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Breaking the System
It’s seductive logic. If the pieces are good, then the whole, which is but an assemblage of known-good pieces, must be good. I used that…
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Let’s Get Small
Last week saw the hale and hearty crew from Electronic Engineering Journal all in one place at Design West (née Embedded Systems Conference) in San…
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Solving the Big Secret
A few years ago, one FPGA vendor, Actel, was quietly shouting in the corner. “Hey! Single event upsets (SEUs) are a big problem for FPGAs!”…
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Oil and Water
Two years ago, a curious technology that had been under academic study for about 20 years for applications having nothing to do with semiconductors was…
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An App With Your Map?
For years, as technology has burgeoned, it has looked to traditional use models as a reference point. The idea is to keep things the way…
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Numbing It Down
CEVA recently announced the XC-4000 family, their next generation of DSP processors for software-defined radio implementations of communications functions (if I may make bold to…
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(Moore’s) Law of Diminishing Return
Following the semiconductor industry for the past few decades, we’ve seen something unprecedented in human history. There has been a sustained exponential growth that has…
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Basketball That Doesn’t Lead to the NBA
“Something’s clicking.” The robot has just been freed from its evening resting place, and they’re getting ready for some test runs and further development. As…
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The Return of Alchemy
Subtle definitions can make a difference. The old song title, “What Is This Thing Called Love” is a lot different than asking your spouse, “what…
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Back Seat Driving Innovation
Modern automobiles are miracles of engineering refinement. Probably no other technology-related product calls from as many disciplines, has endured the same level of long-term evolution,…