Posts by Bilal:
Must-Have Tech Accessories for the Ideal Streaming Setup
Posted on: 19 Feb 2022
Streaming is more popular than ever in 2021, billions of viewing hours’ worth of popularity in fact, and that’s just on Twitch alone.If you were hoping to start streaming any time soon or wanted to improve your current setup, here are some must-have accessories to add to your collection. An Extra Screen (Or Two) An […]
ECT358L – Microprocessors II Laboratory Setting up and Using the Microchip MPLAB IDE
Posted on: 16 Feb 2022
MPLAB Installation Download the MPLAB 8.33 application (MPLAB_IDE_8_33.zip) from the coursewebsite under Lab 1 Extract the MPLAB_IDE_8_33 folder and select the “Install_MPLAB_8_33.exe” file tostart the installation process as shown in Figure 1. Do a complete install of all the MPLAB components as shown in Figure 2 using thedefault destination directory as shown in Figure 3. […]
New Software Promises to Radically Simplify Chip Design
Posted on: 14 Feb 2022
In 1975, Intel founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a single microchip would double every two years. He was right: silicon wafers that in the 1970s held just a few thousand transistors now routinely contain tens of billions of components. That makes chip design an extraordinarily complex and costly process, with […]
Using Microchip’s MPLAB X IDE and Programming the PIC18F
Posted on: 14 Feb 2022
Overview This guide provides a step-by-step guide on how to use the MPLAB X software by Microchip to set up aproject, write code and generate a programming file for the PIC microcontroller. It then explains how toprogram the PIC (in this case a PIC18F25K22) using the SuperPRO programmer and the file generatedfrom MPLAB X. Procedure […]
Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing
Posted on: 10 Feb 2022
when you think about your carbon footprint, what comes to mind? Driving and flying, probably. Perhaps home energy consumption or those daily Amazon deliveries. But what about watching Netflix or having Zoom meetings? Ever thought about the carbon footprint of the silicon chips inside your phone, smartwatch or the countless other devices inside your home? […]
What Managers Can Learn From the Microchip Industry
Posted on: 08 Feb 2022
Tuck professor Constance Helfat proposes a new theory of firm integration based on the costs of technological innovation When Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit—now known as a microchip—at Texas Instruments in the late 1950s, he unwittingly launched a multi-trillion-dollar industry that facilitated the information age. Because of the nature of the invention, Gordon Moore, […]
Novel Tandon-designed microchip will allow data to be processed without being decrypted
Posted on: 06 Feb 2022
A research team at the NYU Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at NYU Tandon are participating in a major initiative in collaboration with data security company Duality — supported by a $14 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — to design a revolutionary new microchip (codenamed “Trebuchet”). The microprocessor, to be designed by […]
Rethinking microchips’ design pushes computing to the edge
Posted on: 04 Feb 2022
Responding to artificial intelligence’s exploding demands on computer networks, Princeton University researchers in recent years have radically increased the speed and slashed the energy use of specialized AI systems. Now, the researchers have moved their innovation closer to widespread use by creating co-designed hardware and software that will allow designers to blend these new types […]
NEW MICROCHIP IMPROVES FUTURE OF SELF-POWERED WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
Posted on: 02 Feb 2022
Energy from your body heat and motion could fuel the future of preventative health care. Researchers at the University of Virginia are developing a low-power microchip that can support on-body, real-time health monitoring. By harvesting all its needed energy from sources like body heat, motion and sunlight, the chip will provide an extremely compact, long-lasting […]
Packing power into smaller spaces
Posted on: 31 Jan 2022
Researchers create new polymer-based electrical insulation for smaller microchips From slimmer laptops to smaller smartphones, all of our most-used devices rely on increasingly smaller microchips. But, in recent years, researchers have seemingly hit the limit on how far these chips can shrink. One of the biggest hurdles to putting more circuits and power onto a […]