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Super Outraged over Uber Data Sharing

Super Outraged over Uber Data Sharing
by Roger C. Lanctot on 08-09-2020 at 10:00 am

Super Outraged over Uber Data Sharing

Reuters reports that Uber has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19. Now Uber, one of the primary vectors spreading the disease with hundreds of thousands of masked drivers worldwide guiding shared

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KLAC Solid QTR and Guide With No China Worries

KLAC Solid QTR and Guide With No China Worries
by Robert Maire on 08-09-2020 at 8:00 am

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KLA reports excellent June & Better Sept Guide-
Orbotech Diversification Helps provide growth-
Mix is perfect-China working fine-
Foundry is solid-

Solid execution and Financials
KLAC reported $1.46B in revenues and $2.73 Non GAAP with gross margins of 60.3%. That is versus expectations of $1.42B and EPS of $2.41…a… Read More


WEBINAR: Security Verification of Root of Trust for Xilinx

WEBINAR: Security Verification of Root of Trust for Xilinx
by Bernard Murphy on 08-07-2020 at 6:00 am

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Tortuga Logic is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, August 18th from 12 to 1PM PDT, in which Xilinx will present their experiences in using the Tortuga Logic Radix-S and Radix-M products for security verification of root of trust in their advanced SoC FPGAs. REGISTER HERE to attend the webinar.

SECURITY CHALLENGES
In general security… Read More


HCL Webinar Series – HCL VersionVault Delivers Version Control and More

HCL Webinar Series – HCL VersionVault Delivers Version Control and More
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-06-2020 at 10:00 am

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HCL is an interesting organization. You may know them as an Indian company that provides software and hardware services.  At about $10B US and over 110,000 employees working around the world, they are indeed a force in the industry. They’ve also created a software company called HCL Software that develops tools and technologies… Read More


Murphy’s Law vs Moore’s Law: How Intel Lost its Dominance in the Computer Industry

Murphy’s Law vs Moore’s Law: How Intel Lost its Dominance in the Computer Industry
by Michael Bruck on 08-06-2020 at 6:00 am

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Last week, Intel announced its second-quarter financial results which easily beat the analysts’ consensus expectations by a handsome margin. Yet the stock price plummeted by over 16% right after the earnings call with management. Seven analysts downgraded the stock to a sell and the common theme on all the downgrades was that… Read More


How Samtec Puts the Customer First

How Samtec Puts the Customer First
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-05-2020 at 10:00 am

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An exceptional customer experience starts before the sale. Successful companies realize it never ends. Dedicated post-sales support and a robust ecosystem for aftermarket product extensions are ingredients that tend to delight the customer. These comments are relevant in the consumer sector, but they apply to high tech as… Read More


Structural CDC Analysis Signoff? Think Again.

Structural CDC Analysis Signoff? Think Again.
by Bernard Murphy on 08-05-2020 at 6:00 am

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Talking not so long ago to a friend from my Atrenta days, I learned that the great majority of design teams still run purely structural CDC analysis. You should sure asynchronous clock domains are suitably represented in the SDC, find all places where data crosses between those domains that require a synchronizer, gray-coded FIFO… Read More


All-In-One Extreme Edge with Full Software Flow

All-In-One Extreme Edge with Full Software Flow
by Bernard Murphy on 08-04-2020 at 2:00 pm

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What do you do next when you’ve already introduced an all-in-one extreme edge device, supporting AI and capable of running at ultra-low power, even harvested power? You add a software flow to support solution development and connectivity to the major clouds. For Eta Compute, their TENSAI flow.

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Cadence on Automotive Safety: Without Security, There is no Safety

Cadence on Automotive Safety: Without Security, There is no Safety
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-04-2020 at 10:00 am

Attack vectors and EDA countermeasures

One of the Designer Track at this year’s DAC focused on the popular topic of automotive electronics.  The title was particularly on-point, The Modern Automobile: A Safety and Security “Hot Zone”. The session was chaired by Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.

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Combining AI and Advanced Signal Processing on the Same Device

Combining AI and Advanced Signal Processing on the Same Device
by Lauro Rizzatti on 08-04-2020 at 6:00 am

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A lot has been written and even more spoken about artificial intelligence (AI) and its uses. Case in point, the use of AI to make autonomous vehicles (AV) a reality. But, surprisingly, not much is discussed on pre-processing the inputs feeding AI algorithms. Understanding how input signals are generated, pre-processed and used… Read More