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Analog at 20
Analog designers bear a heavier burden than many other designers. If you’re a digital guy, someone is out there creating cells for you, abstracting away…
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Beaten Up By Bad Bytes
I try to be good. I really do. I eat my vegetables, help old ladies cross the street, and floss my teeth occasionally. I maintain…
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The Elephant in the Cloud
The Cloud… Oh, the Cloud. Always right there, the answer to all our IT problems, and yet… and yet… for designers, the promise seems to…
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Seeing Into the Distance
It’s been made into a big deal, and you can thank Avatar. Once a goofy movie gimmick that required glasses you wouldn’t get caught wearing…
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Secure Your Communications
Sun Microsystems’ cofounder Scott McNealy’s quote from January, 1999 (was that really 14 years ago?) was more right than we imagined—or hoped. Online bank accounts…
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A Matter of Integrity
Board design and layout used to be so simple. All you had to do was make sure that all the metal parts that were supposed…
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Completing the Set
Remember when you were a kid, playing with Legos? You could build tons of things with it – maybe. It depended on the size of…