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Laser Imaging PCB Solder Masks is a Game Changer
I was just chatting with the guys and gals at Limata. These clever little scamps specialize in creating affordable laser direct imaging (LDI) solutions for…
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Wireless Chargers Present Ethical Dilemmas
“… spooky action at a distance.” – Albert Einstein I’ll admit, I’m biased on this one. Back when I had a real job, with an…
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Loose Lips Sink MIPS
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” – Grateful Dead If you think designing a microprocessor is complicated, try following its ownership saga. The tangled…
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Microchip’s New CoaXPress 2.0 Chips Speed Machine Vision
It’s funny how, when you keep on hearing stories about companies heading in one direction, the news that someone is going the other way makes…
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Wi-Fi HaLow Close to Making Its Debut
“Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.” — Guglielmo Marconi Well, that escalated quickly. Wi-Fi was invented only 20…
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Punching Above Their Weight, Achronix Beats the Odds
We first met Achronix back in 2004 and have been following them constantly for sixteen years now. We’ve seen the company go from a founder-funded…
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Taking Photos with a Clock
“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.” – Pink Floyd This definitely falls into the “red pill” category. What if I told…
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Handling Radiation in SRAM-Based FPGAs (Part 2)
As we discussed in Part 1 of this two-part mega-mini-series, radiation in its various forms has long been the bane of designers of electronic systems,…
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Tachyum Demos Four-Way Software Translation
“There is no prodigy in our profession.” – Luciano Pavarotti So far, so good. That’s the status report from Tachyum, the ambitious startup creating Prodigy,…
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Red Points Catches Online Counterfeiters
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (Who watches the watchers?) — Decimus Junius Juvenalis Most of us are familiar with the RIAA, copyright infringement, and online piracy.…