Abstract: Optimizing power distribution networks (PDNs) is a key research target in power integrity (PI) design, and the optimization of decoupling capacitors (decaps) is a critical approach to ...

Automation is not only transforming field work. In storage sheds, optical sorting systems are delivering fast returns.

Abstract: Understanding what algorithms are really about can be quite hard for students, mostly because they are theoretical and often taught using old-fashioned ways like simple pictures and texts.

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...