Episodes

Friday Sep 06, 2019
FPGA Fiesta
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Friday Sep 06, 2019
We’re serving up a double helping of field programmable goodness in this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry podcast. Dianne Kibbey (element14) and I dish about this year’s Path II Programmable design series. We discuss the details of this innovative program and how you sign up to participate in this FPGA-based program. Also this week, Geoff Tate (CEO - Flex Logix) and I chat about the history eFPGAs and the motivations behind the launch of their new nnMAX™ Inference Acceleration Architecture and InferX™ X1 Edge Inference Co-Processor.

Friday Aug 02, 2019
Seeing is Believing
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
What has SLAM done for you lately? If you are working on a vision processing application, quite a lot most likely! In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we welcome Pulin Desai from Cadence Design Systems. Pulin and I chat about the trends driving the need for more vision processing, the current challenges associated with SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) and when he thinks it is best to use an AI accelerator in your next vision of artificial intelligence design. Also this week, we check out how a multinational team of research scientists have created the first IC that can emulate the structure of the brain with artificial synapses the a little help from optogenetics.

Friday Jun 28, 2019
The Next Generation of Engineering
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
“Man’s relationship with technology is complex. We always invent technology, but then technology comes back and reinvents us” ― Atul Jalan
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we investigate the complex role of machine learning in the future of design automation. Norman Chang (ANSYS) joins us to discuss how machine learning will not only change the course of the evolution of EDA but also how we deal with design for reliability and FinFET degradation. Also this week, we check out a newly discovered form of electronic matter called the Vestigial Nematic State and how it was identified with a little help from a suite of especially trained neural networks.

Friday Jun 21, 2019
Up Where We Belong
Friday Jun 21, 2019
Friday Jun 21, 2019
Fish Fry is flying high this week! We start things off with a little News You May Have Missed where we investigate the technology behind Glasgow, Scotland-based Kite Power Solutions. We take a closer look at out how they plan to make kite energy a commercial reality by 2025, and why their high-flying wind energy plans just got a big boost from the Imperial Department of Aeronautics and the UK’s National Wind Tunnel Facility. Also this week, Joe Sawicki (Mentor Graphics) and I are chatting up a storm about EDA in the cloud and why speed and scalability are super important for cloud EDA deployments.

Friday Feb 22, 2019
Hey! Hey! What Did you Say?
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Speech recognition is becoming more and more critical in IoT designs these days. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Gerard Andrews (Cadence Design Systems) and I are talking about the trends in voice control user interfaces, the advantages of locally-enabled speech recognition, and the differences between neural network processing for audio and imaging applications. Also this week, we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special selection of neural network-created candy heart slogans and pick up lines.
Links for February 21, 2019
More information about HiFi 5 DSP
Candy Heart messages written by a neural network
New paint colors invented by neural network
Craft beers named by a neural network
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Introducing Cadence Cloud Portfolio
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Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek
Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper
Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor
Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire
Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro
Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly
Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA
Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance
Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation
Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve
Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

Friday Jan 18, 2019
Architecting the Interference
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.” —Ginni Rometty
Artificial intelligence takes center stage in this week’s episode of Fish Fry. Ron Lowman (Synopsys - Author of The DNA of an Artificial Intelligence SoC) joins us to discuss the similarities inherent in AI chip design, the challenges of the multiple subsegments of AI, and what the next couple years holds for our AI chip design progress. Also this week, we take a closer look at DARPA’s new KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program. We investigate how it will work (with a little help from a bunch of humans) and how it may (some day) be able to discern patterns of connected events to help mankind better understand the world around us.
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Links for January 18, 2019
The DNA of an Artificial Intelligence SoC
More information about DesignWare IP for Artificial Intelligence
More information about KAIROS - Generating Actionable Understanding of Real-World Phenomena with AI
More information about KAIROS Proposers Day
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Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek
Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper
Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor
Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire
Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro
Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly
Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA
Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance
Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation
Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve
Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies