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All You Need Is Love
Hi John,
You should be receiving your MAX V CPLD Development Kit in a couple weeks.
Thanks again for listening!
-Amelia
posted by amelia on 02/22/12 at 2:52 PM
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Gunze's new touchscreen tech knows who's touching it
Link's fixed!
posted by LauraDomela on 02/22/12 at 11:28 AM
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Real-World Issues at 28nm
Are there other issues that you're anticipating at 28 nm?
posted by bmoyer on 02/22/12 at 10:54 AM
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Tabula Taps Intel
Wow, we've got 3D FPGAs fabricated on 3D transistors! Does that make some kind of 9D programmable logic tesseract?
What do you think about Intel's entry into the merchant fab business, and how do you think it will affect the competition in the FPGA ...
posted by kevin on 02/21/12 at 5:59 PM
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DesignCon Take 2
Even a teenager on a shoestring budget could be an app customer : the strength is in numbers! As long as app developers continue to release shiny,cheap,catchy apps simple to use , even for elder people , things will go ever better . They'll catch all the ...
posted by caccolillou on 02/17/12 at 1:53 AM
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The Three Laws of Robotics
Oh, sorry, and another favorite: you're in the full-screen throes of the climax of a movie on Netflix, and suddenly McAfee pops up and says, "I've updated your anti-virus stuffs. Should I restart now?"
Really?
You did create this as a bitch-zone thr...
posted by bmoyer on 02/16/12 at 12:33 PM
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Connecting the Dots
Hi Brian,
Thank you for your post. Your name and address have been received by Altera and you should be getting your kit any day now!
Thanks again! Amelia
posted by amelia on 02/15/12 at 1:03 PM
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Finding hidden GPS trackers?
Maybe placing the car in an area with no network coverage , the GSM will periodically try to acquire the link with the base station , so a femtocell like these:
http://www.ipaccess.com/
could do the job , informing you of its presence .
I'm not sur...
posted by caccolillou on 02/15/12 at 1:41 AM
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They Want Your Brains
"In addition, according to the press release, EDA companies actually increased their total number of employees by over 2%."
How much of this headcount was added in the US? The impression I get from folks still working in EDA is that most of the new he...
posted by UncleOxidant on 02/14/12 at 2:11 PM
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Does the World Need a New Microcontroller Family?
I agree completely with your conclusions. The ARM community is taking over the embedded world by storm. Large semiconductor manufacturers, like Texas Instruments, for example, are standardizing on ARM, which results in a fertile environment for a stronger...
posted by catalino65 on 02/13/12 at 9:33 PM
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Someone to Take the Lead
Have you worked for a start-up that had no lead customer? Did it work? If so, what was the key?
posted by bmoyer on 02/13/12 at 5:19 PM
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Open vs. Closed: A Design Dilemma
I consider that an embedded solution is the state of the art then, i.e., when you validate every feature (and the whole thing) and send it to the customer - here begins the issues. So even if you use an Open Design you have to close it at that exact momen...
posted by RicardoMotta on 02/08/12 at 7:24 PM
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All the Signal Integrity You Can Shake A Stick At
Good to see you at DesignCon, Amelia. Thanks for my second Fish Fry interview! I'm giving you credit for all the PCB PDN Analysis demos we were asked to do in the Cadence booth!
posted by bgriffin on 02/08/12 at 12:46 PM
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The Perils of Performance
This week, we took a look at Mentor's latest version of HyperLynx and how it helps with signal integrity, power distribution network analysis, 3D via modeling, and thermal issues.
Are you starting to face some of these issues in your FPGA-based board d...
posted by kevin on 02/07/12 at 8:08 PM
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New Chalk Talk - Integrated Power and System Management
No matter what your design is, you are probably going to have to deal with power and system management issues at some point. In this Chalk Talk, I check out why an integrated system a...
posted by amelia on 02/07/12 at 5:25 PM
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A New Crop of Wafer Inspection Tools
Do you think we'll ever get to the point where we're printing features smaller than we can automatically inspect?
posted by bmoyer on 02/06/12 at 2:17 PM
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Customs and immigration form filled out by Apollo 11 astronauts upon returning from the Moon
This is Parazynski's second consecutive season on Everest. Last year, he was in striking distance of he summit when a back injury forced him to turn back and hobble down the mountain. Thanks to some surgery and a rigorous exercise regimen, he is in great ...
posted by alice3372 on 02/04/12 at 2:22 AM
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Finding hidden GPS trackers?
Hi,
Does anybody have any hints on methods of finding hidden GPS trackers placed on cars without the owners consent? These pesky little things are available all over the internet for small money, and are fast becoming quite a nuisance.
Presumably the ...
posted by johnos999 on 02/03/12 at 9:57 PM
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The Importance of Being Modular
Kevin,
Fair enough. For what it's worth, there was an open invitation to multiple FPGA companies including some active recruitment efforts.
You know what they say - you can bring the horse to the water ... 
Raj
posted by RajSeelam on 02/02/12 at 3:19 PM
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Bridging the Gap
Hi Amelia,
I would really like this kit and as this is the fun week I would like to use it to make a fully synchronous PinBall machine with a cycle accurate switching of multiple pins at the same time. Also to increase my luck I did send you a invitatio...
posted by rosinkrans on 02/02/12 at 12:40 PM
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The PC In Your Ear
How times have changed. Back in the day the test for PC compatibility/recognition was "Does it run MS/DOS?" and "Will it run Flight Simulator/Visicalc?"...
posted by SupremeSpod on 02/02/12 at 1:40 AM
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A Passive Magic Wand
Do you see a use for this kind of technology in what you do? Or, perhaps, are you a skeptic?
posted by bmoyer on 01/30/12 at 11:30 AM
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Helicopter drone flies HD camera through a snowstorm
Yeah yeah yeah, I know...I was born in Alaska. "Storm" is one of those relative terms. But yes, cool RC machine for sure. 
posted by LauraDomela on 01/27/12 at 10:15 PM
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After software, what's next?
During six-plus decades of adherence to the Turing paradigm, the computer field has reaped the benefits of ever- faster and -denser (and -reliable) hardware. Over the same span of decades, the creation and maintenance of software hasn’t gotten any easier ...
posted by CharlieM on 01/27/12 at 2:53 PM