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Luxury boats sink or swim by design

Italians are well accustomed to creating luxury products for world markets, from fashion to fast cars and, of course, food. It should come as no ...

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Is it true? Embedded MCU designers learning FPGAs?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been asking my microcontroller friends what they know about FPGAs; the results certainly surprised me…

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Can you handle an All Programmable Planet?

Actually, you don’t have much of a choice, because it’s here already!

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Gearing Up for DAC – Above RTL

This is the second in the series of what to see at DAC blogs. It includes listing about the demos that companies will be showing in the area of design ...

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Towards a formal, automated chip design monitoring system

Today’s projects are enormously complex. Just the silicon portion is now beset with complications like process variation, mushrooming design rules, ...

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I’m going to walk across America!

I’ve decided to walk from Central Park in New York to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco (metaphorically speaking).

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Some books that might be of interest for the virutal or non-virtual walker: A Walk Across America, ...

OMG – I want my own VGo robot avatar!

Is this all “pie-in-the-sky”? No – it’s happening here and now!

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It looks unappealing and it smells appalling, but…

I note that people seem to be giving my office a wide berth as they pass by my door.

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I should have figured that one out. You remind me of the older George Bush: "I do not like ...

Engineering Ferrari

Nothing but pasta could possibly be more representative of Italian sumptuousness than Ferrari, the sexy luxury race car brand that made its debut in ...

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Hey, HM, see Rick's links, above! He spoke to the technical teams involved... unfortunately, I only ...

What were they thinking: Chicken Tikka Masala

Who invented Chicken Tikka Masala, and while we are about it, where did the term curry come from...

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You cannot get more fusion than Pizza. Everyone claims they invented it in various forms over the ...

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Engineering Pop Culture!

How's this for adroit engineering?    Rick DeMeis
Algorithm detects drowsy driving.
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I've heard about lane departure prevention systems. Is this a part of such thing? Or is it just a ...

Slideshow: Team readies lunar rover for Google space contest    Sylvie Barak
A German team competing in Google's Lunar X-PRIZE competition plans to land its "Asimov" lunar rover on the surface of the Moon in 2014 in a bid to claim the contest's $20 million grand prize.
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@Duane- I have the same concern. It does not seem to me that landing this robot on the moon could ...

OMG – I want my own VGo robot avatar!    Clive Maxfield
Is this all “pie-in-the-sky”? No – it’s happening here and now!
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Clive, BTW, I _also_ use it from work to call home in the afternoons and interact with my kids -- ...

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Design Contests & Competitions

April Caption Contest: Vote for the winner    Naomi Price
Ben Hutt, mechanical engineer and blogger on iGEN, has narrowed 83 captions down to the top 8 ... now it's your turn to vote (right here!)
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Hacker: Define Yourself    Naomi Price
Just what is a hacker, anyway? Can you define this elusive term in a way that clarifies while also intriguing the kids?
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As defined by a hacker: hacker == innovator One who can take an existing design and reverse ...

May 2012 Caption Contest: Elvis    Naomi Price
The King is in the building and we're all shook up...
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This is definately NOT "where the girls are".

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The Engineering Life--Around the Web

What were they thinking: Chicken Tikka Masala    Brian Bailey
Who invented Chicken Tikka Masala, and while we are about it, where did the term curry come from...
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You cannot get more fusion than Pizza. Everyone claims they invented it in various forms over the ...

Best of the web – May 18    Brian Bailey
Blogs from around the web that made my “best of the web” list this week…
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Something smells    Carolyn Mathas
Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.
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Engineer’s Bookshelf

I’m going to walk across America!    Clive Maxfield
I’ve decided to walk from Central Park in New York to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco (metaphorically speaking).
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Some books that might be of interest for the virutal or non-virtual walker: A Walk Across America, ...

It looks unappealing and it smells appalling, but…    Clive Maxfield
I note that people seem to be giving my office a wide berth as they pass by my door.
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I should have figured that one out. You remind me of the older George Bush: "I do not like ...

Book Review: "The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes
"How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science"
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Hi Aubrey -- thanks for a great review -- you beat me to it -- I read this book last yea rbut never ...

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Social Mania

Gearing Up for DAC – Verification demos    Brian Bailey
This entry is the first in the what to see at DAC blogs. It includes listing about the demos that companies will be showing in the area of verification…
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SIG, Panel and more at DAC    Brian Bailey
These are the events that I am involved with at DAC this year. I hope to see you at one of them…
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Gary Smith: The man who cried 'ESL & virtual prototype' gets the last laugh    Mike Santarini
Many years ago and in a Galaxy that seems far far away, my buddy and journalism mentor Richard Goering teamed up to provide EDA coverage for EE Times...
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I also like the idea.

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Engineering Investigations

Multi-Platform Integration
Balloons, they seem like a simple product ... that’s what I use to think before I was asked to build a machine to make foil balloons.
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Yes, I totally agree with all your comments. On reflection of your comments I would like to clarify ...

Controller PCB problem solved
Problem with a controller PCB causes significant yield loss at an off-shore drive assembly plant and Ravinder is sent in to investigate...
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Yes, such a small die shrink should not matter. So I guess it was a pre-existing quality issue, ...

Wire we fixing this???    Dwight Bues
Dwight has a story from his academic years and work done at a company that "built just about anything."
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After that you should have told someone you found the wire stretcher.

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