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  • Java Earning Its Wings

    Java Earning Its Wings

    It happened just like that. In the middle of a conversation, he got a kind of misty look in his eyes, like something wasn’t quite…

  • Attacking Abuses of Power

    Attacking Abuses of Power

    A few weeks ago, we started looking at ways of reducing power consumption when designing SoCs. We divided the world into the front-end, where the…

  • Methods for Reducing Marketing Jitter Through Filtering of Marketing Noise in Conference Presentations

    Methods for Reducing Marketing Jitter Through Filtering of Marketing Noise in Conference Presentations

    Related Applications None Field of the Invention Way out in left field. Background of the Invention For purposes of gathering together for reasons including but…

  • Methods for Reducing Marketing Jitter Through Filtering of Marketing Noise in Conference Presentations

    Methods for Reducing Marketing Jitter Through Filtering of Marketing Noise in Conference Presentations

    Related Applications None Field of the Invention Way out in left field. Background of the Invention For purposes of gathering together for reasons including but…

  • Tools and Transceivers

    Tools and Transceivers

    In the old days, we had only two kinds of FPGA – small and smaller, also known as slow and slower, or hot and hotter… …

  • As Easy As Pie

    As Easy As Pie

    ANNOUNCER: It’s spring, the harvest is and holidays are behind us, and the apples in cold storage are starting to age. Someone needs to come…

  • MIPS Moves on Multi-Core

    MIPS Moves on Multi-Core

    At first, the concept of “multi-core” from a processor IP company might seem a bit confusing.  Couldn’t we already put multiple MIPS cores on our…

  • Bigger and Better Storage

    Bigger and Better Storage

    Last week’s ISSCC and DesignCon conferences included presentations of developments in non-volatile memory, and we present some highlights here. Some of the papers discussed developments…

  • ISSCC Processor Fest

    ISSCC Processor Fest

    There are some places it seems everyone wants to be. The Oscars. An inaugural ball. Mardi Gras. New Years in Times Square. (OK, pre-War on…

  • Synthesis Flows Back to the Sea

    Synthesis Flows Back to the Sea

    The sun’s rays beat down on the sea, vaporizing seawater and lifting molecules into the sky.  Adiabatic processes work their magic, and soon tiny bits…