Managing the Massive Data Throughput: AI-Based Designs and The Value of NoC Tiling

My podcast guest this week is Andy Nightingale, Vice President Product Management & Marketing at Arteris. Andy and I chat about the key challenge faced by SoC designers when building NoC interconnects for AI based designs, the details of NoC interconnect IP soft tiling and some real world examples of AI based designs that benefit from NoC IP soft tiling. Also this week, I check out … Read More → "Managing the Massive Data Throughput: AI-Based Designs and The Value of NoC Tiling"

Streaming AI Development and Deployment at the Edge

I’ve said it before, and I’ll doubtless say it again—I like a simple story that I can wrap (what I laughingly call) my mind around. Too many times have I received a briefing from some overly enthusiastic company spokes-wiffle-waffle-person—you know the kind, they talk quickly and wave their arms around a lot—only for us to arrive at the end of the presentation … Read More → "Streaming AI Development and Deployment at the Edge"

The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 6: And Yet More Final Thoughts

Before conducting my Zoom interview about the Heath Company and Heathkits with Chas Gilmore – formerly the VP of product development, marketing, and sales at Heath – I sent him a written list of questions so he could review and organize his memories of working at Heath. We covered most of my questions during the interview, which appear in the first five parts of this article series, but we … Read More → "The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 6: And Yet More Final Thoughts"

The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 5: Final Thoughts

Towards the end of my interview with Chas Gilmore – formerly the VP of product development, marketing, and sales at the Heath Company – I realized we had not touched on a couple of questions I’d sent to him in preparation for our Zoom call in October: whether any particular Heathkits stood out in his mind, and if he remembered the Heathkit Microwave Oven kit I’d built … Read More → "The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 5: Final Thoughts"

The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 4: The Demise of Heathkit

Chas Gilmore joined the Heath Company in 1966 as a design engineer in the company’s Scientific Instruments group. By 1976, he was director of engineering for Heath’s technical products, which included amateur radio, instrumentation, marine, automotive, and weather products. This article, Part 4 of a series based on an interview with Gilmore, discusses the Heath Company’s changes after its acquisition by Zenith and then subsequently by France’ … Read More → "The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 4: The Demise of Heathkit"

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discussion
Posted on Dec 4 at 9:56am by JerryGarciaII
Very interesting interview (all 6 parts) Entertaining as well as informative. Mr. Gilmore tells the story with a kind and thoughtful voice. Thank you for sharing this.
Posted on Dec 2 at 12:48pm by Max Maxfield
I see this as being two distinct problems -- the first is generating high-quality documentation -- the second is understanding vast amounts of (often poorly written) documentation. In the latter case, I would welcome a tool that can digest hundreds (perhaps thousands) of pages of poorly written and badly correlated ...
Posted on Dec 2 at 12:44pm by Max Maxfield
As far as I know, it can. I've not used it myself, but I'm hoping to do so when I get the time -- if so, I will report further :-)
Posted on Dec 2 at 12:43pm by Max Maxfield
I totally agree -- I hate opening a book that essentially starts "As we all know..." followed by pages of incomprehensible BS. I don't want authors to show me how clever they are -- I want then to make me feel clever for understanding what they are talking about :-)
Posted on Dec 2 at 12:40pm by Max Maxfield
I don't know them -- are they friends of yours, or are you commenting on the quality of their documentation?
Posted on Dec 1 at 3:21pm by traneusee
The GR-150 transistor radio solder and no-solder versions have been discontinued, replaced by the GR-152 solder-only radio.
Posted on Dec 1 at 6:52am by Steven Leibson
Glad you got your heirloom running. Now you can practice Morse for the holidays. That 2N3906 ought to last a while.
Posted on Nov 30 at 9:56am by traneusee
I just repaired the CO-1 code practice oscillator I received as a Christmas present in 1960 or 61 or 62. The Texas Instruments 2N238 PNP germanium transistor (date code 949) had died, so I replaced it with a 2N3906 PNP silicon transistor, and restored oscillation. The difference in Vbe does not matter in the ...
Posted on Nov 29 at 11:50am by Karl Stevens
Documentation should be done "in context", not merely following arbitrary rules mechanically. Or in this case some rules known only to a program. It was assumed that a new MCU was to be designed. Does that mean it will be programmed in C? "Logic design" is only known and understood ...
Posted on Nov 27 at 5:58pm by traneusee
Thanks for the correct URL.
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