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Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux
I remember “ye olden days” when we (humans) designed electronic products by hand—conceiving circuits, selecting components, drawing schematics, laying out printed circuit boards (PCBs)… Can…
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From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation
In the context of programming, the term “obfuscation” is typically taken to mean “deliberately making source code hard to read or understand while keeping it…
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Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development
As I’ve mentioned on occasion, my degree is in Control Engineering. Well, that’s what we used to call it deep in the mists of time…
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Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge?
We live in exciting times. Sometimes I’m unsure just how much more excitement I can take. I can imagine one day talking to my grandchildren,…
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Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take
In which we learn about a maverick founder’s RISC-V crusade to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience. I’ve known Jonah McLeod for more…
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Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll doubtless say it again—I’m constantly amazed by how the metaphysical theme of the “interrelatedness of all things” that permeates…
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Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge
I’m having “one of those days.” During a recent chat with someone who has a lot to answer for, I was informed that IREE is…
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Lies, Damn Lies, Benchmarks and ML Perf Auto?
MLCommons, in collaboration with AVCC, the Autonomous Vehicle Compute Consortium, recently released the ML Perf Auto 0.5. benchmark suite. The suite is intended to compare…
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Polish Logic Meets Silicon Magic: Say Hi to Grinn’s GenioSOM-700
The purpose of this column is to waffle (as is my wont) about some super System-on-Module (SOM) units that recently leaped onto the center of…
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Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront
Hold onto your hippocampus because the latest neuromorphic marvels are firing on all synapses. To ensure we’re all tap-dancing to the same skirl of the…