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Author Archives: John Donovan
Weightless Weighs In
Now that PCs are old news and seemingly everyone on earth has a cell phone, the Next Big Thing promises to be machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, giving rise to the Internet of Things (IoT)—presumably a parallel universe to the Internet of … Continue reading
Posted in ARM, RF/Wireless, semiconductors, Spectrum, Wireless
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Mmm—Raspberry Pi!
Having had great fun playing with Beagle ($125) and Panda ($175) boards, I was happily surprised when my backordered Raspberry Pi suddenly arrived a few days ago. At $35 for a tricked out, credit-card size single-board computer, it was too … Continue reading
Bluetooth Low Energy Gets Smart
Bluetooth has long been one of those technologies we take for granted—it’s in all our wireless headsets and increasingly in hands-free audio in our cars. But until the emergence of Bluetooth Low Energy it had trouble breaking out of the … Continue reading
Kids FIRST
“To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders.”–FIRST mission statement At last month’s Renesas DevCon inventor Dean Kamen delivered an amusing and inspiring keynote—which … Continue reading
The Power Wall: Are we scaling it or is it just getting higher?
Cadence hosted a Low-Power Summit this month at which Jan Rabaey was the keynote speaker. Jan is the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor in the EECS department at U.C. Berkeley; Scientific Co-Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC); and … Continue reading
Mixed-Signals: Tribulations of Combining Analog and Digital Design
“Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”—Rudyard Kipling Kipling’s line goes back over 100 years but today it could just as well apply to digital and analog engineers. Engineering graduates for at least … Continue reading
Solar is only part of the solution
I’m a big fan of solar energy but also a realist, so I’ve long taken a skeptical view of claims that renewable energy sources—solar in particular—will obviate the need for more (hopefully fairly clean) fossil fuel power plants. A new … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Solar, Wind power
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Verifying the Cloud
So called “cloud computing” is the presumptive wave of the future, and not just to deliver software-as-a-service (SAAS), which will certainly challenge Microsoft’s business model. The ‘cloud’ is of course all those mainframes that Amazon, Google, Rackspace and others use … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud computing, EDA, Energy Efficiency
Tagged Cadence, EDA, energy-efficient design, verification
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Low Energy ANTs?
As we noted elsewhere Nordic Semi has just launched its nRF51 Series of multi-mode, ultra-low-power (ULP) wireless SoCs. The first two ICs to debut in the nRF51 Series are the nRF51822, a multi-protocol Bluetooth low energy/2.4GHz proprietary RF SoC, and … Continue reading
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