Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

My podcast guest this week is Meghali Chopra, CEO and Co-Founder of Sandbox Semiconductor. Meghali and I investigate how Sandbox Semiconductor is empowering the semiconductor manufacturing industry with the help of user-friendly, domain-specific software solutions. Meghali and I also walk through the different components of their Sandbox Studio including their AI analysis and visualization application called Sandbox Oculus, the analytics provided by their platform, and Sandbox Envision which helps engineers to visually interact with their process models and data. Also, this week I take a closer look at the curious similarity between the memory processing of AI models and the hippocampus of the human brain.

We are diving headfirst into the world of RTL design this week! Rob Knoth (Cadence Design Systems) and I chat about RTL design and implementation issues facing engineers today, the details of Cadence’s Joules RTL Design Studio and the role that artificial intelligence plays in this solution. Also this week, I check out the world's first human brain-scale neuromorphic supercomputer.

FPGAs take center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! But not just any field programmable gate arrays - I’m talking about the Speedster7t FPGAs! My guests Scott Schweitzer and Ron Renwick from Achronix and I chat about why Achronix's FPGAs are particularly well suited for networking and SmartNIC tasks, the advantages of Achronix's accelerated network infrastructure code and the details of their new FPGA-Powered accelerated automatic speech recognition. 

The adoption of RISC-V is spreading. Versatility and “freedom to innovate” are powering the ecosystem. In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Frank Schirrmeister from Arteris and I explore how to enable better architecture optimization, manage different protocols with ease, and reduce interconnect area plus power consumption with network-on-chip IP.  Also this week, I check out new soft medical micro robots developed by a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo.

 

Longtime friend of the show Matt Burns joins me this week to discuss the future of embedded design. We investigate the role that PAM4 will play in this arena, the benefits that SoMs and CoMs bring to the embedded design ecosystem and why faster data rates and increased functionality will be driving forces in the future of embedded applications. 

 

Autonomous driving takes center stage in this week's Fish Fry podcast! Steven Latré from imec and I are talking all about SWIR, lidar, mm-wave radar, sensor fusion, the growing need for architectural redefinition of computation hardware in autonomous driving and a whole lot more!

Yes, this week’s podcast is all about multi-die systems! Shekhar Kapoor, Senior Director of Product Management at Synopsys, joins me to chat about the challenges a transition to multi-die systems is looking to solve, the role that EDA and developments in manufacturing will have on the mass adoption of multi-die systems, and the variety of benefits that multi-die systems will bring to applications like AI processing, big data and more!

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, I’m going deep into the world of atomic-level process engineering with Keren Kanarik from Lam Research. Keren and I discuss how artificial intelligence can help speed up the process and lower the cost of chip innovation. We also investigate the engineering and AI challenges this research was looking to solve and the strategies that Keren and her team at Lam Research developed over the course of this ground-breaking research. Also this week, I take a closer look at new research from University of Hawaii at Manoa that suggests that electrons from Earth may be forming water on the moon.

This week’s Fish Fry podcast is all about AI modeling for automotive applications.  Seth DeLand (MathWorks) and I discuss the common challenges that automotive engineers face when implementing simulation into AI modeling, which automotive applications would benefit most from simulation, and why data preparation is a crucial step in the AI workflow during model-based design for automotive applications. 

In this week's Fish Fry podcast, Jo De Boeck (imec) joins me to chat about one of the hottest topics at this year’s ITF World - autonomous driving! Jo and I discuss the biggest challenges surrounding perception in autonomous driving, why there is a need for new compute paradigms in this arena and how imec is strengthening a variety of technology ecosystems through system technology co-optimization.