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Meltdown & Spectre

As you have all heard, the Meldown & Spectre security vulnerabilities apply in some fashion to pretty much every computing device out there.  This is a new paradigm of security issue, in that is’s a compromise of the fundamental hardware vs software that runs on it.  But the issue can be mitigated by software. The…

Infinetix SmartMesh IP™ Services

Infinetix provides a broad range of services associated with the Linear Technology Dust Networks® SmartMesh IP™ technology.   Introduction The SmartMesh® technology is a robust wireless sensor network methodology that is especially well suited to commercial and industrial applications in the emerging internet of things (IoT) marketplace. A SmartMesh® network consists of a self-forming, multi-hop mesh of sensor nodes…

Microchip: Long Live the 8-Bit

Microchip has been very acquisition-hungry as of late, recently purchasing Atmel among many others.  While their product line expands, the most noticeable might be the merging of the two largest 8-bit microcontroller providers.  The PIC Micro and the AVR are now owned by Microchip and both have a stronghold in the industry and in the maker community.  The most…