Episodes
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Algorithmic Acceleration and The Next Phase of Moore’s Law
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we take a closer look at deep learning model acceleration and the future of Moore’s Law. First up, Tom Smelker (Mercury Systems) and I discuss modular chip design and why he thinks it will be crucial to the next phase of Moore’s Law. Next, we investigate AI hardware and algorithm acceleration with Dr. Mohamed Bergach and Marc Littlefield (Kontron). To finish things up, we take a closer look at the unique design challenges of micro air vehicles and how new research from China's Changzhou and Jiangsu universities could make a sun-powered flapping wing a reality.
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Have Power, Will Travel
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. - Bruce Lee
We’re getting all charged up in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! First up, Chris Giovanniello (Co-Founder, SVP Marketing - Menlo Micro) joins me to discuss trends in power management and how their ideal switch technology can not only save you a whole lot of power, but also help you with your SWaP-C requirements as well. Keeping with our powerful theme this week, Jerry Hovdestad, David Gash (Behlman Electronics) and I chat about standardization in the SOSA power supplies and the benefits of intelligent power supply reporting.
Friday Feb 07, 2020
The Sustainment Slog
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Friday Feb 07, 2020
“It is what it is till it ain’t” - Mac Miller, 2019
When does sustainment become a slog? When does the bottom one percent of your sales start becoming too much to bear? In this week’s Fish Fry, we are diving into the world of OEM product pruning with Ethan Plotkin and Siku Thompson from GDCA. Ethan, Siku and I discuss supply chain trust, integrated sustainment, and the hidden costs associated with ad hoc orders. Also this week, we take a closer look at some revolutionary new research from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab that is creating drinking water from atmospheric humidity.
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Super Standards to the Rescue!
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
In this week’s podcast, we are tackling two of the biggest themes at this year’s Embedded Tech Trends Conference: SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) and artificial intelligence processing at the edge. First up, I take a closer look at SOSA with Rodger Hoskins from Pentek. Rodger and I discuss the role SOSA will have in the warfighting technology, what the future holds for this open systems architecture, and what exactly the “Grey Box Concept” is all about. Next up, Doug Patterson from AiTech and I discuss some real world examples of AI processing at the edge, the importance of situational awareness, and why surveillance and reconnaissance plays an important role across many different application areas.
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 Mar 29, 2019
Wheels Up!
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 29, 2019
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Scott Engle (Mercury Systems) and I investigate the coexistence of safety and security in world of avionics and why the key to security in aviation may be tied to the reclassification of security-related failures. Keeping with our aviation theme, we also take a closer look at how FORDISC (a windows-based interactive software program) may have just solved the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart once and for all.
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Keep 'Em Separated
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Multicore processing takes center stage in this week’s episode of Fish Fry. Richard Jaenicke (Green Hills Software) and I discuss the challenges of multicore processing in avionics applications and how we can address multiple layers of safety certification on a software level. We also chat about the power of testing in avionics and and why you can’t mitigate multicore interference at the application level. Also this week, we investigate the details of Lockheed Martin’s new research project called “Self-Assembly of Nanostructures for Tunable Materials.”
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Links for March 1, 2019
More information about Green Hills Software
Lockheed Martin Is Reprogramming Cells To Bioproduce New Materials - $10 Million Army Research Contract Advances Precision Biodesign
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Powering the Future: Always Aware SIMO PMICs
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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 Feb 15, 2019
When You Just Can’t Fix It
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we gaze up at the starlit sky and dream of space exploration. We chat with Noel Dube (Reflex CES) about the differences between Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO) and Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) and investigate the unique challenges each of these orbits present designers today. We also discuss the role of optical transceivers and interconnects will play in the future of satellite installation. In the second part of our episode, we explore the world’s first refuel-able steam engine system for spacecraft propulsion developed by Honeybee Robotics and University of Central Florida planetary research scientist Phil Metzger. We take a closer look at how this new prototype works and how it could revolutionize space exploration as we know it.
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Links for February 15, 2019
NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End
Steam-Powered Asteroid Hoppers Developed through UCF Collaboration
More information about Honeybee Robotics
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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 Feb 08, 2019
When Tomorrow Never Comes
Friday Feb 08, 2019
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
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 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