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"
AMD has made another play in the poker game for RF-capable FPGAs against Altera. AMD’s opening ante, actually Xilinx’s opening ante, was the introduction in early 2017 of the first RFSoC, based on the existing Zynq UltraScale+ SoC. Altera’s counter, in late 2022 back when Altera was still Intel, was to introduce the Agilex 9 Direct-RF series of FPGAs. The two companies have taken different manufacturing approaches … Read More → "AMD ups the ante in the RF-enabled FPGA poker game with the Versal RF family"
I’m afraid I’m in a techno-dweeby mood at this moment in time. My head is filled with thoughts that are bouncing around my noggin like demented ping pong balls. Speaking of which, do you remember my 12×12 ping pong ball display?
If so, then—as you may recall—the last thing I did with this bodacious beauty was to implement a Read More → "This One’s for the Techno-Dweebs"
It’s a new year and New Year’s resolutions may be on your mind. You’ll find some helpful hints on making resolutions, or just getting your career into gear, in Steve Sanghi’s new book, “Ask Steve: Everyday business advice from a successful CEO.” Sanghi based his new book on a decade’s worth of advice columns he wrote for the “Arizona Republic” newspaper from 2004 … Read More → "Ask Steve: Career and management advice from the former CEO of Microchip"
Almost anyone involved in developing new products today wants those products to have an artificial intelligence (AI) component [for the purposes of this column we will take AI to embrace machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)]. The problem is that AI is still very new in the scheme of things—everyone has heard about it, almost everybody uses it, but relatively few people know how to … Read More → "One More Step on the Path to AIIE (AI-In-Everything)"
