Amelia&#39;s Weekly Fish Fry

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

More information about GDCA

Friday Feb 08, 2019

When Tomorrow Never Comes

Friday Feb 08, 2019

You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
“The Gambler” - Kenny Rogers

Maybe the writing is on the wall. Maybe the truth is hidden in between the lines of your BOM. Maybe you really want to find another way but you don’t know where to start. Obsolescence may be bleeding your company dry but there is another way to deal with your end of life designs. In this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry, we attack the issues surrounding obsolescence and ad hoc sustainment with Ethan Plotkin (CEO - GDCA). Ethan and I discuss why obsolescence is like putting air in leaky tire and why changing the minds of our embedded system designers will be the true key to innovation. Also this week, we check out a new plant-inspired, tendril-equipped robot coming out of the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia that can climb and curl around objects.

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Links for February 8, 2019

The first tendril-like soft robot able to climb

A variable-stiffness tendril-like soft robot based on reversible osmotic actuation (Whitepaper)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Logic Innovations for the Industrial Control Space

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

The DNA of an Artificial Intelligence SoC

Friday Jan 18, 2019

Architecting the Interference

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

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

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

More information about LDRA

Friday Jan 11, 2019

Security from the Ground Up

Friday Jan 11, 2019

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
- Author Unknown

Hello, my name is Amelia and I have read at least four hundred press releases about automotive design this week. It seems that this year's Consumer Electronics Show has been taken over by automotive design. But behind the pomp and sparkle of CES lies the important stuff - the software that keeps us safe and secure. In this week's episode of Fish Fry, my first guest Jim McElroy (LDRA) and I chat about security vulnerability prevention, automotive coding standards, and the power of verification automation. Bill Lamie (Express Logic) also joins us to discuss challenges of standard compliance in the IoT space and how Express Logic’s X-Ware IoT platform can help your next IoT design security from the RTOS on up.

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Links for January 11, 2019

More information about Express Logic

New Episode of Chalk Talk: ST-Teseo LIV3F GNSS Module for IoT Positioning

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

More information about the Cadence Verification Suite

Friday Jan 04, 2019

The Road to 5G

Friday Jan 04, 2019

"5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution." - Borje Ekholm

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we travel down the 5G road with Frank Schirrmeister (Cadence Design Systems). Frank and I are dishing the dirt aboutwhat it will take to implement 5G systems and how architecture analysis and performance verification will be crucial to a smooth road ahead. Also this week, we announce the winners of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to PCB Design" T-shirt giveaway!

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Links for January 4, 2019

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

More information about Atmosic Technologies

Friday Dec 07, 2018

Battery Free for You and Me

Friday Dec 07, 2018

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we take a closer look at a IoT landscape that could not only reduce our battery power dependence but could also make a “forever battery” a reality. David Su (CEO - Atomic Technologies) and I discuss Atmosic Technologies’ holistic approach to power management, the details of their lowest power radio technology, and how their controlled energy harvesting is integral to their new SoC families. Also this week, we check out Kickstarter’s Make 100 Campaign and how FPGAs can help get your next IoT design off the ground.

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Links for December 7, 2018

More information about Kickstarter's Make 100 Campaign

New Episode of Chalk Talk - Accelerating a Smart and Connected World

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

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

More information about the MITRE Corp.

Friday Nov 16, 2018

Privacy by Design

Friday Nov 16, 2018

Did you know that the United States is the world’s biggest target for cybersecurity attacks? According to Ponemon’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study, 38% of the global cyber attacks were aimed at the United States. This study also found that the average time it takes to identify a data breach is 196 days. Yeah, let that just sink in for a second. So can we turn around this whole situation? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, my guest Cynthia Wright (Principle Cybersecurity Engineer at the MITRE Corporation) and I are talking about the many layers of cybersecurity in IoT, what "The Weaponization of Everything" is all about, and why privacy by design, security by design and resiliency by design will play a vital part in the future of Internet of Things.

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Links for November 16, 2018

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Analog to Digital Converters: A Resolution Revolution

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

Cadence Launches New Tensilica DNA 100 Processor IP Delivering Industry-Leading Performance and Power Efficiency for On-Device AI Applications

Friday Nov 09, 2018

The Significance of Sparsity

Friday Nov 09, 2018

What has sparsity done for you lately? In this episode of Fish Fry, we investigate the challenges that surround on-device artificial intelligence processing. Megha Daga (Cadence Design Systems) and I discuss the why the presence of zeroes is becoming more and more important in the development of neural networks and how sparsity can be used for bandwidth and compute reduction. In this week’s News You May Have Missed, we check out how the the University of Adelaide is making huge strides in quantum memory technology with a little help from an atomic tractor beam and the world’s first “waveguide trap”.

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Links for November 9, 2018

More information about how the University of Adelaide is trapping atoms, not spaceships, with tractor beams

High-Efficiency Cold-Atom Transport into a Waveguide Trap (Research paper)

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

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

More information about the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress

Friday Nov 02, 2018

On Your Mark, Get Set, MEMS!

Friday Nov 02, 2018

This week’s podcast is coming to you from the land of vineyards, grapevines, and MEMS magnetic field sensors -- Napa Valley, California! In this episode of Fish Fry, we have an interview with each of the entrants of this year’s MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress Technology Showcase (think of it like a mini "Shark Tank" for MEMS stuff). We've got the skinny on a new wearable continuous blood glucose monitor, a new wearable brain impact monitor, new "smart" skates, and more!

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Links for November 2, 2018

More information about the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress' Technology Showcase

More information about Alertgy

More information about Scorched ICE

More information about SportFitz

More information about N5 Sensors

Asset Tracking Demo: Track the journey of a package using Motion Sensors

Follow EE Journal’s Live Coverage of the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress

Fish Fry Executive Interviews