If you cover a long enough time period, the small ups and downs of a graphed line can look very smooth.  Semico’s semiconductor wafer demand data goes back to 1991.  When graphed from 1991 to 2016, wafer growth appears to have a very steady upward trend with only a few minor interruptions.  Wafer demand grows [...]

Recently Analog Devices, inc. released the latest additions to its Blackfin family of DSPs.  The BF60x family is a high performance dual core design targeting high end embedded applications.  Two members, BF608 and BF609, integrate hardware processing for machine vision.  This recent product launch introduces ADI’s Pipelined Vision Processor (PVP).
ADI’s PVP is a new dedicated [...]

The digital home has been coming for decades. Ma Bell knew; 30 plus years ago, its vision of the future was “data and pictures at your fingertips.” Star Trek knew; iPads were a standard accessory over 20 years ago in the show. And now reality is finally catching up.
This means big [...]