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He Sees You When You’re Sleeping…
Evil geniuses and aspiring global overlords, your prayers have been answered. It’s now easier and cheaper than ever to keep tabs on your legions of…
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FPGA Reliability and the Sunspot Cycle (REVISED)
Engineers design for system-level reliability when creating complex electronic systems. System reliability is dependent on a number of factors, including the reliability of the individual…
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A Validated Methodology for Designing Safe Industrial Systems on a Chip (REVISED)
This white paper explores an industrial system on a chip (SoC) to explain how engineers can save up to 18 months of design time in…
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Happy 1000 Anniversary To Us!
It was early October 2003. The internet bubble had just burst. The ink on Techfocus Media’s incorporation papers was barely dry, and the virtual printing…
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Off Script
At times it’s seemed a sotto-voce religious war. One side says that a clean user interface aids productivity. The other side says that, well, quite…
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A Little Extra Power on the Side
It was a bit after 5, right around time to go home. Which, of course, has nothing to do with the time when people actually…
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What the Heck is FEC?
When you think about it, simulating your FPGA is a lot like exercising on a treadmill. You do both of them because you want to…
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Patent Language Serves Its Nefarious Purpose
Bryon Moyer wrote about inscrutable patent language here, and, a few weeks earlier, Kevin Morris wrote about lawyers here. Both gentlemen are correct, of course,…