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Didja Hear the One About the 3¢ MCU?
“In my day we only had 1’s and 0’s. And sometimes we ran out of 0’s!” – old programmer Cognitive dissonance means entertaining two conflicting…
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Accelerating Video for the Masses
It’s not news that streaming video is taking over the world. And, in the process, it has become by far the leading consumer of internet…
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A Google for Components
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” — Eric Hoffer It’s not often that you get to solve two problems…
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Distributed On-Chip Temperature Sensors Improve Performance and Reliability
I’m starting to fear the world is passing me by. When I designed my first ASIC in 1980, it was a Toshiba gate array device…
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WattIQ Uses Its Power for Good
“You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi Berra Think of a big pharmaceutical laboratory. People in white lab coats. Big shiny pieces…
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Apollo 11 vs. the USB Charger
“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong We all know that computers get faster over time, but…
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Making FPGA SoC Easier
There are about a zillion SoCs on the market today, perhaps even a zillion and a half, we haven’t counted in awhile. Of course most…
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GAP9 for ML at the Edge
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” – Mark Twain When we last checked up on GreenWaves, the French company had just launched its…
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Automotive Cameras Avoid the Pedestrian
“While the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!” – Ansel Adams Highway signs flicker. We just don’t notice it. This was…
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You’re Not My Type!
When I was a student at university, in those dim and distant days we used to call the 1970s, my degree in Control Engineering involved…