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Will Carmakers Adopt TomTom’s IndiGO Open, Integrated Digital Cockpit Software Platform?
Perhaps you recognize the name TomTom. It’s a Dutch company, founded in 1991. The company’s original name was Palmtop Software, and the company specialized in…
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Stay Curious. Stay Humble. Stay Connected.
This is not my original first-of-the-year story for 2022. I wrote a different story about difficulties I had installing a specific manufacturer’s networked all-in-one printer…
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Welcome to a World of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Have you heard that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which produces globally applicable standards for Information and Communications Technology (ICT), recently launched a new…
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Good-For-Nothing Grammarians
As I discussed in my Its vs. It’s column, which appeared a couple of months ago here on EEJournal, one of my back-burner hobby projects…
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How the FPGA Came To Be, Part 5
As discussed in Parts 1 through 4 of this article series, the earliest PLDs evolved along easily traced genetic lines that started with Harris Semiconductor’s…
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When Reliability Analysis Meets Silicon Lifecycle Management
I’ve recently been chatting with folks from Synopsys and Concertio, and now my head is so full of “stuff” regarding things like hyper-convergent chip design,…
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How the FPGA came to be, Part 4
By the end of the 1970s, PALs had become the PLD (programmable logic device) of choice for system designers. They were an immensely successful product…
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How the FPGA Came To Be, Part 3
Part 2 of this article series discussed the development of the first successful programmable logic device, the Signetics 82S100 FPLA (field programmable logic array). A…
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Multifarious Multifaceted Memory Solutions for AI, ML, and DL
I recently had a very interesting chat with Steven Woo, who is a Fellow and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus. I’d like to kick off by…
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How the FPGA came to be, Part 2
Part 1 of this article series discussed the earliest programmable ICs that could be used to implement logic circuits. Not quite programmable logic, Harris Semiconductor’s…