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Simplifying Storage
I was one of the early adopters of home theater PCs. Before the concept was widespread, I had assembled a PC with an HDTV card,…
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Expanding IP Horizons
Bricks and Mortar acquisitions are simple to conceptualize. When Ford buys a smaller car company, we assume that the other company will carry on producing…
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Battery-Powered Proof
FPGAs are power-hungry monsters, right? We all learned this ten years ago, and un-learning it sometimes seems beyond the capabilities of the electronic design community. …
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Mediocre Embedded Systems?
“Over the last twenty five years, the general public have become self-conditioned to accept mediocrity in software-based electronic systems.” Christopher Smith, VP of Marketing at…
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Auto Market Assault
With today’s automobiles acting as mass-produced rolling showcases of electronic technology, winning sockets in automotive electronics applications has become a major goal of just about…
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Modelling From the Belly of the Whale
IBM has announced that, subject to the usual legal caveats, it is buying Telelogic, the Swedish-based system development tools company. IBM’s Rational Software operation, where…
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Design Tool Evolution
It’s no accident that PCB design was one of the first electronics design tasks to which computer technology was applied in an effort to automate…
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Surveillance Silicon
These days, a number of companies are ferociously burning venture capital in order to develop new programmable architectures that offer a better tradeoff in the…
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Lessons from a LinuxWorld
Last week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, we saw the expected contingent of server and IT technology. If you’re stacking lots of blades into a…
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Nailing Jell-O to a Wall
Oddly, the engineering director didn’t seem as impressed as he should have been. Perhaps he couldn’t see how well the software project was going already? …