Episodes
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
This week’s podcast is all about military and aerospace designs! My first guest is Jake Braegelmann from New Wave DV. Jake and I discuss the advantages of PMC/XMC cards for modern warfare applications and the benefits that New Wave DV's Interface IP Cores and
FPGA/Interface cards bring to these designs. Also this week, Mike Walmsley from TE Connectivity joins me this week to chat about recent trends in video processing and the video protocols needed to support high resolution imaging. To finish things up, Billy Rhea from Airborn and I discuss connectors for rugged applications, what special design requirements are needed for these kinds of applications, and what plating materials are best for rugged designs.
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
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.
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Battlefield Ahead: How Direct RF Will Shape the Future of Electronic Warfare
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
This week’s Fish Fry podcast is all about direct RF, the critical needs for electronic warfare today, and the world's first liquid hydrogen flight. My guest Rodger Hosking (Mercury Systems) and I discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of direct RF and why Rodger believes that direct RF can revolutionize Military EW and radar systems. Also this week, I check out H2Fly’s new liquid hydrogen powered electric aircraft called the Pipistrel Taurus G4!
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
This week’s Fish Fry podcast is all about photonic-electronic integration! My guest Dr. Adam Carter (CEO - OpenLight Photonics) and I discuss why there is a growing need for greater photonic-electronic integration, the role that PICs and on-chip optical amplification play in LiDAR applications, and the details of OpenLight’s open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers. Also this week, I investigate a new experimental laser therapy that was able to boost short term memory.
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Flying to the Future: 100G VPX and the Alef Model A
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, my guest is Ivan Straznicky from Curtiss-Wright. Ivan and I chat all about 100G VPX, the challenges of a VPX transmission channel and what VPX Gen 6 and 7 will look like! Also this week, I investigate the Alef's Model A Flying car and why this new eVTOL could be the first flying car to make it into commercial airspace.
Friday May 12, 2023
Intelligent Modularity and a Holistic Approach for Rugged System Development
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
What do intelligent modularity, parametric design for reuse and reconfiguration in rugged system development, and robots inspired by jellyfish have in common? This week’s Fish Fry podcast! Bill Pilaud (LCR Embedded Systems) and I discuss how intelligent modularity can make chassis design more efficient, how parametric design can enable reuse and reconfiguration in rugged system development, and how these approaches reflect a holistic approach for military and aerospace design. Also this week, I check out a new robotic jellyfish developed by a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute For Intelligent Systems that can clean up ocean debris without any contact.
Friday Mar 03, 2023
All in the Timing: Spoofing, Jamming and A-PNT
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023
In this week's military and aerospace themed Fish Fry podcast, longtime friend of the show Nigel Forrester and I investigate the role of timing in SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) systems. We also discuss the benefits of assured positioning, navigation, and timing (A-PNT) for military applications, and why spoofing and jamming are critical challenges to solve in this domain. Also this week, I check out the details of a new Star Wars-esque hybrid, autonomous, military UAV developed by BAE Systems that can fold its wings and fit into a shipping container.
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Open standards take center stage in this week's Fish Fry podcast! Recorded in person at this year’s Embedded Tech Trends Conference, Dean Holman (President/Executive Director - VITA Technologies) joins me to discuss the newest developments in the VITA organization and why open standards are crucial to the development of intelligent embedded systems worldwide. Keeping with our open standards theme, Ken Grob and Mark Littlefield (Elma Electronic) also join me this week to discuss the benefits of SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) initiatives in the defense community and beyond!
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
This week my Fish Fry podcast is two parts open source, one part FT8 and one part ham radio! My guest is Colby Gilbert from RadioStack and we dig into the details of Maverick-603 - the first affordable, FT8 receiver with an open source RF chip designed and fabricated using open source chip tools! Also this week, I investigate a new crash avoidance sensor inspired by insects.
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
This week’s Fish Fry podcast is all about photonics and the future of optical computing! Maurice (Mo) Steinman from Lightelligence and I chat about why Lightelligence is on a mission to be the leader in silicon photonics computing, the details of PACE (Lightelligence’s first fully integrated optical computing platform), and what sets this computing platform apart from traditional silicon chips.