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Happy Independence Day
Happy Birthday, the United States of America. How does it feel to be 235? You really have done well since you took the training wheels…
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A 3-in-1 Gyroscope
[Editor’s note: this is the seventh and final in a series of articles derived from a session at this year’s ISSCC that focused on sensors…
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ARM Servers “Cloud” the Issue
Gather ’round, children, for the conclusion of our story on how ARM and x86 battled it out for global supremacy. Wielding PCs and servers as…
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From Little Cells Do Mighty Networks Grow?
Technology has had, for many years, a habit of giving with one hand and then biting you from behind. Take telephones: long ago you picked…
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Light Show
Way back in the 80s, I remember talking to someone about the delicacy of putting together the lens stack used to project the light that…
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Thinking Local
In those moments when we’re not frantically trying to keep up with all that keeps us awake at night, it’s easy to pine for a…
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How To Succeed in the MCU Business Without Really Trying
What does it take to be a successful microcontroller vendor? It’s a fair question—after all, big chip companies have billions of dollars riding on the…
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C to FPGA
The von Neumann architecture is a miracle of efficiency if you count the algorithmic complexity that can be completed by any given number of transistors. …
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An Escape from an Escape
Being out in the wild is supposed to get you away from things modern and technological. And yet… there are ways that new gadgetry might…