Thus far, if the truth be told, I’ve had mixed experiences with large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as personified by ChatGPT. I started, as many people do, by asking ChatGPT questions about things I knew nothing about, receiving responses that appeared to be reasonably impressive.
The reason for my emphasizing the word “appeared” in the previous … Read More → "From Thought to Circuit in Record Time with AI"
Good Grief! It’s happened again! I must have blinked, or sneezed, or… hmm… enjoyed a bodacious bowl of beans (let us say), only to find another hunky chunk of time has zipped past under my nose (no pun intended), leaving me dazed and confused in the here and now.
Just to set the scene, deep in the mist of time we used … Read More → "Zeke and His Chums Are Poised to Chat with the ISS"
I just got off a video conference call with a company I cannot name that’s developed a technology I cannot discuss to power a product I am forbidden to talk about at this time. But I fear I’ve said too much. Suffice it to say that this product is going to enable a new generation of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms in … Read More → "Eeek! GenAI-Powered Design and Verification EDA Tools"
I feel like an old fool (but where are we going to find one at this time of the day?). Almost everything I hear on the technology front these days causes me to have a knee-jerk reaction along the lines of, “Things have certainly changed since those far-off days when I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, newly-minted engineer!”
As I’ve mentioned before, I … Read More → "Want Automated, Certification-Level RISC-V Verification Coverage?"
I’m still chafing under the impositions imposed by the punctuation police. I speak of those who don the undergarments of authority and stride the corridors of power. Those despicable despots who dictate I can no longer terminate the titles to my columns with exclamation marks, all the time muttering inscrutable incantations to their SEO gods. Fortunately, I’m not bitter. …
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As we discussed in the initial installment of this 2-part extravaganza, some people pursue a predictable path on their way to engineer-hood (where “-hood” comes from the Middle English “-hode,” which itself comes from the Old English “-hād,” meaning “state of being”). Others, like your humble narrator, end up taking a more circuitous route, which may involve Lady Luck finagling the dice in their favor (I … Read More → "There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 2)"