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All I Want for Christmas Is My 176-Layer Flash
“I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met.” – Herb Caen When Micron first told me about their new…
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Ultra-Low-Cost Flexible ICs Make Possible Trillions of Smart Objects
As is usually the case, strange things are afoot in Max’s World (where the butterflies are bigger, the flowers are more colorful, the birds sing…
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When Obfuscated Code Is a Good Thing
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” – anonymous Obfuscated code is normally considered a bad thing. Plenty of us write unintelligible code by accident,…
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Advancing HLS Adoption – Xilinx, Silexica, Falcon
The history of digital hardware design is one of managing ever-increasing complexity by raising the level of design abstraction. When our digital circuits had four…
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Booting DOS from a Vinyl Record
“The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.” – Adam Savage Bonus points for creativity. A Slovakian engineer has finally solved the…
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Spacing Out with Spin Memory
There’s an old saying that goes, “Standards are great… everyone should have one.” The problem being, of course, that so many people do, resulting in…
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How Magical is Apple’s M1 Chip, Really?
“Make me one with everything.” – Buddhist monk to a hot dog vendor Why don’t polar bears eat penguins? Easy: because polar bears live at…
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Bosch HW + Cartesiam SW = Rapid Prototyping of AI on the Edge
I just heard some mega-exciting news from the folks at Cartesiam.ai, whose claim to fame is that they enable embedded developers to bring artificial intelligence…
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New Nonvolatile Memory Takes Shape
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” – William Gibson Memory is different from logic. We learn this early in our careers, especially if…
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VSORA Pushes the PetaFLOPS for Autonomous Driving
Autonomous driving is a wildly challenging problem. Of all the headline-grabbing technologies in development today, replacing the human driver in a car probably takes the…