Seeing the new analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) IP being touted around by the FPGA vendors got me wondering what is behind all this. It all boil ...
Recently, I attended Cadence-Live in Bangalore to find out more about the latest and greatest in verification technologies. As expected, many of th ...
For several years now, my girlfriend and I have been growing restless. We live in Colorado in the US, you see, and yearn for a life in the mountain ...
It was the early 1970s when I was sent overseas with three impressively sized racks of equipment controlled by a Honeywell H316 computer. Along wit ...
There is a saying that the cobbler's children have no shoes. It seems equally true that the engineer's gadgets are all broken. The engineer isn't a ...
A year or so ago, my Playstation 3 bit the dust (no, this story isn't about it). For a while, the usual band-aid fix seemed to work just fine: Heat ...
About a year ago now, my Playstation 3 gave up the ghost (no, this story isn't about it). For a while, the usual band-aid fix seemed to work just f ...
In the late 1970s when I was still in college, I worked for a while as a broadcast engineer at a local TV station. Working a weekend sign-off shift ...
In this story, I will tell how I solved an intermittent RAM semiconductor memory problem using music. In 1978, I met three brothers who owned a lar ...
It was an early autumn afternoon when I first saw her. It was my third year of engineering school, and what looked like the final year of her hell. ...
In the 1980s, I worked for a computer company that built multi-user time-shared computers. In those days, a system consisted of several 10"x12" cir ...
Engineering is central to my relationship with my wife. That's becuase I am continually fixing everything, a trait that won her over on only our se ...
My relationship with my wife is centred on engineering. That's becuase I am continually fixing everything, a trait that won her over on only our se ...