Archive for August 2014

The Analog Swiss Army Knife IC

Interfacing digital electronics to analog world is needed in many applications. There have been several attempts at devices that might be called field-programmable analog arrays (FPAAs) over the years, but most have failed to establish a significant market presence (maybe except Cypress Semiconductor PSoC). The Analog Swiss Army Knife article tells that without a proper

Assembly Summer 2014 1k intro compo

I was again amazed on what I saw in Assembly Summer 2014 1k intro competition. In this competition the programmers make a program what has maximum size of 1 kilobyte. And they do amazing thing with those tiny programs: 3D graphics and audio are included. It is really hard, because typically a simple “hello world”