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So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur
“Think different,” says the popular ad slogan. Despite the poor grammar, it’s a good lesson for engineering startups. Becoming a techno-tycoon means suspending some of…
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Need to Cut Cost, Risk, Time?
Many project teams move from ASICs to FPGAs to avoid high NRE costs, and to reduce the risk of re-spin and shorten time-to-market. But while…
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Fusion Finds its Groove
Many times, we create a new technology with the knowledge that it has tremendous potential but without a clear idea of how it will ultimately…
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Library Science
ICs are made primarily with transistors, adorned here and there with the odd resistor or capacitor. The intentional ones, that is. Yes, the parasitics are…
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Clash of the Tiny Titans
For those of you old enough to remember, “Let’s get small” was a line that got big laughs. Nowadays it’s a serious business plan. Small,…
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The Presence of Giants
American Football has the Super Bowl – but that just honors the best team for a single year. Baseball – the “world” series – but…
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Does Noise Analysis Accuracy Really Matter?
There have been a lot of new faces springing up in the timing and signal integrity (SI) analysis market over the past few years, and…
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More Than A Zen Thing
If a bug exists in a design and nobody notices, it is still a bug? This question is more than just a play on the…
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How Many Different Ways Can You Be Positive?
One of the interesting things about the current economic situation (crisis, downturn, reset – put your chosen word in here) is how different companies all…
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Chef’s Menu
For many of us, ordering the exact FPGA tools that we need to do our job has been frustrating at times: “We’d like to start…