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Lattice Powers-up Industry 4.0
Lattice Semiconductor has hit their stride, smoothly executing the strategy they laid out a couple of years ago. In the wake of a failed acquisition,…
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The Secret Power Behind SSDs
I keep waiting for hard disk drives to die off, but they just never do. Individual drives fail all the time, but the whole category…
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Cloud-Based Genetic Algorithms and Computer Vision Applications
Do you recall my earlier column When Genetic Algorithms Meet Artificial Intelligence? This reflected my discovery that the chaps and chapesses at Algolux are using…
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Voice Activation Gets More Efficient
Science fiction is all about “what if.” What if there were no gravity? What if apes developed an advanced civilization after our own? What if…
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Achronix Goes Head-to-Head
For leading FPGA suppliers Xilinx and Intel (Altera), the secret to success has always been to beat the other. That’s how duopolies work. For everyone…
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Spectre Bug Rears Its Head Again
Boo! A scary new variation of the Spectre CPU bug has surfaced, and it may be resistant to the fixes and countermeasures already deployed. Or…
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New Paradigms for Implementing, Monitoring, and Debugging Embedded Systems
Are you familiar with the Tracealyzer and DevAlert tools from Percepio? How about the Luos distributed (not exactly an) operating system from Luos? I don’t…
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Boréas Does Haptics Better
How do you do, fellow youths! This week we’re reviewing the chilliest gadget in the ’hood. I’m pretty sure that’s what it is, anyway. Canadian…
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Journalism 010101
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a journalist? No? Look away now, because here we go. Journalism is mostly about filtering. There are a…
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Want to Learn Programming and Microcontrollers?
The funny thing about knowing something yourself is that you tend to assume everyone else knows it also. This is especially true on a site…