By Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation Light sensors are ubiquitous across a broad range of everyday products now. These systems and applications use reflected light with optical detection for...
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By Steve Leibson, Tensilica, Inc. Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life.
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By Grant Martin, Tensilica, Inc. The concept of using multiple processors or processor cores to build systems has really taken on a life of its own lately. The au courant term is “multicore” although that term means different things to different people, much like the ancient story of the blind men and the elephant.
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