On the one hand, the overly enthusiastic predictions for fully autonomous automobiles have, thus far, fallen somewhat behind schedule (sad face). On the other hand, it now looks like we will see fully autonomous trucks barreling down our interstate highways circa 2027 (happy face).
The idea of autonomous automobiles has been around for longer than most people might think. For example, the concept of … Read More → "Autonomous Trucks are Trucking Our Way!"
While Altera and AMD continue to hammer away at the higher end of the FPGA spectrum – for example, see “AMD ups the ante in the RF-enabled FPGA poker game with the Versal RF family” – Lattice Semiconductor’s recent introduction of the Nexus 2 FPGA platform reconfirms the company’s commitment to smaller FPGA devices. Although the Nexus 2 platform employs … Read More → "Lattice Semiconductor’s Nexus 2 platform brings significant performance benefits to low-end FPGAs"
Until relatively recently, robots have been kept in cages. This isn’t to stop them from getting out (although I have a niggling notion that day may come)—rather, to prevent humans from getting in. I’m thinking of honking big industrial robots in facilities like automobile factories.
While members of this class of robots are awesomely good at what they do (picking … Read More → "The Rise of the Robots (Cobots)"
Device security and cryptography takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! My guest is Shahram Mossayebi, Founder & CEO at Crypto Quantique. Shahram and I chat about how Shahram’s expertise in academia and IoT security vulnerabilities encouraged the creation of Crypto Quantique, the variety of device … Read More → "Chip to Cloud Security and Thwarting Future Adversaries: How Crypto Quantique is Changing the IoT Security Landscape"
I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t know as much about the topic of test and measurement (T&M) as perhaps I should. My only excuse is that there’s so much to learn and I am a bear of little brain (and my little bear brain is pretty much full).
There are lots of things I’ve not done … Read More → "Measuring Picovolts and Femtoamps"
In 1973, the Miller Brewing Company launched the “lite” beer revolution with an ad campaign that proclaimed “Tastes great. Less filling.” The company’s ads backed up the slogan by showing very masculine athletes including Ray Nitschke, Ben Davidson, Bubba Smith, and John Madden drinking (or at least holding) glasses of the lite beer, to make it look more manly. Going back a bit earlier, the Peter Paul … Read More → "ST’s newest serial EEPROMs support both byte and page access"
