Amelia&#39;s Weekly Fish Fry

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Xin Song, CEO - Bottos

Chris Dries, CEO – UnitedSiC

Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Friday Jun 22, 2018

Enabling Intelligence and Designing for a Cause

Friday Jun 22, 2018

Work it harder

Make it better

Do it faster

Makes us stronger

-- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk

The Internet of things once again takes center stage in this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry. First up, we chat with Dianne Kibbey (Newark element14) about the Design for a Cause Design Challenge: Newark element14’s newest design challenge that encourages the development of assistive technologies. Also this week, Martin Croome (VP of Business Development at GreenWaves Technologies) joins us to discuss the details of GreenWaves’ GAP8 IoT Application Processor and the how open source innovation has been integral to the success of this fabless semiconductor company.

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Links for June 22, 2018

More information about Newark element14's Design For a Cause Design Challenge

More information about GreenWaves Technologies

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Intelligent Power Modules

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Friday Apr 27, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and the Need for Speed

Friday Apr 27, 2018

This week’s episode of Fish Fry is all about artificial intelligence, machine vision, and basketball! Pulin Desai (Cadence Design Systems) and I discuss a couple of use cases that require a mix of both vision and artificial intelligence and why our “need for speed” has pushed for new design requirements in the mobile, AR/VR, surveillance, automotive and drone/robotics markets. We also dive into the details of a thesis by Simone Francia at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia that uses deep learning to classify basketball player actions on the court. Keeping with our AI theme this week, we’ll take a look at a plan to protect the US power grid with AI-powered tower-mounted robots.

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Links for April 27, 2018

More information about JUMP: An advanced sensorial platform to renew the practice and use of sport, wellness, rehabilitation and educational games

Video of JUMP in action

Cadence Boosts Vision and AI Performance with New Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP IP

Using Artificial Intelligence to Protect the U.S. Power Grid

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Energy Infrastructure

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Friday Feb 23, 2018

It's Getting Hot in Here

Friday Feb 23, 2018

We know that energy is all around us, but how exactly do we harness it? To start things off this week, we take a closer look at an interesting new energy harvesting technology developed at MIT called a “thermal resonator.” By utilizing the gradual ambient temperature changes that occur over the course of a day, this technology can literally pull electricity out of the thin air. We check out how this “thermal resonator” works and what sets it apart from other thermoelectric applications found on the market today. Keeping with our thermal theme, we also chat with Thierry Wastiaux (Interface Concept) about the best practices for thermal management in HPEC VPX Systems.

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Links for February 23, 2018

System Draws Power from Daily Temperature Swings: Technology Developed at MIT Can Harness Temperature Fluctuations of Many Kinds to Produce Electricity

More information about Interface Concept

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Enabling IoT Applications with Bluetooth 5 and Thread

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Harold Blomquist, CEO - Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO - efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder - Menlo Micro

Friday Jan 19, 2018

Climbing The PowerTree™

Friday Jan 19, 2018

From source to sink to the current in-between, this week’s Fish Fry is all about power delivery and how we can solve our power delivery network problems. My guest is Brad Griffin (Cadence Design Systems) and we’re talking about how we can catch the PDN issues earlier in our design cycles and how “shifting left” can make all the difference in your next PCB design. Keeping with our powerful theme this week, we check out new smart window technology coming out of Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in Germany called LaWin (large area fluidic windows). We investigate how this technology is different from electrochromic smart window technology, and how (with a little help from magnetic iron nanoparticles) LaWin could revolutionize the total cost of energy consumption in buildings across the world.

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Links for January 19, 2018

More information about Cadence® Sigrity™ PowerDC™ and PowerTree

Whitepaper: A Large-Area Smart Window with Tunable Shading and Solar-Thermal Harvesting Ability Based on Remote Switching of a Magneto-Active Liquid

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Renesas Synergy™ Platform

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Harold Blomquist, CEO - Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO - efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder - Menlo Micro

Friday Dec 15, 2017

Enabling A Sixth Sense

Friday Dec 15, 2017

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we set our sights on the evolving ecosystem of the MEMS and sensors landscape. First up, Marcellino Gemelli (Bosch Sensortec) joins us to discuss how sensor bots can add intelligence to our sensing systems and why the management of artificial intelligence will be crucial to the further development of the MEMS-enhanced technologies. Also this week, we welcome Michelle Bourke (LAM Research) and Steven Breit (Coventor) to Fish Fry. We investigate the changing topography of the MEMS ecosystem and how modeling technologies can help shorten the lifecycle of MEMS process development.

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Links for December 15, 2017

More information about Bosch Sensortec

More information about LAM Research

More information about Coventor

Lam Research Completes Acquisition of Coventor, a Leader in Simulation and Modeling Solutions

New Episode of Chalk Talk: RSL10 Product Family – New Bluetooth Low Energy Solutions

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Mike Wishart, CEO – efabless

Friday Dec 01, 2017

Vampire Power and the Curious Case of the MuxCapacitor

Friday Dec 01, 2017

There’s an elephant in the room. You know it and I know it too. Whether we start with the trunk or the tail, the truth is clear. Our power grids are overtaxed, transformer technology has hit its limit, and “vampire power” (stand-by power wasted) is becoming a bigger problem than ever before. What can we do about our aging, overtaxed, and under-loved power grid? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Harold Blomquist (CEO of Helix Semiconductors) joins us to discuss how capacitive conversion, MuxCapacitors, and less waste can strengthen our peaked power grids.

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Links for December 1, 2017

More information about Helix Semiconductors

New Episode of Chalk Talk: USB Type-C and Power Delivery

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Mike Wishart, CEO – efabless

More information about FATHOM

Friday Aug 25, 2017

The Great Shark Cafe

Friday Aug 25, 2017

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...”- Peter Benchley, Jaws

What do 3D printing and great white sharks have in common? This week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Shark Fry of course! My guest Rich Stump (FATHOM) and I chat about how FATHOM is working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to create 3D printed video tracking devices for great white sharks in the California coastal region. Rich and I also discuss the details of the Great White Shark Café Challenge and the future of 3D printing in the world of oceanic research."

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Links for August 25, 2017

Shark Tracking and 3D Printed Device (Blog by Silas Alexander - FATHOM)

How to tag a Jellyfish? (Blog by Monterey Bay Aquarium)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: New Defense and Aerospace Products

Friday May 05, 2017

House of the Rising Sun

Friday May 05, 2017

What do carbon nanotubes, electromagnetic waves, and solar cell technology have in common? This week’s episode of Fish Fry, of course! Please join me and NovaSolix Founder and CEO Lawrence Cooke as we bask in the glow of NovaSolix's new solar cell technology. Larry and I discuss how their technology can collect light as electromagnetic waves, the details of their carbon nanotubes that are used as antennas to absorb the entire spectrum of light, and how this unique technology will be able to produce more energy than previous solar cell technologies.

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Links for May 5, 2017

More information about NovaSolix

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Industrial IoT – Smart Factory

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Cees Links – GreenPeak Technologies

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Mike Wishart, CEO – efabless