New Insight and Awareness into IoT Security with Cyber Trust Mark

IoT security is the name of the game this week! My podcast guest is Sharon Hagi, Chief Security Officer of Silicon Labs. Sharon and I chat about the new cybersecurity labeling program called Cyber Trust Mark – the details of this program and the motivation behind its development. We also discuss the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Product Security Working Group and how it</ … Read More → "New Insight and Awareness into IoT Security with Cyber Trust Mark"

Speeding AI and HPC Workloads with Composable Memory and Hardware Compression / Decompression Acceleration

Sometimes I try to capture a column’s intent in a short, snappy title using pithy prose, as it were. I might attempt an aphoristic or epigrammatic turn of phrase while trying not to appear gnomic (which—as we now see—is something I reserve for my opening sentence).

In this case, however, my Speeding AI and HPC Workloads with Composable Memory … Read More → "Speeding AI and HPC Workloads with Composable Memory and Hardware Compression / Decompression Acceleration"

Altera announces that Agilex 3 FPGAs are in production and are ready for ordering, immediately

At the recent Embedded World held in Nuremberg, Altera made an announcement and wants you to know two things: Agilex 3 FPGAs are now in production, and you can order them now. Altera also announced development support for Agilex 3 FPGAs (along with Agilex 5 E-series FPGAs and MAX10 programmable logic devices) through a no-cost Quartus license, and development boards from iWave and Terasic. The company will continue to offer … Read More → "Altera announces that Agilex 3 FPGAs are in production and are ready for ordering, immediately"

A Motion-Powered Revolution: WePower Energy Harvesting Technology

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Arduino Portenta Environmental Monitoring Bundle

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Join Libby and Demo in this episode of “Libby’s Lab” as they explore the Arduino Portenta Environmental Monitoring Bundle, available at Mouser.com! This bundle is perfect for engineers requiring environmental data such as temperature, humidity, and pressure. Designed for ease of use, the bundle is great for IoT, smart home, and industrial devices, and it includes WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Keep your circuits charged and your ideas sparking!

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discussion
Posted on Mar 19 at 3:37pm by hackforsac
Great observation, compression/ decompression can certainly reduce overall latency and memory access times by increasing hit rates in the cache! Could you expand on your other question about similar content?
Posted on Mar 19 at 9:02am by Max Maxfield
Hi there -- thanks for your comment -- I'll ask the folks at Rambus and ZeroPoint to respond -- Max
Posted on Mar 18 at 4:48pm by Trackside
Localised compression/decompression can/could increase memory access speed too. ... Now wondering if cache memory can store eg ranges where the contents are similar, eg 000200..+1ff, all storing c001?? Split the range with a value, and it changes to two ranges and a value, or some other compression method. It ...
Posted on Mar 14 at 7:56am by Max Maxfield
It all depends -- which lumps? On the outside of what? LOL
Posted on Mar 14 at 7:55am by Max Maxfield
Nope -- all the capacitors are underneath the card -- I'm informed that the big brown boxes represent DC-DC converters and the small brown boxes represent inductors -- or maybe it's the other way round -- see this complementary/related column I wrote a month ago -- they also talk ...
Posted on Mar 14 at 4:52am by DaveN
Or did you mean the lumps on the outside???
Posted on Mar 14 at 4:51am by DaveN
Max! Capacitors everywhere (brown), not inductors, right? Hope you are well, See ya, Dave
Posted on Mar 13 at 2:54pm by Max Maxfield
We used to use 2000A at 5V to power an entire mainframe back in the day (if that day was in 1980), and we thought we were cool (and hot at the same time).
Posted on Mar 13 at 9:53am by RedBarnDesigner
People casually throw around words like "awesome" - but this truly is. That is a LOT of Watts per square inch - let's face it - that's a lot of Watts for anyone's tea-party! Ouch, triple ouch. (And I mean that most sincerely!) Thanks Max - that really is eye-watering ...
Posted on Mar 11 at 8:59am by Max Maxfield
To what "materials PDF" are you referring?
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