Ever since I started reading science fiction as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed young lad, I was exposed to the concept of robots that could “think” in that they could perceive the world around them and respond accordingly.
I was particularly impressed by the robots in Isaac Asimov’s stories in books like Read More → "Who Needs a Network-on-Chip (NoC)? Everyone!"
I remember reading a quote by a famous actor whose name I no longer recall (that’s how famous they were). It might have been Errol Flynn. It might have been Harrison Ford. It might have been someone else completely. The actual person isn’t important, it’s what they said that stuck in my mind. …
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When RISC-V International’s chairman of the board Krste Asanović took the stage to report on the state of the RISC-V union at last month’s RISC-V Summit, he mouthed the phrase that’s always said by the president of the United States when reporting the country’s state of the union: “The state of the union is strong.” Later in his talk, Asanović said the same thing, but in a much more assertive way: “All your cores are belong to us.” …
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This week my Fish Fry podcast is two parts open source, one part FT8, and one part ham radio! My guest is Colby Gilbert from RadioStack and we dig into the details of Maverick-603 – the first affordable, FT8 receiver with an open source RF chip designed and fabricated using open source chip tools! Also this week, I investigate a new crash avoidance sensor inspired by insects.
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I love learning how logic designers of the past solved tricky problems with innovative solutions. The more I delve into this sort of thing, the more I say to myself, “Wow! I would never have thought of that!” A great example is binary coded decimal (BCD) because there’s a lot more to this topic than one might, at first, suppose.
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