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Aggressive Hard Drives
When I go to the SPIE Litho conference, I normally expect to hear the latest on the technologies that are next in line for getting…
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Day of the DRAM
A pair of new DRAM interfaces broke cover recently, and both promise to make engineers’ lives tougher – no, wait, easier! Sorry. Easier because the…
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The Rise of MathWorks, the Fall of EDA
Since Einstein, we’ve come to realize that more and more things depend on relativity. This is true not just in physics, but also in more…
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Quasi-Plenoptics
It’s damn sexy. You go to a picture online and you click anywhere and, “Boom,” that bit comes into focus. The first time I saw…
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TI Tiva Tames Tricky Timing Tasks
You know, it’s getting really hard to keep all these new ARM chips straight. I mean, who doesn’t make ARM-based microcontrollers these days? Last I…
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Three Legged Stool
No matter what we’re trying to design these days, we depend on three fairly distinct elements to get our system, circuit, board, or chip working…
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Grenoble News
DATE used to be a smaller version of DAC: a significant trade show with a small conference. Companies took large stands to show off the…
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Got MILF?
It’s springtime, the groundhog has seen his shadow, Easter is behind us, and a young man’s thoughts turn to… microprocessors. Every embedded system includes a…
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The Bell for Round Two
The big battle in FPGAs has traditionally been fought at the chip level. For years, we have endured press release skirmishes over who had 20%…
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A Lovelorn Gyroscope
This is a tale that starts out looking like a standard prince-meets-princess-after-a-long-search story. Alas, it’s not as tidy as it promises to be. Once upon…