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Good Vibrations
[Editor’s note: this is the sixth in a series of articles derived from a session at this year’s ISSCC that focused on sensors and energy…
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Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss
When is a PC not a PC? That’s a trick question. To most of us, a PC means an Intel-based machine running some version of…
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Integrating Hardies and Softies
Winston Churchill once said that the United Kingdom and the United States are two nations divided by a single language. Sometimes it seems like that…
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Coping with the College Crisis
Engineering is a profession of perpetual education. Graduating from a modern engineering school is, at best, a license to learn. With the pace of technology…
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Creating a Virtual Factory
We in the semiconductor world live in a relatively self-contained environment. Processing is highly specialized, equipment is expensive and not really usable for anything else,…
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Altera’s 28-nm FPGAs Optimized for Broadcast Video Applications
Increasing industry demand to deliver HD video channels requires studio equipment providers to deliver integrated products that provide the required bandwidth and processing power, while…
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Free As In Beer
One of the great charms of open-source software is that it’s free. Sort of. As any real (read: employed) programmer working with open-source software can…
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DAC, Death, and the Future
This year’s Design Automation Conference in San Diego was, as has become tradition, kicked off by Gary Smith’s presentation on the state of the EDA…