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UEFI: Boot, Boon, or Bane?
My learned colleague Bryon Moyer pointed out to me a recent news item regarding a lawsuit by a Linux user group that is suing Microsoft…
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The Tall Thin Engineer
Engineering is one of the very few professions that constantly re-engineer themselves. By doing our work well, we change forever the nature of the work…
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Novel Nutrient Delivery
Humans like to think big. From the days of Icarus, there has been a balancing act between daring and hubris: the former clears out the…
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The Race to the Bottom
Intel is the world’s the best-known chip maker, and that description may soon become more accurate than we realize. Just a few weeks ago, Intel…
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Design 100G With Tabula’s ABAX2
“Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain; you feel it. You’ve felt it…
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Accelerometer Buckets
I’ll be the first to confess that what follows originates purely from my own ignorance. (OK, I suspect more articles than I’d like to admit…
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Taking the Pulse of the Embedded Industry
The idea behind going to a trade event like embedded world, which was held in Nuremberg at the end of February, is to try to…
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Like Ant Man
In a comic-book universe crowded with superheroes, Ant Man was a standout. While all the other characters were going bigger, faster, and stronger, Ant Man’s…
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Island Life Made Easier
It can be cool living on an island. As long as there are reasonable resources available, you can remain slightly detached from whatever larger landmass…
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An Independent Analysis of Floating-point DSP Design Flow and Performance on Altera 28nm FPGAs
BDTI performed an independent analysis of Altera’s floating-point DSP design flow. BDTI’s objective was to assess the performance that can be obtained on Altera FPGAs…