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ChatGPT will not replace me – yet
An EEJournal reader recently suggested, eagerly I might add, that ChatGPT can already replace me. This statement was made even before OpenAI announced ChatGPT 4o.…
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Building A Semiconductor Fab? I Have Awesome News (Exclamation Mark)
I’ve been informed by the punctuation police that I am no longer allowed to employ exclamation marks in my column titles. That’s like asking me…
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Awesome Retro Displays and Computers
In retrospect, it’s been a funny old day with respect to retro displays and computers, starting with Numitron tubes (which use seven incandescent filaments arranged…
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Old Electronics Terms Show Language Drift Over the Decades
A recent video appearing on Laurence Brown’s “Lost in the Pond” YouTube channel discusses six English words brought to America in the 1600s, during its…
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A Brief History of PCBs: Where did printed circuit boards come from?
While writing my recent 8-part EDA history (listed below), I became acutely aware that most of the effort devoted to EDA tool development has been…
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Lynn Conway, 1938-2024: The Computer Architect Who Helped to Revolutionize Digital IC Design
Lynn Conway is best known for her collaboration with Carver Mead that resulted in the Mead-Conway design methodology for VLSI chip design, which triggered a…
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Who Invented the Johnson Decade Counter (and Why)?
I love digital logic. I love solving digital logic conundrums. And I especially love discovering interesting and unusual ways of doing things while also learning…
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O-M-G! 100 More Captivating Columns
I simply cannot believe that I recently penned and posted my three hundredth column here at EEJournal. I think my columns average out at around…
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Will PCMO bring the magic to memristor memory?
Memory has always been a fundamental challenge for the design of digital computers. The quest for the perfect digital storage medium started as soon as…
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University Degrees in Generative AI Prompt Engineering (Mind Blown!)
I rarely publish press releases. To be honest, I rarely even read them. Every now and then, however, something piques my interest enough for me…