Failure Modes Of Wearable Electronics


Society has been enamored with wearable electronics for many years. From FitBit to Google Glass to Apple Watch, taking electronic technology to the next level has fascinated us. Wiki defines wearable computers (also known as body-borne computers or wearables) as miniature electronic devices that are worn by the bearer under, with or on top of clothing. This class of wearable technology has been... » read more

System Bits: Sept. 15


Cache-coherence innovation for thousand-core chips MIT researchers are getting ready to unveil what they say is the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades. They reminded that in a modern, multicore chip, every processor core has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. The chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores... » read more