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AMD Rolls Out the Big Iron
True to my word, I’m highlighting a handful of x86 processors this week. Well, maybe “handful” isn’t appropriate; more like a bushel full. These things…
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Ahead by a Node
Let’s just get one thing out of the way before we talk about GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ new 14XM process. In electronics, almost nothing is actually what it…
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Minimizing Idle Time
Any of you that are as much a fan of a good roadtrip as I am will have stopped off at more than your fair…
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Freescale In Your Smart Meter
There’s a building out back behind where I live that has an electric meter on it. While that’s not unusual, what is different about it…
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The Secret Ingredient
We’ve talked a lot about the awesome combination of ARM-based processors with FPGA fabric in these pages. The power of a state-of-the-art dual-core ARM matched…
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A Humble Christmas Wish
It’s mid-December, and in journalistic circles, that means it’s time for the year-end wrap-up article filled with enticing prognostications for the upcoming year. Or we…
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There’s a New Transistor in Town
By all accounts, the jury has heard the evidence, deliberated, and rendered a verdict: the future is FinFETs. Despite some other folks still trying to…
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How to Close Timing with Hundreds of Multi-Mode/Multi-Corner Views
In the last decade we have seen the process of timing signoff become increasingly complex. Initial timing analyses at larger process nodes such as 180nm…
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The Industry Locksmith
When we are worried about our security at home, we usually call a locksmith – a security expert that can analyze our defenses, weigh them…
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ARTEMIS
It is sometimes a source of wonder how acronyms are created. ARTEMIS, the European programme to promote embedded systems, was formed from Advanced Research and…