Episodes

Friday Sep 13, 2019
Up Up and Away
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
“I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.” - Marc Benioff
They say every cloud has a silver lining but does every silver lining have a cloud? In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Craig Johnson (Cadence Design Systems) joins us to discuss a variety of cloud strategies. We investigate how priorities and usage models should influence our choice of cloud models and why different clouds for different folks is always the way to go. Also this week, we check out how a group of researchers at the University of ILL at Urbana-Champaign may discovered the key to the future of long distance space travel. (Spoiler Alert: SALT!)

Friday Aug 23, 2019
PCB Village Square
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Judy Warner gives us a special sneak peek into this year’s AltiumLive PCB Design Summit. Judy and I discuss the details of this third annual PCB design conference, how the goals of this conference have evolved over the years, and why Judy hopes this event will become the PCB Village Square of the EE industry. Also this week, we investigate a new Kickstarter campaign that hopes to cure cancer - with a little help from the International Space Station.

Friday May 03, 2019
Backward Balance Board
Friday May 03, 2019
Friday May 03, 2019
Sometimes we have to find a way around our design challenges. Sometimes finding the equilibrium between our design legacy and the futuristic stuff we want to do is harder than we we expected. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Nigel Forrester (Concurrent Technologies) joins us to discuss the ongoing security challenges in the world of embedded computing and how we can balance the past with the present and the future. Also this week, we check an amazing new discovery out of the University of Arizona that challenges some of our prevalent theories about how dying stars seed the universe.

Friday Apr 05, 2019
The Art of (Rugged) Communication
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we are delving into the world of RFSoCs, radar, ruggedization, and reliability. Rodger Hosking (Pentek) joins us to discuss the details of the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC and we take a closer look at the benefits and challenges of this unique single-chip adaptable radio platform. Also this week, Justin Moll (Pixus Technologies) and I talk about how the various levels of ruggedization can pose specific thermal challenges in our designs and how the right enclosure can make all the difference.

Friday Feb 01, 2019
"The Future is Now" - Embedded Tech Trends 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker
I just flew in from San Diego and boy is my VPX tired! Coming to you from the Embedded Tech Trends Conference in Southern California, this week’s episode of Fish Fry is all about how open system architectures can drive innovation in the world of embedded design. First up, Mark Littlefield (Kontron) and I chat about the secrets of the success of open system architectures, the pros and cons of OpenVPX, and what SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) is doing to help solve some of the myriad of challenges we are facing in this arena. Also this week, I sit down with Jess Isquith (President/CEO - PICMG) and discuss the the power of open modular computing standards and the meaning behind her session at this year’s Embedded Tech Trends Conference called “The Past is Prologue”.
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Links for February 1, 2018
More information about the Embedded Tech Trends Conference
More information about Kontron
More information about SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture™)
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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 Dec 21, 2018
Clear and Present Signals
Friday Dec 21, 2018
Friday Dec 21, 2018
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
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 Aug 24, 2018
Big World, Big Data
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
“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
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
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

Monday Aug 06, 2018
Virtual Verification Smorgasbord
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
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 OneSpin
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
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

Friday Jul 20, 2018
Adventures in Micro Land
Friday Jul 20, 2018
Friday Jul 20, 2018
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
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
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
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

Friday Jun 29, 2018
To the Cloud and Beyond
Friday Jun 29, 2018
Friday Jun 29, 2018
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
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
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