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Benefits and Tradeoffs of EDA in the Clouds
Only a few weeks after Motorola® launched the XoomTM, Apple® launched the iPad 2TM. These technological marvels, like their predecessors, illustrate several fundamental challenges that…
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From Concept to Code
Math is beautiful. It is likely that mathematics is the closest thing we have to Pure Truth. Math has no moods, no bias, no political…
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You Got It
Security is an arms race. The good guys come up with new ways to hide data and the bad guys eventually find ways to break…
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Reaching for the Cloud
For once, those clouds on the horizon aren’t harbingers of doom. At least, we don’t think so. In fact, they’re almost tantalizing. Everyone is looking…
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Connecting the Dots
Dot-to-dots are a fundamental part of American kiddie culture. Maybe it’s universal; I don’t want to speak to things I know nothing about… (much). But…
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Exposing your Multicores
I am writing while a carpenter is putting up some shelves. When he arrived, in addition to bringing in a huge pile of fresh timber,…
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Shanghaied in Sydney
No one has ever made the mistake of calling Altium “timid.” As long as they’ve been in business, the company co-founded by Nick Martin has…
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Does the EDA Business Have a Future?
The late and very greatly missed Douglas Adams once wrote: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything…
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A Wind Sensor
[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles derived from a session at this year’s ISSCC that focused on sensors and energy…
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Secure Foundations
In a world where attacks on electronic systems can be conducted remotely, security is a vital component of system design. Even systems that do not…