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The Semiconductor Company from Another World: The Siliconix Story, Part 2 – Starting the Optical Encoder Industry
Bill Hugle and Frances Sarnat married in 1947 after each had earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Chicago. The two started…
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Using Generative AI for Refactoring and Debugging Code Cuts Debugging Time in Half!
I am currently wearing my patent-pending puzzled and perplexed expression. This manly mien was handed down to me by my father when he determined he…
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The Semiconductor Company That Came From Another World: the Siliconix Story, Part 1 – Starting With Star Sapphires
Starting in the 1940s, Bill Hugle and Frances Sarnat Hugle founded technology companies that drew them further and further into the semiconductor business. Together they…
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MathWorks Meets the Cobot Cohort from Universal Robots
Is it just me, or is everyone fascinated by the idea of humanoid robots in general and intelligent humanoid robots in particular? Just saying this…
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Agile Analog Makes the Analog Parts of SoC Design Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
I sometimes joke that I’d bend over backwards to be flexible and that I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous (I didn’t say they…
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Intel’s latest version of oneAPI takes advantage of new Intel Xeon improvements, supports AMD and Nvidia
In its quest to make oneAPI a viable alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA for parallel-processing software development, Intel has released the 2023.1 version of its oneAPI…
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Join the Innovation Revolution with NextFlex and Manufacturing USA!
I have to say that I’m flabbergasted. In fact, I don’t think it would be unfair to say that rarely has my flabber been quite…
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Flex Logix configurable hardware IP for AI and DSP workloads fuses FPGAs, tensor units, and software
Today, we’re going to talk about AI, DSP, FPGAs, IP, and SoCs. Normally, these things don’t all go together. Certainly, FPGAs have been used to…
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xMEMS Labs Aims to Replace Earbud and Hearing Aid Audio Drivers with Semiconductor Speakers
The semiconductor story is the story of constant replacement. Early transistors increasingly replaced vacuum tubes. Integrated circuits (ICs) replaced transistors. Our large-screen, flat-panel displays and…
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Metaspectral Takes AI Processing of Hyperspectral Imaging by Storm
Do you know any jokes suitable for young kids? The reason I ask is that there are three girls aged 8, 7, and 3 living…