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OMG! Where Are My Assets?
I am an outrageously lucky man. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit many countries and see many things. For example, I’ve given training courses in…
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New GUIs for Old Cars: Development Platforms for Manual and Autonomous Driving
If you love old cars, you know there’s an allure to their look but their sparse instrumentation leaves much to be desired and, of course,…
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Using ML to Mine Design Data to Speed and Improve SoC Designs
On the one hand, I’m tremendously excited and enthused by all of the amazing things I’m currently hearing regarding deployments of enterprise-level artificial intelligence (AI),…
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Building a Computer, Should You Inadvertently Travel Back in Time (Part 2)
In my previous column, I commenced the task of cogitating and ruminating on what I might do to put food on the table if I…
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Ray Holt and the CADC – The World’s First Military Digital Flight Computer
Ray Holt was a most unlikely candidate to develop a microprocessor chip set for the US Navy’s new F-14 variable-wing fighter jet. From an early…
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Building a Computer, Should You Inadvertently Travel Back in Time (Part 1)
I sometimes wonder if I spend too much time reading science fiction books. Similarly for watching science fiction films and TV series in general and…
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Is the Chip Shortage Getting Better? When and How Will it End?
Once upon a time, cigarette manufacturer Benson and Hedges introduced a 100mm tobacco cigarette. Not to be outdone, the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company created…
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Building Robots? Need a Place to Start? Try This FPGA-based SOM with Apps from AMD/Xilinx
Robots have captured our imagination ever since Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the word in his play titled “R.U.R” (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti or Rossum’s Universal…
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The Latest and Greatest in Secure Control FPGAs and FPGA-Based ORAN Solutions
I just turned 65 years old this past weekend. I find this fact hard to believe. Where did the time go? I don’t remember the…
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I Come to Bury the Internet, and to Praise It, Part 3
The first two parts of this article dealt with getting new Internet service from TDS Telecom at my new home near St. George, Utah. It…