I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to feel like I need to run twice as fast just to keep up with everything that’s happening in AI space (where no one can hear you scream). No sooner do I wra…

Things were different back in the early part of the 20th century. There was a much stronger do-it-yourself culture, with people routinely building and repairing things themselves. It was an age of …

As I’ve mentioned in previous pieces, I’m constantly amazed by my ongoing discoveries of all the things I don’t know, and that’s just in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…

To celebrate the 700th episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry, we’re diving big into the world of microscopic tech! Tune in to discover light-powered microbots capable of hunting down bacteria, innova…

It just struck me that—although we don’t yet have things like Jetson-style flying cars—some of the technologies we do have go way beyond what was considered to be in the realm of science fiction wh…

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In the grand scheme of things, I don’t pay much attention to business announcements about funding, mergers, acquisitions, promotions, partnerships, or other corporate comings and goings. But there’…

In my previous two articles, I acquired and started to revive a $58 HP 3478A 5½-digit DMM that was operational but had two serious problems. First, its four power line snubbing capacitors were noto…

As I’ve mentioned in previous pieces, I’m constantly amazed by my ongoing discoveries of all the things I don’t know, and that’s just in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…

I love all that modern technology has to offer, and I’m blown away by how far we’ve come so fast. For example, I commenced my career in 1980 as a member of a team designing central processing units…

With the RIFA capacitors replaced in my HP 3478A DMM (see “An HP 3478A DMM Rescue, Part 1: RIFA Madness”), I was able to safely power up the DMM in preparation for battery replacement. With …

I get to hear a lot of things in my self-appointed role as collector, curator, and communicator of technological information. Sometimes things seem too good to be true, causing me to raise a quizzi…

When you come to think about it, many of the early ages of human development were defined by the materials people used, such as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Much later came the …

I really wasn’t planning on buying another DMM, but the forlorn, tattered and torn HP 3478A with a beat up case and cracked display window called out to me like a sad-eyed puppy or kitten in an ani…

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I just received a phone call from a famous company whose name we shall not speak lest they turn their corporate frowny face in my general direction. At first, I thought I was talking to a person, b…

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In Part 1 of this 2-part mini-series, we cogitated, contemplated, ruminated, and reflected on our increasing dependence on artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, we pondered what might happen…

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I think it’s fair to say that I’ve been blessed with a cheerful and optimistic disposition. I fully relate to the classic Always Look on the Bright Side of Life song from Monty Python’s Life of Bri…

This week we’re diving into a challenge that’s becoming increasingly important: how do we make sure our engineering workflows, software, data, and AI can all work together reliably? My guest is Jon…

As you may recall, we ended Part 1 of this two-part series in proud possession of our book manuscript in Word and our front and back covers as PNG files. All that remains is to actually publish the…

In this week’s podcast, Today, we’re talking about a problem that is increasingly difficult to ignore: wildfires and extreme weather. My guest today is Indran “Indy” Ratnath…

If you cast your mind back to the 1980s and 1990s, the electronic design automation (EDA) landscape was a very different place to the one we find ourselves in today. There were lots and lots of sma…

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I started working with electronics in high school, back in the 1960s. Heathkit got big in this era. Radio Shack was in its component prime during this time. Building electronic systems from compone…

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My podcast guest this week is Dr. Maha Achour, CEO and Founder of Kodamai. Maha and I chat about the shifting landscape of AI and how we can move beyond cloud and centralized data centers to a more…

One of the many things I haven’t really thought much about before is how people test websites these days. I know how we used to do it in the early days of the public-facing internet (when dinosaurs…

I can’t believe that the Design Automation Conference (DAC) has rolled around once again. Also, I can’t believe that, in conversation, some people remain blissfully unaware that you can pronounce t…

I’ve just seen the future of test and instrumentation and test, and it’s awesome, let me tell you! Yes, I know I said, “test and instrumentation and test.” Do I look like the sort of man who wouldn…

I must admit that I was tempted to title this column “It’s RAINing RFID! Hallelujah!” But then I thought you’d probably spend the rest of the day with the Weather Girls song rattling around i…

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I bet you woke up this morning saying something like, “I wonder what the latest and greatest interconnect technologies are for System-on-Chip (SoC) devices and multi-die system (MDS) solutions.” We…

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My first column on EEJournal, The Artificial Intelligence Apocalypse (Part 1), was posted on September 19, 2019. That’s almost seven years ago as I pen these words. Things are moving so fast these …

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Hot on the heels of Adiuvo’s introduction of the Explorer FPGA board (see “Need a low-cost FPGA dev board? Check out Adiuvo Engineering’s $99 Explorer board with an AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA”), th…

On the one hand, I think I’m taking the incredible advances we’re currently seeing in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in my stride, striving to maintain a dignified persona as the latest a…

Welcome to our third annual International Women in Engineering Day Fish Fry podcast! My special guests are Laura Mirkarimi from Adeia, Angelica Davila from Penguin Solutions, and Madison Ecklund fr…

RAIN RFID takes center stage this week! My guest is Matt Branda, Vice President at Impinj! Matt and I explore the vital role of RAIN RFID in the modern digital landscape. We break down what this te…

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I was just chatting with Tim Morin, who is Senior Director of Marketing and Applications at Microchip Technology. Unlike many of my conversations with technology companies, Tim didn’t have a partic…

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