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Tough Times Ahead for AMD
Poor AMD: Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. The company best known as “that other PC chipmaker” and the firm that serves as a big…
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Moore for the Masses
Programmable logic devices such as FPGAs are bigger beneficiaries of Moore’s law than perhaps any other class of semiconductor device. One could, of course, argue…
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Magic Mushrooms
Gardens are where your average Joe and Mother Nature can collaborate. (That is, “garden” in the American sense, not necessarily the British sense, which Americans…
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A Design Methodology for Building Process-Independent Hardmacro IP
Rapidly migrating intellectual property (IP) from one foundry to another and from one process node to the next can be a challenging, but necessary, part…
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It Has to Get Better
Yawn! Another boring year of exponential improvement in capability, cost, and power consumption. Bo-o-oring. When will something truly exciting happen in electronics? It’s just the…
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Don’t Be Evil
Google’s corporate mission statement famously includes the directive, “Don’t be evil.” We could quibble about whether the company has already violated that commandment, but for…
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A Tweak of the Ears
You’re sitting in your living room reading a book. Your ears are “on” and working, of course, but you’re not really using them. You’ll perk…
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Touched
We’ve talked about touch technology here before, both in the context of touch controllers and stylus technology. But those don’t even begin to cover the…
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Santa’s Been Good to Embedded Developers
This year has been a good one for embedded hardware engineers. There have been a ton of new chips, for starters. I mean, a ton—a…
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Understanding the 99%
I’m going to throw a hypothesis out there: In any large engineering team, 99% of the work is done by 1% of the engineers. There,…