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Whom Do You Trust?
I love all of the cool things that today’s incredible technologies make available to us. Take the internet, for example. I think it’s fair to…
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I Come to Bury the Internet, and to Praise It, Part 2
Six days after getting my new Internet service in Ivins, Utah, I managed to kill my Internet connection. I did it by unplugging the cable…
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BeBop RoboSkin Provides Tactile Awareness for Robots
I often think of a future that involves truly intelligent robots working alongside humans to make the world a better place for all of us.…
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I Come to Bury the Internet, and to Praise It, Part 1
I recently moved to Ivins, Utah. Go ahead. Try to find it on a map. It’s a suburb of a suburb of St. George, which…
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Are You Ready to Lay Your Hands on the World’s First Universal Processor?
One of the things I really enjoy is bacon sandwiches, but that’s not what I wanted to talk about here. Another thing I enjoy is…
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What? MORE 8-Bit Microcontrollers?
With all the talk about 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit processors that is constantly swirling around us, I’m not sure how many of today’s younger…
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Powering FPGAs is a Giant Hassle. Here’s Some Help.
When I first started working for an FPGA company a decade ago, I was stunned to find out how many power supply rails these parts…
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Reimagining How Humans Engage with Machines and Data
I was just chatting with the folks at Synaptics about their recently launched FlexSense family of teeny-tiny multi-modal smart sensor processors. Actually, I was thinking…
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Can HLS Partitioning Speed Up Placement and Routing of FPGA Designs? Yes, Oh Yes!
FPGA place-and-route software goes too fast, said no one ever. In fact, FPGA vendors have spent considerable effort in making their design software run faster…
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Autonomous John Deere Tractor Farms All Alone
When people talk of classic science fiction, there are several names that spring to mind, one being the English writer, artist, and anthology editor, Brian…