Science fiction is all about “what if.” What if there were no gravity? What if apes developed an advanced civilization after our own? What if we’re living in a computer simulation?
What if voice-activated gadgets used a lot less power? Would that change the way people use them, or make them more useful, or open up new applications? What … Read More → "Voice Activation Gets More Efficient"
For leading FPGA suppliers Xilinx and Intel (Altera), the secret to success has always been to beat the other. That’s how duopolies work. For everyone else wanting to wedge their way into the highly-competitive programmable logic market, common wisdom has always been to find a niche.
The niche strategy is more of a survival trick. Numerous companies have made … Read More → "Achronix Goes Head-to-Head"
Boo! A scary new variation of the Spectre CPU bug has surfaced, and it may be resistant to the fixes and countermeasures already deployed. Or maybe not.
A band of CS/EE students has Read More → "Spectre Bug Rears Its Head Again"
We are talking about working smarter not harder in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! To start things off, I investigate a new brain-like computing device developed by a team of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Hong Kong. I take a closer look at how this new device is able to simultaneously process and store information and the details of the new synaptic transistor at the … Read More → "Work Smarter Not Harder: Optimized Software Pipelines and A New Brain-Like Device Learns by Association"
Are you familiar with the Tracealyzer and DevAlert tools from Percepio? How about the Luos distributed (not exactly an) operating system from Luos? I don’t know about you, but for me, the past few days have been jam-packed with my learning all sorts of exciting nuggets of knowledge and tidbits of trivia pertaining to the implementing, monitoring, and debugging of embedded systems using these little … Read More → "New Paradigms for Implementing, Monitoring, and Debugging Embedded Systems"
How do you do, fellow youths! This week we’re reviewing the chilliest gadget in the ’hood. I’m pretty sure that’s what it is, anyway.
Canadian startup Boréas has gone all-in on haptics, producing its own controller chip … Read More → "Boréas Does Haptics Better"
 How to solve two screenless TV design challengesSponsored by Texas Instruments The new 4K display chipsets from DLP Products help make screenless TV setup easier and save cost by reducing the number of components required while also adding more advanced image-processing capabilities. The DLP471TP DMD and DLPC6540 controller for small designs and the DLP471TE DMD and DLPC7540 controller for designs above 1,500 lumens help deliver stunning ultra-high resolution displays to the market and take advantage of the rapid expansion in the availability of 4K content. |
