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Agile Analog Makes the Analog Parts of SoC Design Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

I sometimes joke that I’d bend over backwards to be flexible and that I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous (I didn’t say they were good jokes). Now, following a recent excursion into wibbly-wobbly analog space (where no one can hear you scream), I’m tempted to say that I’d jump through hoops to be more agile.

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Intel’s Agilex 7 FPGAs Take Barcelona by Storm

As part of giving courses on digital logic simulation, along with presentations at technical conferences and guest lectures at universities, I’ve been fortunate enough to have at least sampled a tempting taster of many of the countries in Scandinavia and Western Europe, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Sad to relate, one of the countries on … Read More → "Intel’s Agilex 7 FPGAs Take Barcelona by Storm"

Helping Sandia National Laboratories Reach Nirvana

A few days ago as I pen these words, I was happily ensconced in my comfy command chair in the Pleasure Dome (my office) when I received an auto-generated email saying I’d been tagged in a post on LinkedIn. I immediately bounced over to take a look (ever hopeful to discover that a long-lost relative had bequeathed me a fortune) and was transported back in time by what I found there (cue “traveling back in time” music and visual effects). … Read More → "Helping Sandia National Laboratories Reach Nirvana"
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