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Open vs. Closed: A Design Dilemma
I consider that an embedded solution is the state of the art then, i.e., when you validate every feature (and the whole thing) and send it to the customer - here begins the issues. So even if you use an Open Design you have to close it at that exact momen...
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Bridging the Gap
Hi Amelia,
I would really like this kit and as this is the fun week I would like to use it to make a fully synchronous PinBall machine with a cycle accurate switching of multiple pins at the same time. Also to increase my luck I did send you a invitatio...
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The PC In Your Ear
True enough, but for many people a "PC" is, by definition, something that runs Windows.
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After software, what's next?
During six-plus decades of adherence to the Turing paradigm, the computer field has reaped the benefits of ever- faster and -denser (and -reliable) hardware. Over the same span of decades, the creation and maintenance of software hasn’t gotten any easier ...
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Why Use an 8-bit Core When 32 Bits Are Better?
In other news, they hold another kind of 8k mcu demo compo in France; spooky computation at EU distance.
The Microprocessor Report abstracts on Lilliputian mcu are generous, but it is nice to see this as an option to a Cadence module suggestion I can't...
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Connecting the Dots
I would like that kit. The kid's still working through the C++0x0B and D+ standard libraries, so I have a little time before he takes the 1/8-pitch brazing gun and makes everything single-inheritance (or Hadoop templates.)