I was at the ARM developer conference this week. One of the keynotes was by TJ Rodgers who started off by telling us more than we wanted to know about how he is using software and hardware to try and make the new world’s best pinot noir (he’s conceded that DRC is too hard to beat, but that’s old world). However, there was a serious point: he used Cypress PSoCs (programmable systems on chip) to implement the hardware, which was a use not envisaged when the hardware was designed.

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