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Shhh! Aspinity’s AML100 Analog AI Voice & Vibration IC is Listening!
Although the vast majority of people in the embedded and IoT industries are bouncing back and forth and jumping up and down singing the praises…
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Founding Stories of Famous Electronic Distributors, Part 1
Electronic distributors are the Rodney Dangerfields of the electronics industry. CEOs heading component vendors view them mostly as a necessary evil. Worst case, they’re viewed…
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Intel Announces World’s Fastest FPGAs with in-package HBM: The Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs
Intel has just introduced the Agilex M-Series FPGAs with support for PCIe Gen5, Optane persistent memory, CXL, and high-speed Ethernet. Some of the FPGAs in…
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Is This the Future of Embedded Systems and IoT Things?
I think I’ve just seen the future of embedded systems and the “things” that form the Internet of Things (IoT). From what I can tell,…
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Getting Ever Closer to Fully Autonomous Vehicles
When I was but a young whippersnapper, the idea of self-driving vehicles was the stuff of science fiction. Even though many Poohsticks have passed under…
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Happy 50th Birthday to the 8-bit Intel 8008 Microprocessor
Early microprocessors straddled two major computing epochs. During the first epoch, stretching from the late 1960s through the 1970s, computer system engineers designed and implemented…
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Brain Chips are Here!
I remember the heady thrill of the early 1980s when the unwashed masses (in the form of myself and my friends) first started to hear…
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Happy Birthday to Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore celebrated his 93rd birthday at the beginning of this year (January 3). Moore and seven co-conspirators including Robert Noyce, collectively dubbed the “Traitorous…
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Microchip tries to lure Xilinx Spartan-6 users with PolarFire, SmartFusion2, and IGLOO2
Last week, I wrote an article about Adam Taylor’s White Paper titled “Migrating Spartan 6 Design to 7 Series & Beyond.” In that White Paper,…
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Artix UltraScale+ (Xilinx) + XEM8320 (Opal Kelly) = SYZYGY’s Time to Shine
I have a tale to tell with so many fabulous facets that I’m hard pushed to know where to start. We could come at this…