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You Can’t Touch This: New Sensor Edition
“And he that strives to touch the stars oft stumbles at a straw.” – Edmund Spenser Touch-screen interfaces are cool and sexy and very much…
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Electrical and Thermal Analysis Together
The upshot: Cadence’s Celsius tool provides thermal analysis in tandem with Voltus and Innovus (for chips) and Allegro (for packages and boards). Temperature has always…
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How to Start a Startup (Part 2)
In my previous column, we noted that a lot of engineers are interested in starting their own company. We began by considering some of the…
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Nuvia: Designed for the One Percenters
“I’d love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.” – Johnny Rotten Among sports car aficionados, a “Super Seven” is a 1960s-era Lotus:…
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Intel’s “World’s Largest” FPGA
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again — J.M. Barrie – Peter Pan — Battlestar Galactica First, let’s get the headline…
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Synthetic Images for AI Training
The upshot: Mindtech provides a capability for creating fully annotated synthetic training images to complement real images for improved AI training. We’ve spent a lot…
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How to Start a Startup (Part 1)
I’ve attended a lot of engineering conferences in my time. One of the topics a lot of younger engineers like to chat about is the…
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WebAssembly: JavaScript Done Right
“The most dangerous tool in the world is a dull knife.” — unknown Google Earth is pretty cool, right? You can zoom in on any…
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Full-Chip ILT in a Day
The upshot: With a custom computing box that emulates a giant CPU/GPU pair, D2S says that they can perform full-chip ILT in a day. Ever…
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Half-Life 2: Killing Products
“Veni, Vidi, Velcro: I came, I saw, I stuck around.” – unknown How long should you keep your products in production? If you’re making steam…