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Sensors in Windows
They were late to the party, but they seem to be deciding the menu. Phones and tablets have accelerated the use of sensors dramatically, pioneered…
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Letting Process Drive MEMS Design
MEMS is 20 years behind ICs. So says MEMS consultant Alissa Fitzgerald of AMFitzgerald. A lot can happen in 20 years – and it could…
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Go Big or Go Home
Citius, altius, fortius. That’s Latin, y’all, for “faster, higher, stronger.” The mathletes among you may also recognize it as the motto of the modern Olympic…
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Staying Ahead of the Curve
Verification and test have always faced a tricky paradox: How do you build equipment to test and verify the biggest, fastest devices ever created? After…
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Taming IP Test Interconnect
The military has dealt with this for years. And first responders ran headlong into the issue with 9/11. You have a localized entity – a…
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With a Wave of My Hand
Touch-screen interfaces are so last week. If you really want to impress your friends, your boss, or your fellow engineers, what you really want is…
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So Long and Thanks For All The Glue Logic
25 years ago FPGAs were the latest and greatest new thing. They were, by replacing glue logic, going to speed up the design of systems,…
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Tackling MEMS Measurement Inaccuracies
It’s said that the best way to learn something really well is to teach it to someone else. A close corollary to that would be…
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Does “Open” Foster Innovation?
TSMC held their Open Innovation Platform (OIP) event not long ago. One of the keynote speakers was ARM’s Simon Segars, and he spoke about the…
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Imagine There’s No MIPS
It’s the circle of life. The great wheel of existence. One door closes; another opens. The end of a chapter, the beginning of another. Pick…