A Brief History of VHDL and The FPGA | From a documentation tool to synthesizable hardware - Simple Thread

I’ve been a software developer for 20 years, and for about 15 of those years, I’ve worked in secure government facilities or with other large, security-conscious organizations. I used to have to deposit my cell phone in a locker, walk through a metal detector, and swipe my badge multiple times just to get to my workstation. Over the years, most of the developers I’ve worked w...

Let’s say a utility company has 10,000 electricity meters and let’s say each meter reports a reading every 15 minutes. When you do the math, that’s 960,000 readings per day and about 350 million per year. Let’s also say that the readings arrive as one compressed CSV file per day because, sooner or later, every data pipeline becomes a directory full of CSV files. It doesn’t ta...

Following our thesis on programming ethics, the

Some of the most promising ideas in the energy industry begin as research.

But proving that a new method works is only one step toward changing how utilities operate. To make an impact at scale, that research eventually has to become software that engineers can deploy, understand, trust, and incorporate into their existing workflows.

That transition is at the he...

It is easy to look at an aging internal application and assume the problem is the software.

Maybe the interface feels dated. Maybe people are doing too much work manually. Maybe the system can no longer support new requirements without a lot of extra effort.

Those things matter, but they are usually only the visible part of the problem.

B...