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The Dichotomy Of Power
In my Fish Fry this week, I try to unravel the “aloha” of electronic engineering terminology; what we can do to make more power, use less…
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Building a Better Bridge To Tomorrow
In my Fish Fry this week, I debate the nature of multi-core and examine some new standards that will hopefully make multi-core implementation easier in the…
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Multicore Plus Optimized Packet Processing Software
We used to talk about POTS, or the Plain Old Telephone Service, whose only service was basic dial tone, whether the original analog or newer…
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Xilinx Zynq Zigs, Zags, and Zooms
Crank up Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. Cue monkeys dancing around the black obelisk. Throw a bone in the air and shout at the sky.…
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Minding Your Peas and Queues
In many primary school cafeterias, they serve students out of plates or trays with little sub-divisions for each part of the meal – a big…
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Another Excuse Gone
Nobody wants to wait these days. Unless it’s a surprise moment in a thrilling movie, we want it now. Didn’t you get my tweet? You…
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Can Engineers Change the World?
The story is often told, by both participants, that when Steve Jobs recruited John Scully from Pepsi to Apple he asked if he wanted to…
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Robots With a Sweet Tooth
You know a company is making a success of something when their name becomes used as a general term. Google is now a verb, and…