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The Microsoft-alypse
It was the Surface announcement that finally did it for me. A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced its intention to make cool new tablet computers,…
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No Room for Error: Creating Highly Reliable, High-Availability FPGA Designs
Designers of FPGAs for military and aerospace applications need to increase the reliability and availability of their designs. This is particularly true in the case…
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Does the World Need a New Programming Language?
The linear execution of a program by a processor is unnatural. It was the way in which the first computers of von Neumann and Turing…
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Livin’ on the Edge
Xilinx has announced that they are now shipping the first members of the new 28nm, low-cost, Artix family, rounding out the lineup of three 28nm…
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Living In the Shadows
It’s funny… You’d think that, with touchscreens now in the hands of so many consumers, touch technology has to be a done deal. Moving on…
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Does Hardware Multi-threading Belong in Embedded CPU’s?
Synthesizable embedded microprocessors surpassed stand-alone conventional CPU’s in unit volumes several years ago, and are beginning to catch up to them in performance and feature…
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Software That Can Kill
I had intended to write about automotive matters today, but instead my eye was caught by a link on The Risks Digest: “Software Failures Responsible…
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WaterFail
Just over a decade ago, 17 frustrated software engineers made a pilgrimage to the top of a mountain in Utah. (OK, they really just went…
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Beyond Free Space
Light has always been a finicky physical phenomenon. It seems all straightforward until you get to high school and learn about how Einstein burst our…
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Hot Links
This topic was going to be a blog post, but, when the dust settled, it got turned into an article (as you can see by…