Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

AI is My Copilot: How Flux is Revolutionizing PCB Design

My podcast guest this week is Mattias Wagner from Flux! Mattias and I investigate the role that AI plays in the Flux PCB design platform. We also delve into the details of the Flux Method, Flux Model and Flux Co-pilot, and discuss why working smarter not harder is cornerstone to the Flux mission. I also investigate why the discovery of phosphorus in the outer reaches of the galaxy could have major implications for the possibility of alien life. 

Extremely Low Latency FPGAs and SmartNICs: How Achronix is Supercharging Networking Innovation

FPGAs take center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! But not just any field programmable gate arrays - I’m talking about the Speedster7t FPGAs! My guests Scott Schweitzer and Ron Renwick from Achronix and I chat about why Achronix's FPGAs are particularly well suited for networking and SmartNIC tasks, the advantages of Achronix's accelerated network infrastructure code and the details of their new FPGA-Powered accelerated automatic speech recognition. 

High Speed Communications, Optical Interfaces and the Future of Embedded Systems

This week’s podcast is all about high speed communication, optical interfaces for military and aerospace designs, and 3D printing in space! My guest Patrick Mechin (Techway) and I discuss the trends in high speed communications, the benefits of optical interfaces for modern embedded systems, and how Techway is supporting innovation in this arena. Also this week, I check out how 3D-printed titanium dioxide foam could help us in our quest for space habitation.

All About Sports! Sensors, Stats and Taking Performance Analytics to the Next Level

Let’s talk about sensor technologies in sports! In this week’s podcast, I investigate some super cool new applications in the sports arena with Peter Hartwell - Chief Technology Officer at InvenSense, Inc, a TDK company. Peter and I discuss the role that sensors will play in the upcoming Olympics, the benefits that InvenSense sensors bring to sports applications, and where Peter thinks sensing technologies are headed in the future.  Also this week, I examine a new brain implant that may be able to enable communication from thoughts alone!

Making Embedded Systems Smarter: How ITTIA is Tackling the Challenges of Real Time Data Management

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, ITTIA President Sasan Montaseri joins me to chat about the challenges of real-time data management, the best security practices when it comes to embedded IoT edge data management and how ITTIA can help you manage your embedded systems real-time data in a single database solution.

The Freedom to Innovate: Arteris and the Rise of RISC-V

The adoption of RISC-V is spreading. Versatility and “freedom to innovate” are powering the ecosystem. In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Frank Schirrmeister from Arteris and I explore how to enable better architecture optimization, manage different protocols with ease, and reduce interconnect area plus power consumption with network-on-chip IP.  Also this week, I check out new soft medical micro robots developed by a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo.

 

Embedded to the Future: Smaller, Faster, Denser

Longtime friend of the show Matt Burns joins me this week to discuss the future of embedded design. We investigate the role that PAM4 will play in this arena, the benefits that SoMs and CoMs bring to the embedded design ecosystem and why faster data rates and increased functionality will be driving forces in the future of embedded applications. 

 

Let’s head to the Stars! COTs in Space 2.0 and A New AI Test for Life on Other Planets

We are headed to space this week! My guest is Pratish Shah from AItech and we are talking all about Space 2.0. We examine the role that COTS play in Space 2.0 designs, the ruggedization design concerns that come along with these applications and why Pratish believes that we will see a greater convergence of Mil/Aero and Space 2.0 engineering practices in the future. Also this week, I investigate the age-old question: are we alone in the universe? And how AI may finally help us unlock the mystery.

Autonomous Driving in the Fast Lane: The Growing Need for an Architectural Redefinition of Computation Hardware

Autonomous driving takes center stage in this week's Fish Fry podcast! Steven Latré from imec and I are talking all about SWIR, lidar, mm-wave radar, sensor fusion, the growing need for architectural redefinition of computation hardware in autonomous driving and a whole lot more!

Solving a Perfect Storm of Challenges: How Multi-Die Systems Will Drive Next Generation Semiconductor Innovation

Yes, this week’s podcast is all about multi-die systems! Shekhar Kapoor, Senior Director of Product Management at Synopsys, joins me to chat about the challenges a transition to multi-die systems is looking to solve, the role that EDA and developments in manufacturing will have on the mass adoption of multi-die systems, and the variety of benefits that multi-die systems will bring to applications like AI processing, big data and more!