incredibly old, or if it’s just that everyone around me is getting to be incredibly young. The…
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The strange case of the Recalcitrant Roku 3 and the microSD card
I’ve been pretty hard on HP Inc. regarding my misadventures with that company’s inkjet printers, so I thought I’d go hard on another consumer product…
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Microchip’s PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit provides low-cost access to a powerful SoC FPGA development platform
Nearly every new electronic system needs some sort of microprocessor or microcontroller. Modern microprocessor hardware is just too useful and too inexpensive not to include…