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EE Journal's Amelia Dalton breaks down each week's EE news in an informative, fun and engaging style.
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Friday Sep 26, 2014
Friday Sep 26, 2014
The music is loud, the rhythm - infectious, but it's the backbeat that has us tapping our toes and coming back for more. We're all jamming to the same IoT tune, but what keeps the cadence in 4/4 time? My guest this week is Phil Callahan from Silicon Labs and we discuss this dance called IoT, from the internet infrastructure laying down its chord progression to the super cool demo solos Silicon Labs will be showing at this year's X-fest. Also this week, we check out another musical melody that has finally revealed...the sound of a single atom.
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Links for September 26, 2014
Propagating phonons coupled to an artificial atom (Research Article)
More information about Silicon Labs IoT solutions
More information about Silicon Labs solutions for internet infrastructure
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Physically Aware Synthesis Techniques to Lower Power, Improve Timing, Congestion & Correlation
Friday Sep 19, 2014
Friday Sep 19, 2014
Like the venerable Kenny Rogers once said, “You have to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em…” In the verification game, much is the same. You have to know how to make the code, and you have to know how to break it. In this week’s Fish Fry, David Hsu (Synopsys) joins us to discuss the challenges of static verification and formal verification, how to “shift left”, and how to make code just to break it. Also this week, we investigate how Hierarchical Timing Analysis may solve your sign-off timing troubles once and and for all.
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Links for September 19, 2014
More information about Next-Generation Static and Formal Verification Solutions
New Episode of Chalk Talk - Abstract and Conquer: A New Alternative to Hierarchical Timing Analysis
Friday Sep 12, 2014
Friday Sep 12, 2014
Any engineer who is worth his or her salt probably knows the illustrious and (occasionally infamous) tale of Fairchild Semiconductor and the creation of Silicon Valley. Fairchild is certainly one of the most important companies in electronics history. But, what has Fairchild done for us lately? This week my guest is Saj Sahay of Fairchild Semiconductor, and we discuss three megatrends driving innovation in electronic design. It turns out Fairchild Semiconductor is back - with a bold new mission - and they’re doing some really cool stuff in the area of “Power Systems in Package”. As a bonus, we also find out what it’s like to take a run around not one but two olympic stadiums (without having to actually compete in the games). Additionally, we find out how your PCB can have its signal- and power-integrity cakes and eat them too... or something like that.
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Links for September 12, 2014
More information about the history of Fairchild Semiconductor
More information about Motion SPM® Smart Power Modules
More information about Smart Power Stage
More information about Industrial Motion and Motor Control
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Integrating Electronic Design Analysis Upstream, Downstream, and Sideways
Friday Sep 05, 2014
Friday Sep 05, 2014
Dateline: The 5th of September. Time: 2100 hours. We're on the hunt. No, we’re not hunting the mysterious Yeti, the Loch Ness monster, or heck even the ever-elusive EUV. This time, we're looking for some HLS. My guest this week is Mark Milligan from Calypto. Mark joins Fish Fry for the very first time to bring HLS into the light, into the world, and into the caring hands of...Google? Oh yes. Also this week, we delve into the deeply nerdy realm of sub-atomic particle jitter and investigate how the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is hoping to solve an age-old existential question: How many dimensions do we really live in? (Spoiler alert: The space-time continuum may actually be a quantum system made up of countless tiny bits of information.)
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Links for September 5, 2014
More information about Calypto
Do we live in a 2-D hologram? - New Fermilab experiment will test the nature of the universe
New Episode of Chalk Talk - Product-Centric Design with Virtual Prototyping