Month: August 2017

editor's blog archive

Happy Birthday Curiosity

August 3, 2017

Strictly speaking it is not the fifth birthday of Mars Rover Curiosity, since it had been built over many years and its journey from Earth to Mars took months but it was five (Earth) years ago that Curiosity landed on Mars for a 90 day mission. And it is still trundling around. Just shows that you can build reliable embedded systems.

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PCB design is like conducting a full-fledged orchestra. In many creation myths, a supreme being sings the world into existence - take the fourteen Ainurs of Lord of the Rings, for example. Well,... [[ Click on the title to access the full blog on the Cadence Community site. ...

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