Episodes

Friday Sep 29, 2017
Smarter Homes with Siri
Friday Sep 29, 2017
Friday Sep 29, 2017
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we head into the heart of the IoT ecosystem: the smart home. Brian Bedrosian from Cypress Semiconductor joins us to discuss some of the details of the WICED (Wireless Connectivity for Embedded Devices) Studio platform. We chat about the addition of iCloud remote access to the WICED platform and all the cool stuff that access enables you to do. Also this week, we check out a new kickstarter campaign that hopes to launch the world’s first robotic home assistant with autonomous flight, voice commands, and anomaly detection.
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Links for September 29, 2017
More information about Cypress Semiconductor
Kickstarter Corner: Aire - World's First Self-Flying Drone for The Home
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Wireless Connectivity Front End Solutions

Friday Sep 22, 2017
Safety Abounds
Friday Sep 22, 2017
Friday Sep 22, 2017
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry of course! What that chicken really needs is an invisible hazardous environmental factors monitoring system because we all know that winter is coming, right? Dianne Kibbey (element14) joins Fish Fry this week to talk about all of this and more (sans the whole chicken part)! element14 just announced the winners of their Safe and Sound Design contest and Dianne is here to give us the skinny on this design challenge - from the rules to the winners and everything in between.Also this week, we check out the world’s first semiconductor in a rubber composite format, and how it could change the future of prosthetic limbs.
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Links for September 22, 2017
More information about element14
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Bourns RS-485 Port Protection

Friday Aug 25, 2017
The Great Shark Cafe
Friday Aug 25, 2017
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 Aug 18, 2017
Board to the Future
Friday Aug 18, 2017
Friday Aug 18, 2017
Links fo August 18, 2017
More information about AltiumLive

Friday Jul 28, 2017
New Layers of Complexity
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we get to have our functional safety verification cake and eat it too! We’re talking about one of my all-time favorite subjects: cars! Fish Fry welcomes Sanjay Pillay (CEO of Austemper) to talk about functional safety in the world of SoCs and ASICs, how to tackle fault injection campaigns, and the future of the verification of autonomous cars. Keeping with our automotive theme this week, we also discuss the details of element14’s new IoT on Wheels’ Design Challenge.
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Links for July 28, 2017
More information about Austemper Design
More information about element14's IoT on Wheels Design Challenge

Friday Jun 23, 2017
Design Automation for Fun and Profit (But Mostly Fun)
Friday Jun 23, 2017
Friday Jun 23, 2017
If you have attended the Design Automation Conference in the last couple years, you will know that the scope of this event reaches far beyond your standard EDA tools of years past. Sure, we’re still talking about design automation software, but now there’s a whole slew of IP vendors (and their software compatriots), IC packaging companies, embedded FPGA fabric distributors, and more. This week’s episode of Fish Fry is going to be no different. We’re doing a little soup to nuts - DAC style. First, we discuss RTL verification with John Molyneux (President of Blue Pearl Software). Next, we get into embedding FPGA fabric as IP with Owen Bateman (Quicklogic). Lastly, we talk about the newest advancements in IC packaging with John Park (Cadence Design Systems).
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Links for June 23, 2017
More information about the 2017 Design Automation Conference
More information about Blue Pearl Software
More information about QuickLogic
More information about Cadence Design Systems Virtuoso XXX

Friday Jun 16, 2017
Connecting the Next Billion
Friday Jun 16, 2017
Friday Jun 16, 2017
How many smartphones have you purchased in the last decade? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, MediaTek General Manager Finbarr Moynihan joins us to discuss how the smartphone revolution is facilitating new avenues of engineering experimentation. Finbarr and I investigate why form factors and feature sets are changing the engineering ecosystem, and how predictive technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will shape how we engineer the next generation of handheld devices. Keeping with our evolutionary theme this week, we also take a closer look at how the regenerative qualities of the planarian flatworm are changing our views of how space travel could affect our bodies.
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Links for June 16, 2017
More information about MediaTek

Friday Jun 09, 2017
Calling Alexa
Friday Jun 09, 2017
Friday Jun 09, 2017
Want a little more Alexa in your life? The Amazon Alexa Voice Service takes center stage in this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry. A new development kit from Microsemi could be just what you need to get Alexa into your next M2M design. Shahin Sadeghi (Microsemi) joins us to discuss the details of the newly launched AcuEdge Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service. Shahin and I chat about what is included in this development kit, how you can get your hands on one, and the details of Microsemi’s Timberwolf DSP solution which lies at the heart of this new development kit. Also this week, we check out how you can equip your Alexa device to play Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry!
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Links for June 9, 2017
More information about Microsemi
Microsemi Delivers AcuEdge Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service
Podbean | How to Listen to Podcasts with Alexa
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Flyover: Not Just for Superheroes — Samtec Twinax FlyOver Solutions

Friday Jun 02, 2017
Neural Networks and You
Friday Jun 02, 2017
Friday Jun 02, 2017
In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re diving deep into the world of neural networks. Pulin Desai (Cadence Design Systems) joins us to discuss the future of implementation of neural networks in embedded systems and how the constantly evolving market of neural networking is driving the need for specialized DSP technology. Also this week, we take a closer look at a colorful new experiment by research scientist Janelle Shane that brought together AI, 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors (along with their RGB values) and one interesting list of neural network-created colors.
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Links for June 2, 2017

Friday May 26, 2017
All Along the RTOS
Friday May 26, 2017
Friday May 26, 2017
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems
Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems
Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.
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
Cees Links – GreenPeak Technologies
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