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gNOSIS: Mining FPGAs for Verification
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Prototype with .NET Gadgeteer
.NET Gadgeteer is a platform that allows hobbyists, educators and developers to build and refine prototype electronic devices quickly and easily. Prototypes are built by combining a .NET Gadgeteer central processing unit mainboard with a…
Microsoft Research Blog
.NET Gadgeteer: Launch Pad for Devices
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center When Microsoft Research hardware engineer Steve Hodges was developing SenseCam—a wearable digital camera that automatically takes pictures that track the wearer’s activities—he needed months to create a…
Microsoft Research Blog
A Touch Mouse’s Tale
How do you take a concept from research to product? In the case of the Microsoft Touch Mouse, it took a collection of prototypes, collaboration between transatlantic teams, and a lot of user testing. It…
Microsoft Research Blog
Barrelfish: Exploring a Multicore OS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Multicore and many-core processors represent the future of computing. Concerns with power consumption and heat management have limited the ability of chip manufacturers to continue to provide more…