Well, this is can be quite a shock and no mistake. I've been happily toddling along through life under the impression that the way in which I charge my iPad will prolong the life and efficiency of its battery. Now, however, it seems that my habits may be having the opposite effect (sad face). ......

I saw something I never expected to see on the way home a few evenings ago -- a set of traffic lights that had failed with all of them showing green.   By the time I arrived at the junction in question, there were police cars with their lights flashing all over the place, policemen standin......

Until about a decade ago, thermal energy was considered almost entirely as an analogue, bulk phenomena. Regardless of whether the heat flux was conducted or radiated, the flux was related to the temperature difference between a hot object and a colder environment. Convective heat transfer was simp......

The "Things" in our world are becoming increasingly complicated, and the failure modes a whole lot more interesting ("interesting" as in the old curse, "may you live in interesting times"). In the world of IoT, what is fixing broken things going to be like? Let's ......

All data streams experience jitter, some of which is statistically random, so that means we must characterize it with statistics. In jitter analysis, random jitter (RJ) is often described as having a Gaussian distribution.   RJ is typically quantified as an rms value equal to σ of th......

Recently, I finished reading Richard J. Aldrich's GCHQ: The uncensored story of Britain's most sensitive intelligence agency. The Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's equivalent of the NSA, is a direct descendant of Bletchley Park, where the British decoded German me......

Estimating likely power consumption of a piece of silicon before building it is necessarily an approximate endeavor -- not quite divining the future by poking through chicken bones, but certainly laden with assumptions and approximations. Unfortunately, early estimates are critical to the economic......

Max Maxfield recently offered this challenge: "I still cannot wrap my brain around how mirrors work -- from simple things like why is the angle of incidence equal to the angle of reflection, all the way up to how the photons 'bounce' off the atoms forming the mirror without being scat......

In the latter part of the previous instalment of this series, we were talking about the number of IP companies being bought by EDA companies. We continue to explore the relationship between IP developers and EDA companies here. Taking part in today's discussion are Warren Savage, CEO of IPextr......

The previous part of this experts' roundtable tackled the advantages EDA companies may have in developing and licensing IP. Today we turn our attention to IP integration issues. Taking part in today's discussion are: Mike Gianfagna, vice president of corporate marketing at Atrenta; Warren ......