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How to Stop an Embedded Virus
“I eat at the unlimited buffet of danger.” – R.J. Haywire Security is de rigueur these days, and, like machine learning and cloud connectivity, it’s…
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New DSP IP Makes Your Eyes Water
It seems that almost every day I hear about some cool and exciting techno-wonder originating with those clever guys and gals in Israel. For example,…
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Ampere Altra Addresses ARM Aspirations
“My Zen garden’s more serene than yours.” — Dan Piraro, “Bizarro” The most powerful force in the computer world is inertia. We stick with the…
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Introducing Girls to Engineering
I was recently introduced to the concept of Engineers Week (EWeek), which was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) in 1951. This…
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Lattice mVision Stack
We’ve elaborated at length in these pages on the remarkable capabilities FPGAs bring to the world of embedded vision and vision analytics. With enormous numbers…
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Machine Learning at the Push of a Button
“Physician, heal thyself” – Luke 4:23 My Thermos bottle keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold. How does it know? An electrical engineer would…
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Sensors, Space Probes, and Wi-Fi Cybersecurity, Oh My!
I’m afraid that I don’t know as much about imaging sensors as I would like. I was just about to say that I don’t really…
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Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche
“Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.” — Casey Neistat Tiffany & Co. isn’t the biggest retailer in the world, but they seem to do…
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What Is a Cache, Anyway?
“If [a small business’s] cashflow dries up, the impact is fatal.” – Theo Paphitis, entrepreneur What if FedEx replaced its delivery vans with a fleet…
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Silicon to Satisfy the AIoT: xcore.ai
There’s a really interesting company called XMOS that’s based in the UK. One of the things that’s noteworthy about the folks at XMOS is that…