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    Generative AI in the data center
    AI data centers typically require hundreds of megawatts of power, and it continues to rise to the point where most power companies refuse to provide such capacity from the public...
    Andy Turudic
    Inverter layout generated with SiliWiz
    Learn what the difference is between NMOS and PMOS transistors with SiliWiz—a free, browser-based, ASIC layout tool that generates extracted real-time SPICE simulations.
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    Our intrepid, mostly analog editor takes a stab at AI and then tries translating a recent Electronic Design product writeup from Pirate-speak to plain English.
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    The gnarliness of manually installing Linux-based chip design tools disappears with this simple installation of required Open-Source ASIC design tools, which takes less than an...
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    In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks.
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    A “cheap as chips” open-source Analog Computer can run circles around a Raspberry Pi in solving differential equations and for simulating natural phenomena.
    Andy Turudic
    LTspice simulation of the K2-W Vacuum Tube Op Amp’s design reveals the mad science that created a commercial revolution in 1950s and 1960s analog computing.
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    Design analysis of the K2-W Vacuum Tube Op Amp’s design and operation reveals the mad science that created a commercial revolution in 1950s and 1960s analog computing.
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    In the first of three parts, Andy hypothesizes that the K2-W Analog Computer Op Amp’s design has some unrevealed mad science in its input-stage design.