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Can You Hear Me Now (With My 21st Century Studio-Quality MEMS Microphone)?
In England in 1969, what’s now known as British Telecom (BT) didn’t exist. In those days of yore, UK telecommunications (including telephones, exchanges, wiring, and…
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How to Stop Bad Actors Reverse Engineering Your ASICs/SoCs and FPGAs
Bad actors aren’t just reverse-engineering software; they’re tearing into the silicon itself. From peeling ASICs/SoCs like onions to extracting FPGA bitstreams, the hardware battlefield is…
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Meet the Power-Delivery Chiplets That May Save 50% of Your AI Power
If you’d tried to start a power-related conversation with me just a few short years ago, I’d probably have shrugged my shoulders in disinterest. These…
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AI at the Edge? Meet Wi-Fi in Microwatts
I’ve just been introduced to a technology that has the potential to revolutionize battery- and ambient-powered AI-enabled sensors using Bluetooth or WiFi while consuming only…
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Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber?
Increasingly, I find myself talking to people who say something like, “We have a 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-core proof-of-concept AI chip that can—in the…
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Ray Holt, inventor of the first microprocessor chip set, needs our help.
Ray Holt, inventor of the first microprocessor chip set, which was used as the digital flight computer in the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat fighter jet,…
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Analog Neuromorphic Processors for ASICs/SoCs Offer Microwatt Edge AI
We live in exciting times with respect to AI and the devices used to implement inferencing at the edge, where the “internet rubber” meets the…
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Want Nano-Scale, CMOS-Based MEMS Sensors?
We’re talking about CMOS-based MEMS sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than their traditional silicon-based MEMS counterparts, offering greater bandwidth and higher sensitivity, while also…
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Micro-Miniature Ethernet Switches and Routers
In a moment, I’m going to tell you about the slightest and slimmest Ethernet switches and routers you’ve never seen, but first… I’ve told this…
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Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI?
Way back in the mists of time, in those halcyon days we used to call 2010, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak…