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Pulling Yourself up by Your Bootstraps
A couple of days ago as I pen these words, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone asking, “Can you advise me about what…
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Mipsology Brings “Zero Effort” Inference
Like the proverbial carrot-on-a-stick, FPGA-based acceleration has been right in front of our noses, just out of reach, for the better part of three decades.…
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Ambiq Apollo4 Undercuts IoT Power
“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.” — Aeschylus Ambiq has a new microcontroller. Of all the MCUs you could pick for your next…
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Where Do Programming Languages Go to Die?
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi volutpat.” If you’re a parent with small children, you’ve probably taught them to “tie” their shoes…
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Eeek Alors! Radiation Hardened eFPGA IP
I think it’s fair to say that the majority of my friends in Embedded Space (where no one can hear you scream) tend to live…
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Old Man Yells at Clouds, 2020 Edition
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” – unknown (but not Albert Einstein) It’s sad…
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A Brave New World of Analog Artificial Neural Networks (AANNs)
It can be a funny old world when you come to think about it. I remember when I was a young engineer and industry pundits…
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Do You Work at a Tech Company? Are You Sure?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke Surprise pop quiz! Don’t worry, it’s an open-book test, you can read your…
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ARM’s Sleight of Hand
When you want to unload some rusty old lawn furniture, you have a lot of choices. You can list them on eBay or Craigslist. You…
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Spinning Rust Gets an Upgrade
“… we used cassette tape [in school] because we didn’t have floppy disk drives.” – Parker Harris, co-founder of Salesforce.com When you say, “I have…