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Unconventional Touch
Funny how we have dual expectations when it comes to our hands. Give us a workshop and some tools, and we’ll craft a finely-honed wooden…
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A Mark on the Bench
Writing benchmarks is a lonely endeavor. It’s kind of like being a referee or an umpire. Everybody wants a good and fair benchmark, but “good”…
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Going Mobile with Solar
Batteries are the bane of portable device design. Just about every portable or mobile device or system that does anything interesting – that is, anything…
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MRAM Momentum
IEDM happened last month. If you haven’t been there, it’s the go-to place for the most detailed work done on the most advanced and obscure…
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Beyond Physical: Solving High-end FPGA Design Challenges
The advantages of using programmable logic to get electronic products to market quickly with less risk and cost are well known and recent market drivers…
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Fast, Efficient RTL Debug for Programmable Logic Designs
In a typical FPGA design flow, most designers work from a written specification that contains architectural level drawings defining the major logic blocks, interfaces, and…
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The Great Divide: Why Next-Generation FPGA Designs will be Hierarchical and Team-Based
As field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have grown in capacity, complexity and performance, their associated design and verification tools, infrastructures and methodologies have struggled to keep up.…
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Degenerates
“I need a brush.” What would you do given such instruction by someone to whom the response, “Can you be more specific, please?” would be…
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Economics 201
Three thousand dollars is lot to pay for a radio. A friend of mine recently bought herself a nice new car. Not Rolls-Royce or Ferrari…
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Looking Right Back At You
It was an awesome year here at EE Journal. Technology continued to evolve at a breakneck pace, and the EE Journal editorial team continued to…