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A Dinosaur is Leaving Footprints in Your Smartphone
The old playground joke was, “How do you know when an elephant is in your refrigerator?” Answer: “Footprints in the butter.” Now British company, eoSemi,…
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Staring Down Giants
It takes a lot of guts to go head to head with an established industry leader. It takes even more guts to go up against…
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Sensor Chemistry
Chemistry – at least at the high-school level – can be fun stuff. You’ve got these fundamental entities called atoms that can come together in…
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SCR based on-chip ESD protection for LNA’s in 40nm CMOS
The number of wireless enabled systems is very diverse and steadily growing. System makers include wireless functions into mature applications like fixed-line telephones and TV’s,…
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Move Over, R2-D2 Is Driving
What a long strange trip it’s going to be. The State of Nevada has just given official approval for autonomous self-driving cars. As if visiting…
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New Dimension in Chips
3D is one of the hottest buzzwords these days. Every marketeer worth his salt is trying to find a way for the next “new thing”…
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The End of Seeing Is Believing
IC patterning is becoming harder and harder to visualize. And I mean that quite literally. When you glaze pottery, you apply some chemical that likely…
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Divide (and Conquer) by Zero
Just when you think ARM can’t sink any lower, they do this. I mean that in a good way. ARM – effectively the world’s largest…
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Envisioning the Future
Last summer, we published an article welcoming the Embedded Vision Alliance to the world. With the incredible processing power available today – particularly when you…