Clive "Max" Maxfield
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Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 13 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Boundary conditions, bit-twiddling basics, and the legendary “How to Hunt Elephants” algorithm.
Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 13
Boundary conditions, bit-twiddling basics, and the legendary “How to Hunt Elephants” algorithm.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 13 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Boundary conditions, bit-twiddling basics, and the legendary “How to Hunt Elephants” algorithm.
Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber? www.eejournal.com/article/do-y... The folks at Ainekko have launched AI Foundry--an open-source community that releases production-grade RTL, system emulators, software stacks, and developer tooling--and they are actively looking for AI Plumbers.
Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber?
Increasingly, I find myself talking to people who say something like, “We have a 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-core proof-of-concept AI chip that can—in the future—be scaled up to 1,000 cores.” But this is the …
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November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber? www.eejournal.com/article/do-y... The folks at Ainekko have launched AI Foundry--an open-source community that releases production-grade RTL, system emulators, software stacks, and developer tooling--and they are actively looking for AI Plumbers.
Analog Neuromorphic Processors for ASICs/SoCs Offer Microwatt Edge AI www.eejournal.com/article/anal... POLYN’s proprietary hardware and design tool ecosystem enables a trained digital neural network model to be translated into an analog neuromorphic core implemented in CMOS.
Analog Neuromorphic Processors for ASICs/SoCs Offer Microwatt Edge AI
We live in exciting times with respect to AI and the devices used to implement inferencing at the edge, where the “internet rubber” meets the “real-world road,” as it were. It reminds me of those d…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Analog Neuromorphic Processors for ASICs/SoCs Offer Microwatt Edge AI www.eejournal.com/article/anal... POLYN’s proprietary hardware and design tool ecosystem enables a trained digital neural network model to be translated into an analog neuromorphic core implemented in CMOS.
Want Nano-Scale, CMOS-Based MEMS Sensors? -- Nanusens's sensors are 1,000 times smaller than their traditional silicon-based MEMS counterparts, offering greater bandwidth and higher sensitivity, while also being more cost-effective and reliable.
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Want Nano-Scale, CMOS-Based MEMS Sensors?
We’re talking about CMOS-based MEMS sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than their traditional silicon-based MEMS counterparts, offering greater bandwidth and higher sensitivity, while also being …
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November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Want Nano-Scale, CMOS-Based MEMS Sensors? -- Nanusens's sensors are 1,000 times smaller than their traditional silicon-based MEMS counterparts, offering greater bandwidth and higher sensitivity, while also being more cost-effective and reliable.
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Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 12 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Using the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 12
Using the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 12 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Using the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
#MaxCoolBeans: Worlds Within Worlds www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/wo... Exploring an AI-only world where digital minds build societies while humans lurk outside the looking glass.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Worlds Within Worlds www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/wo... Exploring an AI-only world where digital minds build societies while humans lurk outside the looking glass.
Micro-Miniature Ethernet Switches and Routers www.eejournal.com/article/micr... Based on a tiny FPGA and MCU, BotBlox's SwitchCore is an 8-port, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch AND router that measures just 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.5 inches.
Micro-Miniature Ethernet Switches and Routers
In a moment, I’m going to tell you about the slightest and slimmest Ethernet switches and routers you’ve never seen, but first… I’ve told this networking narrative before, and doubtless I’ll tell …
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November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Micro-Miniature Ethernet Switches and Routers www.eejournal.com/article/micr... Based on a tiny FPGA and MCU, BotBlox's SwitchCore is an 8-port, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch AND router that measures just 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.5 inches.
Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI? www.eejournal.com/article/who-... Ambient Scientific's newly announced GPX10 Pro processor blurs the line between traditional microcontrollers and dedicated AI accelerators.
Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI?
Way back in the mists of time, in those halcyon days we used to call 2010, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), India…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI? www.eejournal.com/article/who-... Ambient Scientific's newly announced GPX10 Pro processor blurs the line between traditional microcontrollers and dedicated AI accelerators.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Go Analog or Go Home! www.hackster.io/news/go-anal... A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.
Go Analog or Go Home!
A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Go Analog or Go Home! www.hackster.io/news/go-anal... A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.
Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux www.eejournal.com/article/make... Tell Flux what you want to design, and it will deploy AI agents to design the circuit, generate the schematic, select the components, and lay out the PCB.
Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux
I remember “ye olden days” when we (humans) designed electronic products by hand—conceiving circuits, selecting components, drawing schematics, laying out printed circuit boards (PCBs)… Can y…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux www.eejournal.com/article/make... Tell Flux what you want to design, and it will deploy AI agents to design the circuit, generate the schematic, select the components, and lay out the PCB.
#MaxCoolBeans: Raving Over Rocket City Restoration www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/ra... When disaster strikes—fire, flood, or worse—who are you going to call? (Hint: Ghostbusters won’t cut it!)
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Raving Over Rocket City Restoration www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/ra... When disaster strikes—fire, flood, or worse—who are you going to call? (Hint: Ghostbusters won’t cut it!)
From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation www.eejournal.com/article/from... Emproof’s passive and active protections confound reverse-engineering tools and leave attackers scratching their heads.
From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation
In the context of programming, the term “obfuscation” is typically taken to mean “deliberately making source code hard to read or understand while keeping it functionally correct.” The reason I use…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation www.eejournal.com/article/from... Emproof’s passive and active protections confound reverse-engineering tools and leave attackers scratching their heads.
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11
Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Yikes! Bikes and Trikes! www.hackster.io/news/yikes-b... Pedaling through childhood memories of tricycles, bicycles, and breakneck go-kart adventures on the hills of Sheffield.
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Yikes! Bikes and Trikes! www.hackster.io/news/yikes-b... Pedaling through childhood memories of tricycles, bicycles, and breakneck go-kart adventures on the hills of Sheffield.
Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development www.eejournal.com/article/mode... “Fail quickly and fail often, but fail virtually” is the essence of modern engineering. Don’t wait for the prototype to tell you what’s wrong. Let the model do it for you before implementing it in the real world.
Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development
As I’ve mentioned on occasion, my degree is in Control Engineering. Well, that’s what we used to call it deep in the mists of time (circa the late 1970s) when I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed stud…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development www.eejournal.com/article/mode... “Fail quickly and fail often, but fail virtually” is the essence of modern engineering. Don’t wait for the prototype to tell you what’s wrong. Let the model do it for you before implementing it in the real world.
Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge? www.eejournal.com/article/will... In the case of Edge AI, compared with leading competitors, ECS-DoT operates up to 93% faster while consuming 90% less energy, all while supporting true multimodal sensor fusion on-device.
Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge?
We live in exciting times. Sometimes I’m unsure just how much more excitement I can take. I can imagine one day talking to my grandchildren, saying something like, “I remember the days before AI,” …
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October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge? www.eejournal.com/article/will... In the case of Edge AI, compared with leading competitors, ECS-DoT operates up to 93% faster while consuming 90% less energy, all while supporting true multimodal sensor fusion on-device.
#MaxCoolBeans: Blooming Marvelous! www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/bl... Get 333× closer to the cosmos—and you won’t believe what you’ll see!
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Blooming Marvelous! www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/bl... Get 333× closer to the cosmos—and you won’t believe what you’ll see!
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Screeching Across the Spectrum www.hackster.io/news/screech... When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.
Screeching Across the Spectrum
When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Screeching Across the Spectrum www.hackster.io/news/screech... When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.
Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take www.eejournal.com/article/insi... In which we learn about the RISC-V crusade of maverick Yuning Liang (founder of DeepComputing) to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience.
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take www.eejournal.com/article/insi... In which we learn about the RISC-V crusade of maverick Yuning Liang (founder of DeepComputing) to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience.
Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House? www.eejournal.com/article/is-i... DDM Novastar offers a full suite of equipment tailored for LTH and SMT board assembly, especially for prototyping and low- to medium-volume production.
Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll doubtless say it again—I’m constantly amazed by how the metaphysical theme of the “interrelatedness of all things” that permeates the Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adam…
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October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House? www.eejournal.com/article/is-i... DDM Novastar offers a full suite of equipment tailored for LTH and SMT board assembly, especially for prototyping and low- to medium-volume production.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Good Vibrations and Border Blasters www.hackster.io/news/good-vi... From Wolfman Jack’s midnight howl to homemade transmitters, America’s airwaves echoed freedom, rebellion, and rock ’n’ roll.
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Good Vibrations and Border Blasters www.hackster.io/news/good-vi... From Wolfman Jack’s midnight howl to homemade transmitters, America’s airwaves echoed freedom, rebellion, and rock ’n’ roll.
Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge www.eejournal.com/article/next... The Astra SL2600 Series of multimodal Edge AI processors from Synaptics is purpose-built for the next wave of... well, everything, really
Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge
I’m having “one of those days.” During a recent chat with someone who has a lot to answer for, I was informed that IREE is the execution layer for MILR and that I can think of MILR as a newer versi…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge www.eejournal.com/article/next... The Astra SL2600 Series of multimodal Edge AI processors from Synaptics is purpose-built for the next wave of... well, everything, really
Polish Logic Meets Silicon Magic: Say Hi to Grinn’s GenioSOM-700 www.eejournal.com/article/poli... Featuring the MediaTek MT8390 processor (6um process node), the GenioSOM-700 punches above its weight in terms of raw computing power with the smallest form factor at an affordable price point.
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Polish Logic Meets Silicon Magic: Say Hi to Grinn’s GenioSOM-700 www.eejournal.com/article/poli... Featuring the MediaTek MT8390 processor (6um process node), the GenioSOM-700 punches above its weight in terms of raw computing power with the smallest form factor at an affordable price point.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: When Pirates Ruled the (Air) Waves www.hackster.io/news/when-pi... From Radio Luxembourg to Radio Caroline, the pirates who brought British broadcasting — and pop culture — alive.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: When Pirates Ruled the (Air) Waves www.hackster.io/news/when-pi... From Radio Luxembourg to Radio Caroline, the pirates who brought British broadcasting — and pop culture — alive.
Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront www.eejournal.com/article/boda... BrainChip's Akida IP for SoCs employs a neuromorphic architecture based on spiking neural networks (SNNs), providing real-time streaming Edge AI that runs continuously on milliwatts of power.
Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront
Hold onto your hippocampus because the latest neuromorphic marvels are firing on all synapses. To ensure we’re all tap-dancing to the same skirl of the bagpipes, let’s remind ourselves that the ter…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront www.eejournal.com/article/boda... BrainChip's Akida IP for SoCs employs a neuromorphic architecture based on spiking neural networks (SNNs), providing real-time streaming Edge AI that runs continuously on milliwatts of power.