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IOTech and Lotus Labs Deliver AI and Visual Inferencing at the IoT Edge

October 28, 2021

“Oh, my giddy aunt!” I find it hard to believe that the last time I wrote about IOTech here on EEJournal was in “the before times” we used to call April 2020 when I waffled on about IOTech: Bridging the OT-IT Divide. Now I have even more exciting news to impart, but first…

I was wondering about the origin of the phrase, “Oh, my giddy aunt,” so I … Read More → "IOTech and Lotus Labs Deliver AI and Visual Inferencing at the IoT Edge"

Am I Going SMAD?

by Max Maxfield

October 26, 2021

Do you recall the 1963 American comedy film — It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — starring Spencer Tracy accompanied by an all-star cast of comedians, including Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Terry Thomas, and Phil Silvers? Well, that has nothing to do with what we’re going to talk about here.

In my previous column — CIRRENT Cloud ID Automates Cloud Certificate Provisioning … Read More → "Am I Going SMAD?"

Danger: UXC – These Seven Perils Including Exploding Capacitors Can Kill Your Power Supplies

Time Bombs Sit Inside of Your Aging Power Supplies; They’re Just Ticking Down the Seconds

by Steven Leibson

October 25, 2021

A wonderful British ITV television series made in 1979 called “Danger: UXB” depicted the hazardous adventures of a fictitious Royal Engineer tunneling company as it spread out across London to disarm or destroy the thousands of unexploded bombs (UXBs) that penetrated the city’s surface during the Blitz of World War II. I saw the series a year or two later on PBS, where it appeared as a 13-episode “Masterpiece Theater” series. Riveting stuff that I vividly recall watching some 40 years later.

I was reminded of the series, oddly, by a … Read More → "Danger: UXC – These Seven Perils Including Exploding Capacitors Can Kill Your Power Supplies"

CIRRENT Cloud ID Automates Cloud Certificate Provisioning and IoT Device-to-Cloud Authentication

by Max Maxfield

October 21, 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) product companies have been struggling for years to simplify manufacturing, security, and provisioning. Well, I was just chatting with those clever lads and lasses at Infineon about their latest offering in the ongoing battle against the nefarious scoundrels who will steal or compromise your silicon chips if given half a chance. I can’t wait to tell you all about this, but first…

…all sorts of thoughts … Read More → "CIRRENT Cloud ID Automates Cloud Certificate Provisioning and IoT Device-to-Cloud Authentication"

Machine Learning: Esperanto coaxes 1092 RISC-V Processors to Dance on the Head of a Pin, er Chip

Is This the Big One for Dave Ditzel, or Will History Repeat Itself?

by Steven Leibson

October 18, 2021

Dave Ditzel has a legendary history with computing and microprocessors. He joined AT&T Bell Labs to work on C language development. While there, he developed several generations of processors designed to execute optimized compiled C programs including CRISP, Bell Labs’s “C-language Reduced Instruction Set Processor.”

At Bell Labs, Ditzel also co-authored the foundational RISC document, “The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer,” with UC Berkeley’s Professor David Patterson. Ditzel then joined Sun Microsystems as CTO of the SPARC Technology Business, where he led development of … Read More → "Machine Learning: Esperanto coaxes 1092 RISC-V Processors to Dance on the Head of a Pin, er Chip"

Mega-Cool Laser-Based Sub-Jellybean-Sized Multizone Ranging Sensor

by Max Maxfield

October 14, 2021

I’ve just been playing with one of the new VL53L5CX Time-of-Flight 8×8 Multizone Ranging Sensors from STMicroelectronics. On the bright side (no pun intended), this involved a laser beam bouncing all around my office. Sad to relate, however, I couldn’t see it because it was outside the range of human vision.

I tell you — every day I’m introduced to some amazing technology like this new sensor, which makes me cogitate and ruminate on how fast and how far things have progressed since I started out. In … Read More → "Mega-Cool Laser-Based Sub-Jellybean-Sized Multizone Ranging Sensor"

Intel’s Stuart Pann Explains the Company’s use of Outside Foundries

Is This New News, or Simply More of the Same?

by Steven Leibson

October 13, 2021

Stuart Pann, Senior Vice President of Intel’s Corporate Planning Group, published an interesting “opinion” piece titled “Expanding Intel’s Foundry Partnerships: A Critical Piece of IDM 2.0” in August. “IDM 2.0” is the term Intel uses to describe its use of process technologies from other foundries in addition to Intel’s home-grown process technologies. The term “IDM” means “integrated device manufacturer” and refers to a chipmaker that manufactures its own silicon die. … Read More →

Eeek! 100 Captivating Columns and Counting

by Max Maxfield

October 12, 2021

I have a friend called Bob (spelled the usual way and pronounced with a silent ‘q’). In fact, as fate would have it, I’ve been blessed with an abundance of Bobs (and that’s not something most people expect to hear themselves say on a daily basis).

In order to distinguish between members of this bodacious bunch of Bobs when I’m conversing with my wife (Gina the Gorgeous), I add a descriptor, such as “Carpenter Bob,” “Semiconductor Bob,” “Cyber Sleuth Bob,” “Marketing Wizard Bob,” “Bible Study Bob,” and “ … Read More → "Eeek! 100 Captivating Columns and Counting"

Samsung’s 50-Mpixel GN2 Image Sensor Sports Pro Camera Features

Could this Sensor Kill Standalone Cameras Completely?

by Steven Leibson

October 11, 2021

In August, at the Hot Chips 33 conference, held online this year thanks to COVID-19, Sooki Yoon described the Samsung 50-Mpixel GN2 image sensor, which the company announced earlier this year. This sensor is destined to be used in mobile phones such as the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra/Pro, according to Yoon’s presentation, but it creates a camera with features that shame those of most compact, mirrorless, and dSLR cameras.

Camera phones have … Read More → "Samsung’s 50-Mpixel GN2 Image Sensor Sports Pro Camera Features"

Meet the Tahiti ANC+ENC+WoV SoC Solution!

by Max Maxfield

October 7, 2021

Did the abundance of abbreviations with which the title of this column abounds cause you to pause for a moment and think, “Say, what?” Well, that’s just what I thought when the guys and gals at Synaptics introduced me to their AS33970 Tahiti System-on-Chip (SoC) device, but first…

Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) have come a long way since I was a lad. These days, of course, we think of HMIs in … Read More → "Meet the Tahiti ANC+ENC+WoV SoC Solution!"