There are very few magazines that interest me enough to read them in detail. Today my list is 2 magazines… The first is IEEE Spectrum. This is one magazine I read in detail, cover to cover, I even read all the ads. This magazine has pretty high technical content but in the past few issues […]
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Wifi, BT, Audio Testing and CeteCom
Went for a meeting to an interesting company today. Cetecom is a big player in the Certification and Testing space. They do EMI and EMC testing, but that is only a small part of what all they do. They do Bluetooth compatibility testing, Wifi Logo Testing, CTIA Converged Wireless testing, 3G, LTE and Audio testing. […]
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Cleaning up the house…
Why is it so hard to keep the house clean…that is the question? I expect that this is a discussion in every house that there is. You would expect that somebody would have figured out a way to keep the gremlins under control. I have the same issue here. Either it is that there is […]
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A world of small things…
Over the past few years I have been working on how we can build bigger and bigger systems. First it was ARM9 then ARM11, then Cortex A8, then dual core Cortex A9, now it is the Cortex A15. There is a continuous upgrade of technical capabilities that is required. This is the sexy stuff, the […]
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Accelerometers and InvenSense
We have been integrating Accelerometers in a lot of the systems that we are building. We typically take a module device, integrate it into the OS that we are using and ship it out. About two weeks ago I (along with Ajit M. B.) got to meet InvenSense. InvenSense is a company that more or […]
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I know what I want for my birthday
2011-07-07 10:01:52 Bubby and the kids were after me, asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I have been evasive. They have been trying to get me to say yes for a iPAD but I have been resisting. Today I saw an email from Costco indicating that there are discounts for the Kawasaki motorcycles. […]
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Will Android hurt Linux
It is now a couple of years since Android appeared on the scene. When it just appeared, it was a lone voice, the Open Handset Alliance, and went up against the industry behemoths (including Nokia, etc) who had put together the LIMO Foundation. LIMO has disappeared, and the Open Handset Alliance is no longer referred […]
2011-03-10 11:25:43 Driving to office this morning, I had jsut come out of the gate, thinking…oh no, back to the grind. There are 83 different things to do and so on. Next to my house there is a park, a lady was walking in front of it, and then she did a curious thing… She […]
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Ajay – What do I do…
2011-01-25 19:03:38 I write this as I am sitting on a flight from Holtsville, NY. It’s the second week of january and ajay has been gone almost a month. I’m struggling to write something because I believe I have not done enough. And I cannot let him just go past into the distance… What do […]
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