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Will the Renesas RZ/V2H MPU Dominate Embedded AI Vision Applications?
I grew up in the age of 8-bit microprocessor units (MPUs). Consider the MOS Technology 6502, which was introduced in 1975, for example. This was…
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A Brief and Personal History of EDA, Part 2: Calma, Applicon, Computervision, and the CAD Era
Commercial EDA companies started to appear in the 1960s, and a trend of sorts was set. In each new, more advanced generation of EDA tools,…
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Controlling the World with Raspberry Pi
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but on the off chance you’ve forgotten, I graduated from university in 1980. My degree was in Control Engineering.…
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A Brief and Personal History of EDA, Part 1: DAC and the Big Bang
I can tell you from the start, it’s impossible to capture a comprehensive history of the EDA industry in a few articles. However, I can’t…
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A Brave New World of Emulation and Software Prototyping
Like so many of the technologies we take for granted today, I managed to find myself embroiled in the very early days of hardware emulation.…
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Intuitive Machines sticks its moon landing (mostly), with emergency help from two on-board FPGAs
“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,” a Hugo-award-winning SF novel published by Robert Heinlein in 1966, is an apt title that explains why so many…
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Reimagining Radar in the Form of High-Resolution 4D Sensing Systems
I know lots of engineers who could engineer me under the table, as it were. Hmmm, sometimes I read what I just wrote, and I…
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Is It Time for MRAM to Shine?
I hail from a time when we could do naught but dream of computer memories with the capacity and performance of today’s offerings. On the…
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HP Inc tries to brick my wife’s printer. CEO approves and calls people like me “bad customers” on CNBC.
Last October, HP Inc issued an over-the-air firmware update to its printers that contained a Trojan Horse of the company’s own making. The update conned…
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Rambus’s RAMPART Will Rout Rowhammer
I’ve just been introduced to a solution to a computer memory problem I didn’t even know existed. To be honest, I think I was happier…