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Make Your Design Audio Savvy
Voice control and audio interfaces are popping up in a wide spectrum of applications these days, and the possibilities extend far beyond Alexa, Google, and…
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Plundervolt Plagues Intel x86 Processors
“Little things console us because little things afflict us.” – Blaise Pascal The latest Intel bug already has its own logo and website: Plundervolt.com. You…
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Graph-Based AI Accelerators
We’ve looked at a number of architectures for accelerating neural-network inference calculations before. As an example, those we saw from Hot Chips were big, beefy…
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How to Get Rich (I Think)
“Plastics.” – Mr. McGuire, “The Graduate” We’re kicking off the new year with valuable, never-to-be-repeated business advice. Silicon Valley, like Las Vegas and parts of…
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Silicon IP Security Proposal
The upshot: Accellera has published a whitepaper on the topic of silicon intellectual-property security, and they’re soliciting comments. Last summer, there were a number of…
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[Electronic] Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future
A couple of days ago, I decided that I really needed a laser distance measurer (it’s best if you don’t ask questions), so I ambled…
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Teaching Alexa to Ignore Your TV
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan It’s the time of year for giving gadgets, so this seemed like an appropriate time to revisit…
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WiFi (et al) with Lower Power
The upshot: InnoPhase has cut WiFi power by more than half, making it more attractive for battery-powered applications that need WiFi bandwidth. The new radio…
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How to Start a Startup (Part 3)
In Part 1 of this miniseries, we considered some fundamental points like choosing your company and website names; also, getting a professional graphic designer to…
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Microchip PolarFire Takes a RISC (-V)
FPGAs and embedded processors are the new chocolate and peanut butter. Although each of the two technologies is powerful and useful all on its own,…