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Formal in the Cloud
The cloud is the future of everything, they say. You won’t need a computer anymore, they say. Just a phone and ubiquitous connectivity are all…
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Parallel Processing
In the days when the American colonies were revolting, British soldiers were dressed in red, and all their actions were executed in unison. (At least,…
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FinFEUD
He eyed the horizon suspiciously as he leaned his shotgun against the porch railing and reclined into the wooden seat suspended on chains from the…
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Going Local
It snuck up and hit me during a Virtuoso presentation earlier this year by Cadence. It was a reference to “local interconnect.” It was the…
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A Clean-By-Construction Deck
So you’ve spent many months on a chip design project that’s winding down. Layout is done, or at least you hope it’s done, and it’s…
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Atmel Rushes to the Bottom
Remember Luminary Micro’s tagline about offering “32 bits for a buck”? Well, Atmel is now doing approximately the same thing. The company has just launched…
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Building a Bigger Better Igloo
Microsemi’s FPGAs – going all the way back to the Actel days – had some interesting and compelling features and advantages. Because their logic fabric…
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More Touch
If there’s any pervasive theme that’s come out of our obsession with phones and tablets in recent years, it’s that everyone must want touch technology…
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Pieces of the Internet of Things
A few years ago I was meeting with a small wireless interconnect company called ZeroG Wireless, and the discussion included a vision of machines and…
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Vogon Poetry
Douglas Adams tells us in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the Vogons have the third-worst poetry in the galaxy. Thankfully, he never describes the…