From a consumer viewpoint I want the longest battery life from my electronic devices: iPad tablet, Galaxy Note 4 smart phone, Garmin Edge 820 bike computer, and Amazon Kindle book reader. In September I blogged about RTL Design Restructuring and how it could help achieve lower power, and this month I’m looking forward to … Read More
CTO Interview with Sirish Munipalli of Moores Lab AISirish Munipalli is Co-Founder and CTO of Moores…Read More
What DARPA Taught Me About Building Trust into SiliconBy Sajeed Mohammad The most memorable slide I…Read More
Delivering Silicon Systems Through AI Disruption, Part 1: Writing the ScoreScore: the written music for an orchestra, with…Read More
A Migration Feasibility Study Can Turn an Uncertain Re-Design into a Measurable Engineering ProjectMoving semiconductor IP to a new process technology…Read More
Teradyne Unveils Magnum E2 for the Next Wave of AI MemoryTeradyne has announced Magnum E2, a memory test…Read MoreSoitec – Enabling the FDSOI Revolution
Recently I published two blogs on Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FDSOI) and the potential the technology shows for a variety of low power and wireless applications. In order to produce FDSOI devices, the device layer has to be thin enough to ensure the device is fully depleted and ideally the buried oxide has to be thin enough… Read More
Phish Finding
I wrote recently on the biggest hole in security – us. While sophisticated hacks on hardware and software make for good technology reading, fooling users into opening the front door remains one of the easiest and lowest cost ways for evil-doers to break into our systems. And one of the more popular ways to fool us is phishing in all … Read More
There is more than C to worry about
We periodically see that “software ate the world” line – I’m pretty sure I’ve used it a couple times myself. The fact is, software doesn’t run itself; never has, never will. Somewhere there has to be an underlying computer. First it was on beads, then in gears, then in tubes.… Read More
Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security
Since the United States is such a large market for products and services from nearly all technology innovations, a patent counting for growth in patenting over a period of times in the US can be a good measuring tool for monitoring the evolution of technology innovations. Following figure shows the growth trends for the artificial… Read More
CEO Interview: Charlie Janac of Arteris
When Charlie Janac talks, people listen, absolutely. Charlie’s 30 year career spans EDA, IP, semiconductor equipment, nano-technology, and venture capital. For the last 11 years he has been CEO of interconnect IP provider Arteris who invented the industry’s first commercial network on chip (NoC) SoC interconnect IP… Read More
Vidyo Aims To Disrupt Video Banking After Seeing Success In Healthcare And Defense
Commercial video services are a funny thing- they seem to go through ebbs and flows of industry excitement. One day it seems boring and the next thing you see is live video from a drone, Google releasing Duo, a patient traveling on a dogsled to receive care from a doctor a 1,000 miles away… and then everyone gets excited again. I worked… Read More
The Secret Plans of Mark Rosekind & Donald Trump
Donald Trump says he has a secret plan for defeating ISIS in Syria, but says it would be self-defeating to share that plan with the American electorate and, presumably, ISIS itself. Administrator Mark Rosekind says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a plan for reducing highway fatalities to zero in the U.S.,… Read More
5 Best Practices For Developing Secure IoT Solutions
Security is often an afterthought when developing IoT solutions. Security features are commonly cut from initial designs to accommodate additional device functionality. However, security needs to play a central role in IoT projects if we are to secure the Internet of Things.
The process of developing secure IoT solutions was… Read More
Adding DSP hardware shrinks energy for MCU core
ARM’s Cortex-M4 processor core represented quite a breakthrough in digital signal controller technology when launched in 2010. Adding a single-cycle multiplier and SIMD instructions enabled basic DSP algorithms while retaining the low power benefits of an MCU. New technology circa 2016 – embedded programmable logic – can… Read More


Rethinking Phase Jitter: An Algorithmic Approach to Signal Integrity