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The Whole Wide World
We often talk about your FPGA projects in these pages as if they were your whole universe. We know they’re not. Most often, your FPGA…
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Embedded Vision
Systems are becoming more and more human. We are gradually endowing them with the ability to do some of what we do so that we…
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ARM Goes Big… and Little
Another day, another ARM encroachment into nontraditional markets. Last week ARM announced yet another addition to its dizzying array of licensed hardware IP, this time…
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Analog-to-Digital-to-FPGA Gets a Boost
We’ve yammered on a lot in these pages about how these newfangled FPGA whipper-snapper chips are neater’n dirt when it comes to crankin’ out a…
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Did the Paradigm Shift for You?
At one time, every new product announcement was said to mark a paradigm shift in the industry. Thankfully, it is no longer the case that…
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Intel Offers Embedded Processor… Sort Of
Since Intel produces only about 2% of the world’s processor chips, that leaves an awfully big 98% market share for everyone else. But for the…
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To Microsemi and Actel – an SoC
Why do companies buy other companies? In one case, I was told, it was because a very large multi-national organisation had an M&A (Mergers and…
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Skating, As Sensors Might See It
I recently had a conversation where it was noted that navigation is possible using only an accelerometer, since turns register as acceleration in the lateral…
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Your Basic $99 Supercomputer
What do you get when you combine a floating-point processor with a mesh network? The Adapteva Epiphany-IV microprocessor, apparently. This Boston-based startup composed of four…
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Imagine
John Lennon famously exhorted us to “imagine” a world with an alternative set of assumptions. It’s an exercise worth doing. We trudge along day-to-day with…