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  • How to Stop an Embedded Virus

    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…

  • New DSP IP Makes Your Eyes Water

    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,…

  • Ampere Altra Addresses ARM Aspirations

    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…

  • Introducing Girls to Engineering

    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…

  • Lattice mVision Stack

    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…

  • Machine Learning at the Push of a Button

    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…

  • Sensors, Space Probes, and Wi-Fi Cybersecurity, Oh My!

    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…

  • Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

    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…

  • What Is a Cache, Anyway?

    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…

  • Silicon to Satisfy the AIoT: xcore.ai

    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…