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  • MORE Lawyers, Please!

    In response to Dick Selwood’s recent article “Lawyers, Bankers, and Engineers”, I want to take a different (and perhaps controversial) stand:  We need MORE lawyers.…

  • Multicore Best Practices

    The hardest thing that multicore has had going for it is the perception that it’s hard. OK, that plus the fact that it is, in…

  • More Analog

    There’s been a clear trend over the last decade or so: analog is succumbing to digital. More and more, the modus operandi has been, “Sample…

  • You Put That Where??

    Wearable electronics is the coming thing, and fitness-related gear is the most obvious thing to wear. And CES had a huge section dedicated to these…

  • Cloud Computing Deniers

    I’m not a big fan of “cloud computing,” as EEJ readers know. It seems like a stap backwards, to 1970s-era timeshare machines instead of the…

  • A Vote for Java

    I don’t know this for sure, but I can imagine that some marketing folks at STMicroelectronics were less than thrilled by the high-profile Java issues…

  • Detecting Intuitive

    A little over a year ago I went on a bit of a rant about intuitive design. Now… for those of you running for the…

  • The OS is the Standard

    There are two widespread myths in the MEMS world. Or so said ST’s Benedetto Vigna, EVP and GM of ST Micro’s Analog, MEMS, and Sensor…

  • Breker Tests Multicore

    Earlier this year we were introduced to Breker, a company that generates C tests for stressing SoC architectures and verifying that things work even with…

  • MIPS Gets a New Home

    Hey, wanna buy a CPU company? You’re too late, because MIPS Technologies was just sold for $60 million in cash. If that’s more than you…