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A Brief History of the Single-Chip DSP, Part I
DSP dates back to the very beginnings of the digital age, perhaps even a little bit before. If the construction of the first digital computer,…
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Secure Your Data at Rest, Stupid!
As I’ve mentioned on occasion, I was born in the city of Sheffield in the county of Yorkshire in that paradise on Earth known to…
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Ooh, Ooh that Smell! Can Intel’s IPUs Clean up the Cloud Data Center Mess?
Data center architecture must change because the applications running in data centers have changed. Several factors are forcing these architectural changes, including some key trends:…
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Just Call Me an Indexing Fool
I love words. I wish I knew more of them. I like to believe that I have a reasonably extensive vocabulary at my disposal, but…
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The Bad Guys are Winning in Cyberspace. Here’s One Way to Beat Them
The news is grim. The number of cyberhack attacks and database breaches mounts with each passing week. It’s costing companies and people some big money…
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Will Intel’s New Architectural Advances Define the Next Decade of Computing?
A few days ago at the time of this writing, the crème de la crème of the world’s technical press were welcomed to an invitation-only…
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You Must Remember This: A Bit is Just a Bit, A Byte is Just a Byte – Part 2
Part 1 of this article discussed the similarities and differences between the well-known processor memory hierarchy and the FPGA memory hierarchy. Although similar, the FPGA…
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You Must Remember This: A Bit is Just a Bit, A Byte is Just a Byte – Part 1
One simplistic way to think about FPGA anatomy is to split everything inside of the FPGA into two categories: resources that do stuff (process bits)…
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Using USB4? Require ReTiming? Kandou Can-Do!
OMG! I only just got used to the idea of USB 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2, and now I find that something called USB4 is barreling…
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Is a $6.99, Tilswall 6000-count Multimeter from Amazon a Tool or a Toy?
For someone who really believes in using quality tools, I buy far too many cheap ones. Case in point: I just bought a 6000-count Tilswall…