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What “Is” Is
We’ve created a special domain for legal issues in this country. If it looks like a lawyer might have to get involved, the rest of…
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(un)Rolling with the Times
A HW engineer and an embedded SW developer, who are slated to work together on a common project, strike up a conversation at the proverbial…
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Lessons from Fukushima
In August a group of experts on risk, safety engineering, and related matters looked at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station disaster to see what…
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Faster Floating-Point
We’ve done dozens of articles about how awesome FPGAs are for signal processing applications – with a measure of salt. We’ve pointed and laughed as…
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Minding the Gap
Assumptions are always dangerous, but there’s one reasonably safe assumption you can make about our IC-related topics: the underlying material is most likely silicon. Silicon…
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Anatomy of a Software Code Audit Process
Software has become a major component of products that are produced by most technology companies and is rarely written from scratch. Resourceful software development organizations…
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Not Much New Under the Sun
These are not the times for DIY or NIH if you can help it. More and more is expected of fewer and fewer people, so…
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When Programmers Rule the World
“Their talents did not quite run to scholarship.” This was Susanna Clarke’s polite way of describing a pack of idiots. Or more charitably, people who…