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Something’s Coming but I Can’t Say What!
I just received an unusual briefing, and now I’m sitting here at the start of this column looking at a blank page thinking to myself,…
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Spartan-6 vs Spartan-7: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Xilinx announced the Spartan-6 FPGA family in 2009, based on a 45 nm IC process technology. Over time, the Spartan-6 LX family grew to encompass…
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Equipping Machines with Extrasensory Perception
I was just perusing and pondering the official definition of extrasensory perception (ESP). This is also referred to as the “sixth sense” based on the…
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Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Appears To Go All In On RISC-V
After CEO Patrick Gelsinger announced Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy, many people have said that Intel’s IFS announcement was like an…
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Verifying Cache and System Coherency in 21st Century Systems
In computing, the term “cache” refers to a hardware or software component that stores data in such a way that future requests for that data…
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The Story of the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Printer
This is the story of a printer. It’s a bad printer. It’s a very bad printer. It’s no good. It’s horrible. It’s terrible. It’s the…
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Are TOM Displays the Future of Consumer AR?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I think that one of the biggest game-changers heading our way is the combination of artificial…
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FPGAs vs ASICs: Choose Your Path Carefully
Ates Berna, General Manager and Managing Partner for ElectraIC in Istanbul, Turkey, recently posted a summary comparison chart showing the differences between FPGAs and ASICs…
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Keeping Autonomous Vehicles Out of the Ditch and on the Road
I have to say that I’m constantly surprised and impressed by the things the clever chaps and chapesses at MathWorks come up with. Just when…
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You Too Can Employ Robots to Suck the Souls Out of Your Customers, Just Ask McDonald’s
Thanks to COVID-19 and other factors, employee shortages now abound in every market, but perhaps no more so than in retail and restaurants, which are…