Until relatively recently, robots have been kept in cages. This isn’t to stop them from getting out (although I have a niggling notion that day may come)—rather, to prevent humans from getting in. I’m thinking of honking big industrial robots in facilities like automobile factories.
While members of this class of robots are awesomely good at what they do (picking … Read More → "The Rise of the Robots (Cobots)"
I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t know as much about the topic of test and measurement (T&M) as perhaps I should. My only excuse is that there’s so much to learn and I am a bear of little brain (and my little bear brain is pretty much full).
There are lots of things I’ve not done … Read More → "Measuring Picovolts and Femtoamps"
In 1973, the Miller Brewing Company launched the “lite” beer revolution with an ad campaign that proclaimed “Tastes great. Less filling.” The company’s ads backed up the slogan by showing very masculine athletes including Ray Nitschke, Ben Davidson, Bubba Smith, and John Madden drinking (or at least holding) glasses of the lite beer, to make it look more manly. Going back a bit earlier, the Peter Paul … Read More → "ST’s newest serial EEPROMs support both byte and page access"
AMD has made another play in the poker game for RF-capable FPGAs against Altera. AMD’s opening ante, actually Xilinx’s opening ante, was the introduction in early 2017 of the first RFSoC, based on the existing Zynq UltraScale+ SoC. Altera’s counter, in late 2022 back when Altera was still Intel, was to introduce the Agilex 9 Direct-RF series of FPGAs. The two companies have taken different manufacturing approaches … Read More → "AMD ups the ante in the RF-enabled FPGA poker game with the Versal RF family"
