Episodes

Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Automotive design takes center stage in this week’s podcast. My guest is Chet Babla from indie. Chet and I chat about the automotive megatrends driving automotive innovation today. We also explore how radar and vision will shape the future of in-cabin and exterior automotive applications and how indie is supporting the next generation of vision and radar applications with their advanced silicon, photonics and sensor system solutions. Also this week, I check out the details of a new thermoelectric generator prototype that can convert exhaust heat into electricity.

Monday Jun 23, 2025
Fish Fry Special Edition: 2025 International Women in Engineering Day
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Welcome to our second annual International Women in Engineering Day Fish Fry podcast! My special guests are Sonja Brown from TDK, Chandana Tamma from Rehlko, and Sonja Ghelani from Texas Instruments. I sat down with each of these esteemed engineers and discussed their journeys into the world of high tech, how the EE landscape has changed over the years and what they would like to see in the future of engineering.

Friday Jun 20, 2025
Multi-Sensing for the Next Generation of HMI Applications
Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
My podcast guest this week is Vibheesh Bharathan, Director and Project Lead for PSOC 4 Multi-Sense at Infineon. Vibheesh and I chat all about the benefits of Infineon's new PSOC 4 MCU family. We discuss the details of the Multi-Sense technology at the heart of these new MCUs and why innovative new liquid level sensing capabilities of these microcontrollers make them perfect for noisy environments. Also this week, I check out new electronic skin created for robots by the University of Cambridge and University College London that can give robotic hands the ability to feel pressure, heat and pain.

Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
We are talking about one of my all time favorite topics this week: Space! My podcast guest is Kenneth O’Neill from AMD and we are talking all about the implementation of AI applications in space and how artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of space missions. We also chat about AMD’s Versal XQR devices and how these devices reflect a big leap forward in terms of onboard processing for space applications, and where Kenneth sees space based AI edge applications headed in the future.

Friday Jun 06, 2025
How SLAC is Advancing the Next Generation of Microelectronics
Friday Jun 06, 2025
Friday Jun 06, 2025
My special guests this week are Angelo Dragone and Paul McIntyre from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Angelo, Paul and I chat about the mission of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and how SLAC is advancing the development of next generation microelectronics. We also chat about the details of their new Microelectronics Energy Efficiency Research Center for Advanced Technologies (MEERCAT) and why the reduction of power consumption and the discovery of new materials is a driving force behind this new endeavor.

Friday May 30, 2025
Next Gen VITA 100: A Giant Leap for Interconnects
Friday May 30, 2025
Friday May 30, 2025
This week longtime friend of the show Mike Walmsley from TE Connectivity joins me to chat all about VITA 100. We chat about the objectives of this new standard, why VITA 100 reflects a big leap forward for signal integrity, and where VITA 100 is headed in the future. Also this week, I check out new contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed!

Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
My podcast guest this week is Bill Lamie, CEO of PX5 RTOS and RTOSX. Bill and I chat about the motivation behind the creation of RTOSX, the long term support offered by RTOSX and why experts in the embedded field including the original authors of the ThreadX embedded real-time operating system are crucial to their success. Also this week, I investigate a new novel framework developed by researchers at Duke University that can enable robots to sense and navigate complex outdoor environments just like humans do.

Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Battery management takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! My guest is Danielle Chu from MathWorks. Danielle and I explore the primary functions of battery management systems and the common challenges faced by engineers when designing electric vehicle battery management systems. We also investigate the role that modeling and simulation play in battery management design, the importance of cell characterization for battery modeling and how MathWorks is encouraging innovation in this arena.

Friday May 09, 2025
Headed to the Skies! High Speed Data Transmission for Aerospace Designs
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
This week’s podcast is all about high speed data transmission in aerospace applications! My podcast guests this week are Christian Hobmaier and Thomas Mittermeier from ODU connectors. Christian, Thomas and I explore the biggest challenges in this arena, the innovative new connector solutions ODU offers to support these kinds of designs, and the details of ODU’s rigorous testing that includes a technique called the "Arizona Dust Test". Also this week, I check out two new innovative methods to search for ice on the moon!

Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
My podcast guest this week is Wayne Lyons, Automotive Director at AMD. Wayne and I discuss the trends encouraging the development of software defined vehicles, how AMD is furthering innovation in many different areas within automotive design and the trends Wayne sees sharing the future of automotive technology.