Amelia&#8217;s Weekly Fish Fry

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

Jun Pei, CEO – Cepton Technologies

Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST

Clear and Present Signals

Posted by techfocus on December 21, 2018 Comments

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we are diving deep into the world of VPX. Dave Caserza, Michael Munroe, Ovidiu Mesesan (Elma Electronic) join me to chat about the future of VPX, the challenges of signal integrity in VPX backplane designs, and why your simulation is only as good as your assumptions. Also this week, we check out MIT's new super shrinking technology that can produce 3D nanoscale versions of much larger, custom-made objects.

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Links for December 21, 2018

More information about Elma Electronics

Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

Enter to win a “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PCB Design” T-Shirt!

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

Jun Pei, CEO – Cepton Technologies

Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST

Big World, Big Data

Posted by techfocus on August 24, 2018 Comments

“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran

What do RISC-V, data center innovation and artificial intelligence have in common? This week's podcast of course! Zvonimir Bandic (Western Digital) joins us to discuss how the RISC-V open architecture can inspire innovation in the world of data centers and neural networks. Alexander Redkin (Syntacore) and I chat about Syntacore's custom RISC-V processor IP and the details of their open source SDK. To wrap things up, we take a closer look at how Google is using it's DeepMind AI platform to cool data centers around the world. (Spoiler alert: DeepMind has taken over completely!)

Links for August 24, 2018

Safety-first AI for autonomous data centre cooling and industrial control

More information about Western Digital

More information about Syntacore

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Virtual Verification Smorgasbord

Posted by techfocus on August 6, 2018 Comments

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. -- Ruth Reichl

Are you ready for a virtual buffet of verification goodness? I hope so. In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re gobbling down as much verification as we possibly can fit on our podcastin’ plate. First up, Anupam Bakshi (Agnisys) joins us to dish on register specification, automatic memory verification, and UVM model integration. Next, Dave Kelf (Breker) serves up some delectable details about their new Trek Five product, the history of portable stimulus, and how Breker has been integral to the portable stimulus group at Accellera. To finish things up, Vladislav Palfy joins us to discuss the biggest trends in the world of formal verification.

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Links for August 2, 2018

More information about Agnisys

More information about Breker

More information about OneSpin

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Adventures in Micro Land

Posted by techfocus on July 20, 2018 Comments

In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re following a microcontroller yellow brick road to a land where analog reigns supreme. Dave Smith (Texas Instruments) joins us to discuss the details of the "Smart Analog Combo" included in in the MSP430 family, the benefits of the configurable signal-chain elements inherent in this solution, and why the FRAM memory found in this new family sets it apart from other solutions on the market. Also this week, we investigate how “nano-bubbles” are being used in cancer treatment therapy. To finish things up, we look at how the KSIM tool can help you choose the right capacitor for your design.

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Links for July 20, 2018

Integration at its core: New MSP430™ MCUs offer configurable signal-chain elements for sensing applications

Feature Article by Jim Turley: MCUs For the Indecisive - TI’s Microcontroller Family Has a Bit of Everything

Controlled gene and drug release from a liposomal delivery platform triggered by X-ray radiation (whitepaper)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: KSIM: Capacitors

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

To the Cloud and Beyond

Posted by techfocus on June 29, 2018 Comments

Watch out world! Fish Fry is taking DAC by storm! In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we tackle of some of biggest themes presented at this year’s show: EDA’s progression to cloud-based design tools, the increased adoption of the RISC-V architecture, and the ever-present IoT. Craig Johnson and Carl Siva (Cadence Design Systems) join us to chat about why now is the right time for the cloud to take off for EDA and some of the advantages and pitfalls that will come along with this movement to cloud-based tools. [remove extra space here] Rick O’Connor (RISC-V Foundation Chairman) also joins us to discuss the growing RISC-V ecosystem and some of the cool stuff offered at the DAC RISC-V Pavillon. Addressing the big IoT presence at this year’s show, we also chat with John Stabenow and Jeff Miller (Mentor) about the unique challenges IoT presents us as engineers and why their booth had a big ol’ car tire as an example of Tanner EDA in action. To wrap things up, we lay out our DAC Details You May Have Missed including best swag, best booth, and best coffee!

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Links for June 29, 2018

More information about DAC 2018

More information about Tanner EDA

More information about the Cadence Cloud - the Future of Electronic Design

Check out the EE Journal twitter feed from DAC 2018

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

More information about the ESD Alliance

There’s No Business Like EDA Business

Posted by techfocus on June 15, 2018 Comments

In this week’s podcast, we welcome Bob Smith from the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance to Fish Fry. Bob and I are chat about why the ESD Alliance and SEMI are joining forces, the ESD Alliance’s plans for DAC this year, and we even fit in a little discussion about wine. Also this week, we check out the new artificial intelligence and machine learning program at this year’s Design Automation Conference and I announce my “Do Not Miss List” for DAC 2018.

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Links for June 15, 2018

DAC Sponsor ESD Alliance to Become SEMI Strategic Association Partner; Invites Attendees to Learn More

More information about DAC 2018

SKY Talk: DARPA is Building a Silicon Compiler

Free Doulos Lunch'N'Learn Taster Session: Python for Scientific Computing and Deep Learning

The Future of Computing: Pushing the Limits of Physics, Architectures & Systems for AI

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro