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		<title>Clock Domain Crossing Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The target audience for this post is digital system design engineers; knowledge of digital design is assumed. What are clock domains? When they first became an issue, clock domain crossings (CDCs) were determined by the inability of static timing analysis (STA) tools to determine the timing relationship between two individual signals. To a certain extent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=429&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demo vs. Training: What&#8217;s the difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone involved in supporting customers of any non-trivial commercial software product, it is very important to understand the distinction between a product demo and product training. Ideally, demos are pre-sales and training is post-sales. A demo is pre-sales: The vendor has control over what is seen and, more importantly, what is not seen. An employee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=410&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Incumbents! (Off Topic)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a dysfunctional Federal government. Clogging congressional phone lines must be only a precursor to the real solution, which is this: do not vote for incumbents. If ever there was a time to heed the old truism that politicians are like diapers (they need to be changed periodically, and for much the same reason), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=404&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The internet has a learning curve (O.T.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Far from being a ‘digital democracy,’ the Internet is dominated by the opinions of rich, powerful people, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley. You needed to fund a study to figure that out? Hey, whadya know, the internet has a learning curve! If you thought &#8220;the Internet would give the poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=396&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Office 2007 help for Office 2003 folk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I have yet to get used to the menu structure of Office 2007, so different from the familiar one in Office 2003. It has always struck me as change for its own sake, throwing off imitators like OpenOffice, and more in the service of Microsoft than of users. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=382&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is defragmenting a hard drive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Gascoyne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a recommended procedure on personal computers called &#8220;defragmenting.&#8221; What follows is a layman&#8217;s description of how a hard drive works and why defragmenting is important. Think of your hard drive as a library. No, not a &#8220;Windows 7&#8243; library, but a real physical library with books and shelves and a card catalog. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=368&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scan Chain Diagrams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Gascoyne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader named Anand suggested diagrams for the scan test basics article. I&#8217;m happy to oblige. This is a scan flop. It&#8217;s really just a wrapper surrounding a regular flop and a 2:1 mux, connected as shown. The result has two extra input pins, Scan Enable (SE) and Scan In (SI). Form a scan chain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=355&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handguns for home defense? (O.T.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of this week&#8217;s Supreme Court decision, here are a few words of advice from a former marksmanship instructor to anyone tempted to run out and buy a handgun for home defense. First, hitting a target with a handgun is not as easy as it looks. Are you prepared to spend a number of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=340&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn Presentations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two LinkedIn tutorial presentations available, an older Basic PDF file, and a newer Advanced PPS file. Of course, at the rate LinkedIn changes things, neither of these presentations is entirely up-to-date (that would require a great deal of maintenance), but both are still useful.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=333&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Scan Test Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the highest-traffic articles I&#8217;ve written for this blog is Scan Test Basics. It seems fitting to review that article and add a few more thoughts on this topic. Re-ordering patterns for efficiency I pointed out in the original article that every scan pattern is independent, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that the sequence of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billgascoyne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5511032&amp;post=324&amp;subd=billgascoyne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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