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What happens now to Fable 5 and Mythos 5?

The US government forced Anthropic to cut foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. What that means for anyone building a business on US AI.

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One Spec to Rule Them All: a single source of truth for firmware, tests and docs

How one machine-readable contract drives the firmware, the hardware tests and the manual of an embedded device, and why the spec always wins.

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Spec-driven development, Scrum, SAFe, and waterfall: what works when

Waterfall, Scrum, SAFe and spec-driven development side by side. Which process model fits which embedded project, and why specifications are suddenly back in fashion.

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EMI under control: spreading a PWM line with a Fibonacci LFSR

How a sharp 16.25 kHz PWM line becomes a wide, EMI-friendly band. With an 8-bit Fibonacci LFSR in a CPLD and one latching trick.

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The status LED as a debug channel: bit-bang when nothing else is left

Code protection on, UART busy, no spare pin for debug or trace, trace pads buried under the BGA. How a single status LED becomes a debug channel, read with a Saleae and decoded with Python.

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DC-side surge protection: how string routing decides whether the inverter lives or dies

How the plus and minus wires of a PV string have to be routed so that a nearby lightning strike does not destroy the inverter, with string sizes for single family homes, costs and the relevant standards.

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