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Synopsys.ai debuts at SNUG 2023
Last week, Synopsys invited a handful of journalists and analysts to attend their annual SNUG (Synopsys Users’ Group) meeting for the first time in 30…
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Yes! On-Chip (FPGA, MCU, SoC) Generation of Post-Quantum Secure IDs and Keys
Just to keep things interesting, we’re going to come at things from a slightly different direction to my usual columns. First, I’m going to tell…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 2: Fairchild – The Big Engine that Couldn’t
No company was better equipped and better positioned to capitalize on the development of the first MOSFET than Fairchild Semiconductor. Founded in 1957 to work…
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Is This the Future of IoT Product Development?
Prototyping has certainly come a long way since I started my career back in those days of yore that we used to call the 1980s.…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 1: Early Visionaries
The first wave of semiconductor companies started in April 1952 when Bell Labs held its second transistor symposium for its transistor patent licensees, which was…
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Next-Gen AI Vision Processors Target Edge Applications
It’s been a long time coming, but I have to say that artificial intelligence (AI) is finally starting to make my life easier in meaningful…
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I hear you NOCing, But Can You Close Timing?
Network on Chip (NOC) IP has been around for a while. I wrote an article about academic research papers on NOCs presented at the seventh…
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The Transistor at 75: The First Makers, Part 7
When I wrote the initial six parts of this series on early transistor makers, I worked from a list of initial companies that made transistors…
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Intel’s Agilex 7 FPGAs Take Barcelona by Storm
As part of giving courses on digital logic simulation, along with presentations at technical conferences and guest lectures at universities, I’ve been fortunate enough to…
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Is the Future of AI Sparse?
I think we’re all familiar with the old riddle joke that starts with the question, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” and ends with…