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JPL Software Update Rescues Failing Voyager 1 Spacecraft
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft exited the Solar System’s heliosphere and entered interstellar space on August 25, 2012, after a multi-decade journey. Four of the spacecraft’s…
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My AI Will Soon Be Watching You (Part 1)
Time is a funny old thing. On the one hand, we don’t even know what it is. On the other hand, we never seem to…
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Z80, Adieu
I’ve published several obituaries in EEJournal over the past few years, but this is my first such article for a microprocessor. After 48 years, Zilog…
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BYOD or BYOM to Synaptics’ AI-Native Edge Compute Party
I have two questions for you. First, what are the three key elements of any platform intended for the internet of things (IoT) and edge…
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Heads Up! Nova Explosion Heading Our Way
I love pretty much everything to do with space, especially the things we find in it, like galaxies, black holes, stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids,…
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The Adventures of CXL Across the 3rd Dimension
Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin: “May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the…
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LDRA’s New Security-First Capabilities Meet Missions to Mars and Colonies in Space
I don’t know about you, but I’m really starting to get excited about all the space-related activities that are going on at the moment. I…
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ST rolls a new FD-SOI microcontroller with phase-change memory (PCM) for automotive applications
Like a battered and bruised prizefighter, phase-change memory (PCM) refuses to stay down or give up the fight. Although it got a black eye and…
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A Brief and Personal History of EDA Part 8: The Big DA Era
For the last two decades or so, the EDA industry has grown at the same rate as the overall semiconductor industry. Mentor Graphics CEO Wally…
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Issuing a Challenge to Edge AI Processor Manufacturers
Recently (by which I mean over the course of the past year or two), with respect to artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge (where the…