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To Get a Good Job, Talk Posh, Not Sheffield Tyke!
In previous columns, I’ve made mention of the fact that my mother is prone to grabbing the conversational reins with gusto and abandon (and, it…
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FPGAs: Made in China
It all started with a post from one of my LinkedIn connections, Tim Davis: “It seems like the golden age of the pure FPGA is…
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It’s Time to Get Toit!
I was just chatting with the guys and gals at Toit, which is a rather interesting company that’s based in Denmark. These clever little scamps…
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11 Reasons You Should NOT use an FPGA for a Design, and Four Reasons You Should
We write a lot about FPGAs here at EEJournal, with good reason, and you might get the impression that they’re the right solution to every…
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Watch Out! It’s the Smallest Stereo Camera in the World!
I cannot believe how fast things are moving when it comes to things like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), especially in the context…
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Microchip Powers Down the Edge
Microchip’s FPGA offering has a heritage of low power and high reliability. Beginning with Actel’s antifuse- and flash-based devices that were picked up and advanced…
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Its vs. It’s
In recent columns (see Using USB4? Require ReTiming? Kandou Can-Do! and Just Call Me an Indexing Fool), I’ve made mention of the fact that I’m…
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Losing Hubble – Saving Hubble
And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time ‘Til touchdown brings me ’round again to find I’m not the man they think I…
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NOR Flash is Sexy Again!
I was just chatting with the chaps and chapesses at Macronix, which is a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, providing…
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A Brief History of the Single-Chip DSP, Part II
After DSP’s annus mirabilis in 1948, another three decades would pass before actual, practical DSP chips would appear. DSP bits and pieces like TRW’s MPY016H…