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Say Happy 50th Birthday to the Microprocessor, Part I
The same year that I began my quest for a BSEE at Case Western Reserve University in 1971, someone posted a photocopy of a groundbreaking…
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Using Machine Learning to Optimize FPGA Layout and Timing
As usual, I’m amazed by how fast and how far things have changed in my own lifetime. When I started my career in electronics and…
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Tortuously Topological Toroidal Transformations (a.k.a. Donut Math)
For reasons that will be revealed in the fullness of time, I’m wrestling with a passel of perplexing posers revolving around the math associated with…
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Book Review: Designing Electronics that Work
Back in the day, 60 years ago, I built a lot of Heathkit test equipment including two oscilloscopes, two analog multimeters, an audio signal generator,…
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MathWorks’s Satellite Communications Toolbox is Out of This World!
If you had asked me about the folks at MathWorks a few days ago, I might have waffled on about all of the traditional stuff…
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If You Thought Bitcoin was Bad, Wait Till You Get a Load of NFTs
I needed to get my wife a present for her recent birthday. What do you get for someone who says she doesn’t really want anything?…
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Intel Welcomes You to the Angstrom Era
Intel took a lot of flak when it announced new names for its future semiconductor process nodes during the Intel Accelerated event in Late July.…
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IOTech and Lotus Labs Deliver AI and Visual Inferencing at the IoT Edge
“Oh, my giddy aunt!” I find it hard to believe that the last time I wrote about IOTech here on EEJournal was in “the before…
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Am I Going SMAD?
Do you recall the 1963 American comedy film — It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — starring Spencer Tracy accompanied by an all-star cast…
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Danger: UXC – These Seven Perils Including Exploding Capacitors Can Kill Your Power Supplies
A wonderful British ITV television series made in 1979 called “Danger: UXB” depicted the hazardous adventures of a fictitious Royal Engineer tunneling company as it…