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Dealing with Duality
“What are you thinking about, honey?” His mind raced for an appropriate answer. “You look like you’re somewhere far away,” she continued. He avoided the…
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Learn to Design at MachXO2 Speed!
The MachXO2 family of programmable logic devices is optimized for low density applications, with an unprecedented mix of low cost, low power and high system…
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Attack on Many Fronts
The name “Silicon Valley” is, to some extent, a reminder of a glory age, when the perfect confluence of innovative minds and a couple of…
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Software Thermal Management with TI OMAP Processors
TI OMAP applications processors are powerful and flexible; this makes them well suited for navigating difficult power and thermal constraints. However, the complexity of OMAP…
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Pick a Cell
Just over a year ago I reported on femtocells, (From Little Cells Do Mighty Networks Grow?). In the article I explained that femtocells were low-power…
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When The Bottom Drops Out
It’s always exciting at the cutting edge. Here at EE Journal, we are always having fun learning about and bringing you news about the latest,…
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Images and Gestures
Ambitious ideas about the blossoming sensor opportunities boil down to two things: Gather data. Lots of data. Make sense out of that data, which means…
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Tackling the Hard Part
As multicore works its way into the embedded world, there are lots of things that used to be simple that become more complex, both in…
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Towards Silicon Convergence
We have often discussed the many ramifications of Moore’s Law in these pages. Of course, chips continue to get exponentially cheaper, faster, more capable, and…
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Achieving Exa-Scale
Computers use a lot of power. Big, fast computers use a ton of power. And rooms full of big, fast computers use… well… lots of…