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Code Like an Entrepreneur
“So there I was, at 30 thousand feet…” We’ve all told stories that started like that, even if we were never WWII bomber pilots. Every…
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Technocalypse!
We knew this was coming all along. From Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” to Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”, to James Cameron’s “The Terminator” – our science fiction…
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In Search of MEMS Standards
“MEMS is in need of standards.” I’ve heard that declaration many times over the last few months. But just try to search the Internet for…
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Happy Birthday, Opportunity
It is now nine years since Opportunity bounced onto the surface of Mars, with a projected mission life of 90 Mars days. (A Mars day,…
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Occupy FPGA
It’s freezing outside, but we are determined. We’ve got our sleeping bags, our unshaven faces, and our steely determination. We are occupying FPGA and demanding…
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The Shoe Finally Drops
This was no mystery match-up. People have been asking the question for a long time and only recently got their answer: When is Synopsys going…
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Emulation Urge?
It has been widely documented that the complexity of system-on-chip (SoC) designs is increasing exponentially, with most SoCs now including multi-threaded processors and many memories…
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U.S. Attacks Java
“Unless it is absolutely necessary to run Java in web browsers, disable it.” That’s the word from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency…
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A Crossroads of Vision
Altium has long been a standout in the EDA industry. The company got its start as Protel – a supplier of affordable desktop PCB layout…
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A Synthetic Gyroscope
I have a theory about people. They can be over-simplistically divided into two groups that I refer to as “differentiators” and “integrators.” This comes from…