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From: | Steve Schear |
Subject: | [Discuss-gnuradio] Programmable Chips |
Date: | Thu, 02 May 2002 12:42:45 -0700 |
From Technology Review -- http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/upstream0502.asp Programmable Chips Upstream By David Voss May 2002 Chips that change function on the fly will mean more versatile handhelds.Late for an appointment, you grab your personal information appliance. Prompted by your uttering the words cell phone, the small gadget awakens and instantly programs itself for a mobile phone call. Done with the call, you say translator, and the device rewires itself to translate the latest business news from Tokyo. Issue the command map, and it reconfigures itself again to take a GPS reading and display your location in real time.
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