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Find Your Keys in Nothing Flat
“Location, location, location.” – Real estate mantra Ultrawideband (UWB) is the proverbial twenty-year overnight success. The concept has been around for a long time, but…
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Cadence Brings Clarity to EMI
EMI is the ghost in our machines, the phantom of our electronic operas. We create our systems with a specific purpose, and our engineering efforts…
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Best and Worst Smart Home Interfaces
“’Easy to use’ is easy to say.” – Jeff Garber My tech-savvy kids are preparing to move to another country, so I just inherited a…
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Feast Your Orbs on NVIDIA’s Jetson Nano 2GB Dev Kit
It’s a funny old world and no mistake. Just a few days ago as I pen these words, I was on a video chat with…
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Updating the Centuries-Old On/Off Switch
“I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”…
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If AMD Buys Xilinx
Six years ago, we speculated about what would happen if Intel were to buy Altera. A year later, they did, and a lot of our…
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What Is a Compiler, Anyway?
“We still have judgement here, that we but teach bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague th’inventor.” – Macbeth, 1.7 Today we dive into…
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The JOYCE Project to Equip Machines with Human-Like Perception
Did you ever watch the British television science fiction comedy Red Dwarf? The stage for this tale is the eponymous spaceship Red Dwarf, which is…
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Weird Instructions I Have Loved
“Simplify and add lightness.” – Colin Chapman If you don’t write assembly-language programs, you’ll miss out on some strange, interesting, wonderful, or uniquely powerful instructions…
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Using Not-a-Blockchain to Secure Embedded Devices
“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.” — H. L. Mencken Mention “distributed ledger technology” and you’ll either get a blank stare or…