A Brave New World of Emulation and Software Prototyping

Like so many of the technologies we take for granted today, I managed to find myself embroiled in the very early days of hardware emulation. This refers to the process of imitating the behavior of one piece of hardware (typically a silicon chip you are in the process of designing) with another piece of hardware (typically a special-purpose emulation system).

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Intuitive Machines sticks its moon landing (mostly), with emergency help from two on-board FPGAs

“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,” a Hugo-award-winning SF novel published by Robert Heinlein in 1966, is an apt title that explains why so many actual moon missions fail. Landing on the Earth’s moon safely is hard. The first spacecraft to crash on the moon was the USSR’s Luna 2 spacecraft. It “impacted” the moon in 1959, followed by the first US spacecraft to impact the moon, … Read More → "Intuitive Machines sticks its moon landing (mostly), with emergency help from two on-board FPGAs"

The Future Will Be Spicy! Building Better Hardware More Efficiently with Allspice

In my Fish Fry podcast this week, Allspice co-founders Valentina Ratner and Kyle Dumont and I chat all about hardware design collaboration, modernizing workflows, and how we can build better hardware more efficiently with Allspice. Kyle, Valentina and I explore the role that automation plays in the Allspice Git platform, the design review methodology that this solution utilizes, and why streamlined communication is vital to the future of hardware … Read More → "The Future Will Be Spicy! Building Better Hardware More Efficiently with Allspice"

Reimagining Radar in the Form of High-Resolution 4D Sensing Systems

I know lots of engineers who could engineer me under the table, as it were. Hmmm, sometimes I read what I just wrote, and I think, “I wonder if anyone understands the meaning I’m attempting to impart,” like the “under the table” portion of the previous sentence, for example.

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HP Inc tries to brick my wife’s printer. CEO approves and calls people like me “bad customers” on CNBC.

Last October, HP Inc issued an over-the-air firmware update to its printers that contained a Trojan Horse of the company’s own making. The update conned printer owners into accepting the update by saying that it was an anti-virus update. Instead, the update reconfigured the printers’ cartridge-reading routines so that they would brick the printer if they detected a non-HP ink cartridge. This Trojan slumbered silently in … Read More → "HP Inc tries to brick my wife’s printer. CEO approves and calls people like me “bad customers” on CNBC."

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We are Altera. We are for the innovators.

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Today we embark on an exciting journey as we transition to Altera, an Intel Company. In a world of endless opportunities and challenges, we are here to provide the flexibility needed by our ecosystem of customers and partners to pioneer and accelerate innovation. As we leap into the future, we are committed to providing easy-to-design and deploy leadership programmable solutions to innovators to unlock extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.

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Posted on Mar 28 at 7:09am by Max Maxfield
Let's take a vote -- how many of us want to spend our days reading nothing but whitepapers? Would we learn a lot? Yes. Would we enjoy spending out days this way? No. For myself, I like to think that people enjoy my articles in their own right--I think I've ...
Posted on Mar 28 at 7:03am by Max Maxfield
"Seagate has just introduced a 3½-inch hard drive family – called the Exos Mozaic 3+ – with a maximum capacity of 30 Tbytes." I'm ignoring all the "argy-bargy" in the comments above -- I'm just staggered by the 30Tbyte value. Back in 1980, the company I worked for had about 8 people (I was number 6 in) ...
Posted on Mar 28 at 6:27am by Max Maxfield
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is one of my favorite Heinlein books (as a kid I also used to like "Space Family Stoke, which was called "The Rolling Stones" in the USA, and "Red Planet," and "Farmer in the Sky," and... don't get me started :-)
Posted on Mar 27 at 8:51pm by Ansi_Kenabi17
1. FLASH has pathetic write endurance and lifetime, compared to "spinning rust". ESPECIALLY multilevel cells. 2. In which unuverse is LTO-0 cheaper per TB than a HDD ? I've just checked the prices: - I can get a 18TB HDD for €16-ish/TB(€278) and 24 TB model for @20-ish/TB (€470).LTO-9 unit is listed ...
Posted on Mar 27 at 8:11am by Steven Leibson
The difference, dear reader, is self-actualized research. Today's LLM's don't do it. Humans can. This research takes two forms: continuous and directed. Continuous research means that you're constantly expanding your own training. For example, a March 9 story in "New Scientist" titled "AI maths skills get a 'Star Trek' boost" discusses ...
Posted on Mar 27 at 3:41am by tcfkat
I made a quiz out of this question: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showquiz/34
Posted on Mar 26 at 8:52am by Androgynous Cow Herd
" an LLM’s inability to go beyond the material it’s trained on" - OK, and that differentiates from a human writer how, exactly? The ability to make stuff up? Actually "AI" can do that now as well...we call it "hallucinations" and it's a pretty awful phenomenon - now ...
Posted on Mar 25 at 11:45am by tcfkat
Yes! And when it comes to relais ... you know why sometimes a zener diode is put in series with the freewheling diode that is always parallel to the coil?
Posted on Mar 25 at 10:46am by Max Maxfield
That's a great suggestion -- if I ever revisit this topic I will add "wetting current" into the mix. There's so much more to switches than most people imagine :-)
Posted on Mar 25 at 2:31am by tcfkat
Hello Max! Excellent series of articles! You should also mention the importance of the so called wetting current: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting_current I have a kitchen oven with a switching contact where only microamperes flow to the (incorrectly designed) electronics. Its contacts regularly get dirty and I ...
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