Nov 6 2009 11:30AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |
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Yesterday, I moderated a panel on green chip design in Newport Beach at the 7^th International SOC Conference. Chances are you didn’t see or hear any of it because there were only 100 people at this conference in total. That’s really too bad because we had a great set of panelists:

1. Michel Laurence co-founded Octasic, which is a Montreal specialist in echo cancellation and has mastered the art of self-clocking or self-timed (asynchronous) logic design.
2. Jauher Zaidi, CEO, PalmChip Corporation, which was in the chip-design business but has now spun off those activities to focus more on SOC platform software.
3. Alan Ruberg, SPMT architect for SPMT, The Serial Port Memory Technology consortium, which is developing a high-performance, low-power, next-generation memory interface to replace the DDR families

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Nov 5 2009 11:39AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |
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A few weeks back, I wrote about my positive experience with in-flight WiFi using the Gogo service on American Airlines. Want to try it yourself? For free? Use this code: 2283510636uyc. Good for one free in-flight WiFi session.

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Nov 2 2009 10:14AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |
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The title for this blog is “borrowed” from a Mark Twain story and the content is borrowed—once more—from my favorite Oz video celebrity engineer, David Jones, who does the EE Video blog. In our latest episode, David rants about Microchip’s new PICkit 3 development tool.

 

 

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Nov 1 2009 8:51AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (8) |
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After 40 years of working on phase-change memory (PCM), researchers announced...another incremental step towards creating devices that can compete with the current king of the non-volatile memory hill: Flash EEPROM. Certainly, there are PCM devices on the market now (see this blog and this one). However Flash memory, already the cost/bit memory leader by far, has threatened to leave all other memory technologies far, far in the dust as it evolves from single-layer cells (SLC) to multi-layer cells (MLC). But there’s trouble visible on the far horizon for Flash memory. The number of electrons stored in a Flash cell drops with each new lithography node and we w...Read More

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Oct 28 2009 8:53PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |
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I’ve just started to write a blog for AgigA Tech, a maker of non-volatile memory subsystems for embedded systems and servers. Today, I posted a fun blog entry with a bunch of photos of leaking batteries destroying the equipment in which they’re installed. Seemed like a good Halloween treat, and a reminder to check your batteries and your assumptions about them. You’ll find the post here. My good friend and AgigA Tech CEO Ron Sartore calls the photos absolutely “Joule-ish.” Funny, they don’t look Joulish to me.

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