Thus far, if the truth be told, I’ve had mixed experiences with large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as personified by ChatGPT. I started, as many people do, by asking ChatGPT questions about things I knew nothing about, receiving responses that appeared to be reasonably impressive.
The reason for my emphasizing the word “appeared” in the previous … Read More → "From Thought to Circuit in Record Time with AI"
Good Grief! It’s happened again! I must have blinked, or sneezed, or… hmm… enjoyed a bodacious bowl of beans (let us say), only to find another hunky chunk of time has zipped past under my nose (no pun intended), leaving me dazed and confused in the here and now.
Just to set the scene, deep in the mist of time we used … Read More → "Zeke and His Chums Are Poised to Chat with the ISS"
NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, has finally published a trio of new standards for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in an attempt to get ahead of the coming cryptography crisis that’s forecast for the time when quantum computers get powerful enough to crack current RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) public-key encryption standards. Although the RSA algorithm was published in 1977 and predates the Internet by a decade or … Read More → "NIST Issues New Quantum Crypto Standards for Cyberspace"
This week my guest is Dr. Houman Zarrinkoub – Principal Product Manager of Wireless Communications at MathWorks. Houman and I investigate why the adoption of AI native technologies is necessary for the development of next-generation wireless standards, the steps involved in designing and integrating an AI-native wireless system and the common hurdles that engineers face when integrating AI into their wireless system design … Read More → "Building the Next Generation of Wireless Systems with AI-Native Technologies"
I’ve often been moved to say that I don’t have many regrets in my life. I even used to believe this myself, right up until I read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Now I’m discovering regrets I never even knew I had. Although this may not … Read More → "New PSoC Brains for Motor and Power Applications"
If you’ve designed electronic systems for a while, or if you’ve repaired vintage electronic equipment, no doubt you’ve run into the fascinating term “unobtainium.” Here’s Wikipedia’s definition of the term:
“Unobtainium originally referred to materials that do not exist at all, but can also be used to describe real materials that are unavailable due to extreme rarity or … Read More → "Unobtainium is where you find it: What happens when you can’t source an old IC?"
