Clive "Max" Maxfield
@magnificent-max.bsky.social
Collector, Curator, and Communicator of Technological Information
Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI? www.eejournal.com/article/who-... Ambient Scientific's newly announced GPX10 Pro processor blurs the line between traditional microcontrollers and dedicated AI accelerators.
Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI?
Way back in the mists of time, in those halcyon days we used to call 2010, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), India…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI? www.eejournal.com/article/who-... Ambient Scientific's newly announced GPX10 Pro processor blurs the line between traditional microcontrollers and dedicated AI accelerators.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Go Analog or Go Home! www.hackster.io/news/go-anal... A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.
Go Analog or Go Home!
A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Go Analog or Go Home! www.hackster.io/news/go-anal... A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.
Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux www.eejournal.com/article/make... Tell Flux what you want to design, and it will deploy AI agents to design the circuit, generate the schematic, select the components, and lay out the PCB.
Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux
I remember “ye olden days” when we (humans) designed electronic products by hand—conceiving circuits, selecting components, drawing schematics, laying out printed circuit boards (PCBs)… Can y…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux www.eejournal.com/article/make... Tell Flux what you want to design, and it will deploy AI agents to design the circuit, generate the schematic, select the components, and lay out the PCB.
#MaxCoolBeans: Raving Over Rocket City Restoration www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/ra... When disaster strikes—fire, flood, or worse—who are you going to call? (Hint: Ghostbusters won’t cut it!)
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Raving Over Rocket City Restoration www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/ra... When disaster strikes—fire, flood, or worse—who are you going to call? (Hint: Ghostbusters won’t cut it!)
From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation www.eejournal.com/article/from... Emproof’s passive and active protections confound reverse-engineering tools and leave attackers scratching their heads.
From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation
In the context of programming, the term “obfuscation” is typically taken to mean “deliberately making source code hard to read or understand while keeping it functionally correct.” The reason I use…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation www.eejournal.com/article/from... Emproof’s passive and active protections confound reverse-engineering tools and leave attackers scratching their heads.
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11
Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Yikes! Bikes and Trikes! www.hackster.io/news/yikes-b... Pedaling through childhood memories of tricycles, bicycles, and breakneck go-kart adventures on the hills of Sheffield.
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Yikes! Bikes and Trikes! www.hackster.io/news/yikes-b... Pedaling through childhood memories of tricycles, bicycles, and breakneck go-kart adventures on the hills of Sheffield.
Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development www.eejournal.com/article/mode... “Fail quickly and fail often, but fail virtually” is the essence of modern engineering. Don’t wait for the prototype to tell you what’s wrong. Let the model do it for you before implementing it in the real world.
Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development
As I’ve mentioned on occasion, my degree is in Control Engineering. Well, that’s what we used to call it deep in the mists of time (circa the late 1970s) when I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed stud…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development www.eejournal.com/article/mode... “Fail quickly and fail often, but fail virtually” is the essence of modern engineering. Don’t wait for the prototype to tell you what’s wrong. Let the model do it for you before implementing it in the real world.
Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge? www.eejournal.com/article/will... In the case of Edge AI, compared with leading competitors, ECS-DoT operates up to 93% faster while consuming 90% less energy, all while supporting true multimodal sensor fusion on-device.
Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge?
We live in exciting times. Sometimes I’m unsure just how much more excitement I can take. I can imagine one day talking to my grandchildren, saying something like, “I remember the days before AI,” …
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October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge? www.eejournal.com/article/will... In the case of Edge AI, compared with leading competitors, ECS-DoT operates up to 93% faster while consuming 90% less energy, all while supporting true multimodal sensor fusion on-device.
#MaxCoolBeans: Blooming Marvelous! www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/bl... Get 333× closer to the cosmos—and you won’t believe what you’ll see!
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Blooming Marvelous! www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/bl... Get 333× closer to the cosmos—and you won’t believe what you’ll see!
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Screeching Across the Spectrum www.hackster.io/news/screech... When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.
Screeching Across the Spectrum
When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Screeching Across the Spectrum www.hackster.io/news/screech... When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.
Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take www.eejournal.com/article/insi... In which we learn about the RISC-V crusade of maverick Yuning Liang (founder of DeepComputing) to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience.
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take www.eejournal.com/article/insi... In which we learn about the RISC-V crusade of maverick Yuning Liang (founder of DeepComputing) to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience.
Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House? www.eejournal.com/article/is-i... DDM Novastar offers a full suite of equipment tailored for LTH and SMT board assembly, especially for prototyping and low- to medium-volume production.
Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll doubtless say it again—I’m constantly amazed by how the metaphysical theme of the “interrelatedness of all things” that permeates the Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adam…
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October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House? www.eejournal.com/article/is-i... DDM Novastar offers a full suite of equipment tailored for LTH and SMT board assembly, especially for prototyping and low- to medium-volume production.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Good Vibrations and Border Blasters www.hackster.io/news/good-vi... From Wolfman Jack’s midnight howl to homemade transmitters, America’s airwaves echoed freedom, rebellion, and rock ’n’ roll.
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Good Vibrations and Border Blasters www.hackster.io/news/good-vi... From Wolfman Jack’s midnight howl to homemade transmitters, America’s airwaves echoed freedom, rebellion, and rock ’n’ roll.
Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge www.eejournal.com/article/next... The Astra SL2600 Series of multimodal Edge AI processors from Synaptics is purpose-built for the next wave of... well, everything, really
Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge
I’m having “one of those days.” During a recent chat with someone who has a lot to answer for, I was informed that IREE is the execution layer for MILR and that I can think of MILR as a newer versi…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge www.eejournal.com/article/next... The Astra SL2600 Series of multimodal Edge AI processors from Synaptics is purpose-built for the next wave of... well, everything, really
Polish Logic Meets Silicon Magic: Say Hi to Grinn’s GenioSOM-700 www.eejournal.com/article/poli... Featuring the MediaTek MT8390 processor (6um process node), the GenioSOM-700 punches above its weight in terms of raw computing power with the smallest form factor at an affordable price point.
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Polish Logic Meets Silicon Magic: Say Hi to Grinn’s GenioSOM-700 www.eejournal.com/article/poli... Featuring the MediaTek MT8390 processor (6um process node), the GenioSOM-700 punches above its weight in terms of raw computing power with the smallest form factor at an affordable price point.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: When Pirates Ruled the (Air) Waves www.hackster.io/news/when-pi... From Radio Luxembourg to Radio Caroline, the pirates who brought British broadcasting — and pop culture — alive.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: When Pirates Ruled the (Air) Waves www.hackster.io/news/when-pi... From Radio Luxembourg to Radio Caroline, the pirates who brought British broadcasting — and pop culture — alive.
Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront www.eejournal.com/article/boda... BrainChip's Akida IP for SoCs employs a neuromorphic architecture based on spiking neural networks (SNNs), providing real-time streaming Edge AI that runs continuously on milliwatts of power.
Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront
Hold onto your hippocampus because the latest neuromorphic marvels are firing on all synapses. To ensure we’re all tap-dancing to the same skirl of the bagpipes, let’s remind ourselves that the ter…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront www.eejournal.com/article/boda... BrainChip's Akida IP for SoCs employs a neuromorphic architecture based on spiking neural networks (SNNs), providing real-time streaming Edge AI that runs continuously on milliwatts of power.
#MaxCoolBeans: Scamming the Scammers www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/sc... I hate scammers. I wish I had the skills to track them to their lairs and give them a very “bad hair day” indeed.
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Scamming the Scammers www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/sc... I hate scammers. I wish I had the skills to track them to their lairs and give them a very “bad hair day” indeed.
Edge AI Inferencing 5X Faster with 1/2 the Memory (What’s Not to Love?) www.eejournal.com/article/edge... Ambiq’s introduced two new edge AI runtime flows, HeliaRT (a plug-in replacement for TFLM that runs 5X faster) and HeliaAOT (also 5X faster AND 1/2 the memory).
Edge AI Inferencing 5X Faster with 1/2 the Memory (What’s Not to Love?)
There’s an old joke that I remember from when I was a kid. It started when my dad asked, “When is a door not a door?” I looked at him blankly (a look I’ve since perfected over the years) until he c…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Edge AI Inferencing 5X Faster with 1/2 the Memory (What’s Not to Love?) www.eejournal.com/article/edge... Ambiq’s introduced two new edge AI runtime flows, HeliaRT (a plug-in replacement for TFLM that runs 5X faster) and HeliaAOT (also 5X faster AND 1/2 the memory).
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 10 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Reading and reporting analog values from a breadboard-mounted trimmer potentiometer.
Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 10
Reading and reporting analog values from a breadboard-mounted trimmer potentiometer.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 10 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Reading and reporting analog values from a breadboard-mounted trimmer potentiometer.
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Be Kind, Rewind: The Home Video Revolution www.hackster.io/news/be-kind... Battling formats, flashing clocks, and the sheer wonder of recording television programs at home.
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Be Kind, Rewind: The Home Video Revolution www.hackster.io/news/be-kind... Battling formats, flashing clocks, and the sheer wonder of recording television programs at home.
Agentic AI Prevents Costly Machine Downtime in Factories and Semiconductor Fabs www.eejournal.com/article/agen... Via Automation's agentic AI platform addresses the problem of unplanned downtime in factories and fabs, where the costs of such downtime exceed $1.5 trillion globally each year.
Agentic AI Prevents Costly Machine Downtime in Factories and Semiconductor Fabs
Things are moving fast in AI space (where no one can hear you scream). For example, I first became aware of the concept of “Agentic AI” only a couple of months ago as I pen these words. Now, I find…
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October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Agentic AI Prevents Costly Machine Downtime in Factories and Semiconductor Fabs www.eejournal.com/article/agen... Via Automation's agentic AI platform addresses the problem of unplanned downtime in factories and fabs, where the costs of such downtime exceed $1.5 trillion globally each year.
Are We Ready for 2Q 21C? www.eejournal.com/article/are-... Powered by FPGAs, embedded CPUs, and adaptive SoCs, say hello to next-generation AI-enabled apps at the edge, where the "internet rubber" meets the "real-world road."
Are We Ready for 2Q 21C?
It just struck me that we are rapidly approaching the end of 2025. In turn, this means we’re poised to plunge headfirst into 2Q 21C, which is a notation I’ve just invented to indicate “The second q…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Are We Ready for 2Q 21C? www.eejournal.com/article/are-... Powered by FPGAs, embedded CPUs, and adaptive SoCs, say hello to next-generation AI-enabled apps at the edge, where the "internet rubber" meets the "real-world road."
#MaxCoolBeans: Thunderstruck with Paradoxes www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/th... I recently ran across a video presenting 17 paradoxes that promised to change the way I see the universe. It didn’t disappoint!
September 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#MaxCoolBeans: Thunderstruck with Paradoxes www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/th... I recently ran across a video presenting 17 paradoxes that promised to change the way I see the universe. It didn’t disappoint!