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Specialty Tech for the Mainstream
The upshot: GlobalFoundries, having foregone the bleeding edge, has positioned itself as offering specialty technology – but, if you look at the numbers, it’s for…
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Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce (Part 1)
They taught me a lot of things at university. Unfortunately, they neglected to mention the topic of switch bounce. If you are a practicing engineer…
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The Originality Myth
Every engineer I’ve ever asked has said the same thing happens to them on a fairly regular basis. They’ll see an online announcement or presentation…
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Killing Off Products for Fun and Profit
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow Product longevity may not be dead, but…
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Neural-Net Inference Benchmarks
The upshot: MLPerf has announced inference benchmarks for neural networks, along with initial results. Congratulations! You now have the unenviable task of deciding which neural-network…
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Not Your Grandmother’s Embedded Systems
As I mentioned in a recent column — [Electronic] Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future — the fact that we have just drifted into the…
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Silexica Bridges the HLS Gap
Today, we call it “acceleration” – the use of specialized hardware to optimize compute tasks that do not perform well on conventional von Neumann processors.…
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What Makes Secure Processors Different?
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true.” ― James Branch Cabell Given the…
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Large ASIL-D Chips
The upshot: Optima claims to have accelerated functional-safety fault coverage by 1000x, making possible large ASIL-D chips. Functional safety is the new headache on the…
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How to Start a Startup (Part 4)
I must admit that when I first started writing this miniseries, I had no idea how much interest it would stir. In Part 1, we…