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I’m not much of a baseball fan, but I do know that it’s the most data-intensive sport, and has been recording just about everything that can be recorded for an awful long time. And now Major League Baseball is going even further with the statistics it’s gathering by introducing a system called Statcast.
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TI has a very handy "Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference" available. Definitely of interest to engineering types...
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This week's announcement that Intel will acquire Altera is especially interesting to Critical Link, as we are an Altera partner. We're looking forward to seeing what innovations come out of this.
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I recently had a diagnostic ultrasound, and while I was laying there on the table looking at the fuzzy, grainy image, something occurred to me. And that something was that the image quality doesn’t seem to have improved all that much over the last 26 years.
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Railroad systems are complex. So is PTC: it can’t be implemented overnight, so it’s understandable that it takes time to get all the different segments of a system up and running.
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Moore's Law has held true for 50 years now. It may not last for much longer.
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For really smart cars, ARM has predicted that, by 2024, vehicles deploying Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) will need a minimum of 100x more computing performance than 2016 models do.
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I’m a dog person, so I’m not sure how this one caught my attention, but recently I ran across something about SureFlap, a British company that makes products that work off of your cat’s microchip, governing the cat door and feeding dish.
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While the MityDSP-L138+FPGA – part of our OMAP-L138 family of SoMs – has been available for a few years, our customers are still coming up with innovative ways to use it.
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On a recent "Inside Man," Morgan Spurlock went behind the scenes to find where our trash all goes. Trash Track was used to track the electronics throw-aways.
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