A couple of days ago as I pen these words, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone asking, “Can you advise me about what books a beginner can peruse for learning NASM?” To be honest, this was a bit of a tricky one, not least that I didn’t have a clue what NASM was, so I did what I usually do in a time of crisis, which … Read More → "Pulling Yourself up by Your Bootstraps"
Like the proverbial carrot-on-a-stick, FPGA-based acceleration has been right in front of our noses, just out of reach, for the better part of three decades. We move closer, and the prize moves farther away. Every few years, we feel some tangible progress, and perhaps cut the distance in half, but asymptotes can be unfriendly bedfellows. The old “reconfigurable computing” vision of FPGAs as replacements for CPUs … Read More → "Mipsology Brings “Zero Effort” Inference"
“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.” — Aeschylus
Ambiq has a new microcontroller. Of all the MCUs you could pick for your next IoT design… this is one of them.
If that sounds like damning with faint praise, I don’t mean it that way. It’s actually a very nice … Read More → "Ambiq Apollo4 Undercuts IoT Power"
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If you’re a parent with small children, you’ve probably taught them to “tie” their shoes by closing the Velcro straps. Someday, when they get older, maybe they’ll also learn how to tie shoelaces. You know, like their ancestors once did.
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Did you know that locusts can smell explosives? Did you also know that we can now control their brains to pinpoint to exactly what they are smelling? In this week’s podcast, we start things off with a closer look at how two teams of research scientists created a set of specialized cyborg bomb-sniffing locusts. We check out how these locusts are able to sense explosive chemicals in the … Read More → "Intelligent Senses: Cyborg Locusts and First Humanoid Robot with Intelligent Vision"
I think it’s fair to say that the majority of my friends in Embedded Space (where no one can hear you scream) tend to live on the microcontroller (MCU) side of the fence. To put this another way, relatively few of my chums don their “I’m an FPGA Designer” T-Shirts before heading off to work in the morning.
A few years ago as I pen … Read More → "Eeek Alors! Radiation Hardened eFPGA IP"
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