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Time, Ethernet, and White Rabbits
Physics teaches us that distance is time. Light travels at a finite speed, so looking at a faraway object is, in a sense, looking back…
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High Entropy is the Foundation for High Security
Perhaps not surprisingly in the light of all the cyber-attacks and data breaches we’ve been seeing recently, the topics of cyber-security, cyber-resiliency, and securing one’s…
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Wine Wi-Fi Finds Fine Vines
Winemaking is an occupation steeped in tradition, to mix my metaphors. Winery websites feature richly sepia-toned photos of rugged Old World types squeezing the soil…
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Xilinx Introduces Kria SoMs
Integration is the fundamental fuel that drives technical innovation. Each new node of Moore’s Law has allowed us to “Cram More Components” onto our integrated…
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Is an Instruction Set an API?
No less an authority than the United States Supreme Court just ruled that a program’s application programming interface can be copied under the doctrine of…
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Predictive Maintenance Evaluation Kit for Smart Buildings
One of the myriad problems I face — in addition to (a) being persistently pursued by gaggles of groupies and (b) the fact that all…
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Clever Hack Finds Mystery CPU Instructions
In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, a team of doctors and scientists gets miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of a human patient. They and…
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The First Emulators of Spring
It’s the season of rebirth. The sun is out. Flowers are in bloom. Birds busily build nests while semiconductor verification teams emerge from their long…
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Parsing Google v. Oracle: What’s It Really Mean?
It’s okay to duplicate an API, even if you have to snarf 11,500 lines of somebody else’s code to do it. That’s the gist of…
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ID for the IoT? We Need the IDoT!
When most people hear the term “counterfeiting,” their knee-jerk reaction is to think of currency, the counterfeiting of which is as old as the concept…