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State Machine Compiler: A Hidden Treasure

Most any digital system will require state machines to control the operation and implement algorithms. State machines are easily enough to write manually, but because they tend to require much… Read more »

Trends in Mobile Imaging

Introduction There are four key elements to mobile imaging: Media Processing Display Technology Content Interface protocols between processor ICs and image controller IC’s Today’s Application Processors for Smartphone and Tablet… Read more »

The Law of Accelerating Returns for computing cycles

1943 – One ENIAC was ~300 Operations per Second (Ops) 2003 – no smartphones, no cloud, 500M PCs x 1Gops x 10% usage = 50*10E15 + BigIron 2013 – Cloud… Read more »

Benchmarking Mobile Storage

Introduction NAND Flash is the nonvolatile memory behind SSD, mobile computing devices and mobile appliances (such as phones and cameras). Flash technology is the mainstream storage solution for mobile –… Read more »

Social Media and Search Dominate Ad Tools

click to view article on MaretingCharts.com  Marketing professionals would pay a company an average of $107,500 to manage an integrated digital campaign. Increasing sales (31%) and ROI (28%) are the… Read more »

Internet Marketing

I am currently looking for a part-time client (~40hours/month). Contact me if you have a high tech business and need help with digital marketing. Inbound Marketing for High Tech View… Read more »

The future of chip to chip communications is high speed SerDes.

In Internet network infrastructure data transport using TCP/IP or RTP is implemented at layers 2 & 1 with egress packet conversion and VCSELs. Packet processors for ingress (“header shreaders”) manage… Read more »

Is Your B2E Website Working?

The terms B2C (Business to Consumer) and B2B (Business to Business) are well known, and there is even a B2E (Business to Employee). But my definition of B2E is Business… Read more »

NAND Flash – Multipurpose Memory Goes Mainstream

NAND Flash memory is set to pass DRAM in the semiconductor. Apple is the primary driver and Apple products will consume the bulk of tablet and smartphone NAND ICs. At… Read more »

Smartphones and Tablets Thirst for Bandwidth

The explosive growth in portable devices over the past decade has left manufactures in a quandary over how to add memory to their products that meet several criteria: • High… Read more »