Amelia&#39;s Weekly Fish Fry

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Friday Aug 24, 2018

Big World, Big Data

Friday Aug 24, 2018

“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran

What do RISC-V, data center innovation and artificial intelligence have in common? This week's podcast of course! Zvonimir Bandic (Western Digital) joins us to discuss how the RISC-V open architecture can inspire innovation in the world of data centers and neural networks. Alexander Redkin (Syntacore) and I chat about Syntacore's custom RISC-V processor IP and the details of their open source SDK. To wrap things up, we take a closer look at how Google is using it's DeepMind AI platform to cool data centers around the world. (Spoiler alert: DeepMind has taken over completely!)

Links for August 24, 2018

Safety-first AI for autonomous data centre cooling and industrial control

More information about Western Digital

More information about Syntacore

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Friday Aug 10, 2018

Programmability’s Promise

Friday Aug 10, 2018

Need programmability? Step right up my friends. In this week’s Fish Fry, we are investigating some of the newest and coolest applications using programmable technology today. Ted Marena (Microsemi) demonstrates how we can use PolarFire FPGAs in a machine-learning application and how this PolarFire FPGA-based board can also facilitate Linux and RISC-V development. Sundar Parameswaran (Falcon Computing) also joins us to discuss some really cool applications for FPGA acceleration (like machine learning and genomics!) To finish things up this week, we chat with Kent Orthner from Achronix. Kent and I chat about the rising tide of embedded FPGAs and how eFPGA technology can reduce development cost and accelerate time to market.

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Links for August 10, 2018

More information about Microsemi's PolarFire FPGAs

More information about ASIC Design Services from Microsemi

More information about Falcon Computing

More information about Speedcore™ eFPGA from Achronix

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Monday Aug 06, 2018

Virtual Verification Smorgasbord

Monday Aug 06, 2018

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. -- Ruth Reichl

Are you ready for a virtual buffet of verification goodness? I hope so. In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re gobbling down as much verification as we possibly can fit on our podcastin’ plate. First up, Anupam Bakshi (Agnisys) joins us to dish on register specification, automatic memory verification, and UVM model integration. Next, Dave Kelf (Breker) serves up some delectable details about their new Trek Five product, the history of portable stimulus, and how Breker has been integral to the portable stimulus group at Accellera. To finish things up, Vladislav Palfy joins us to discuss the biggest trends in the world of formal verification.

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Links for August 2, 2018

More information about Agnisys

More information about Breker

More information about OneSpin

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Friday Jul 27, 2018

The Challenge of Systemic Complexity

Friday Jul 27, 2018

We’re tackling the multi-faceted challenges of embedded software development in this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry. Simon Davidmann (CEO - Imperas) joins us to discuss how familiar debug environments can make all the difference in complex designs and why RISC-V architecture is gaining traction in the EE ecosystem. Next up, Rupert Baines (CEO - UltraSoC) joins us to chat about the details of their “Smart Monitor” IP blocks and how they can oversee all the “moving” parts of your design (and keep them all playing nicely together). Also this week, we check out a new wearable skin sensor developed at Stanford University that can detect stress levels through sweat.

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Links for July 27, 2018

More information about Imperas

More information about UltraSoC

Article: Molecularly selective nanoporous membrane-based wearable organic electrochemical device for noninvasive cortisol sensing

New Episode of Chalk Talk: MLCC Alternatives

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Friday Jul 13, 2018

Long Live the (8 Bit) King

Friday Jul 13, 2018

There are whispers that their time has come to fade away into the sunset. Time to drift away on the electronic wind with laser discs, Zune players, and VHS. But can the role of 8 bit MCUs in the electronic engineering ecosystem be dismissed so easily? Maybe not. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Nikos Zervas (CEO of CAST) joins us to discuss the changing role of 8 bit MCUs in the EE ecosystem, how CAST works with their partners to bring innovative IP cores to the market, and how their new GZIP data compression IP can reduce power consumption for a variety of designs. Also this week, we check out a new open source, autonomous car platform from StreetDrone and reveal how you can bring the convenience and ease of Arduino into the professional realm.

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Links for July 13, 2018

More information about CAST IP

More information about StreetDrone

Youtube Video: Wayve Renault Twizy in Action

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

More information about eSilicon

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Bringing Arduino Into the Professional Environment

Friday Jul 06, 2018

What (Invisible) Dreams May Come

Friday Jul 06, 2018

This week’s episode of Fish Fry, we take a closer look at two childhood dreams of mine: an invisibility cloak and robots that can think! (ie. artificial intelligence.) First up, we examine why an invisibility cloak is closer to reality than ever before, the physics behind invisibility/cloaking, and important differences between three new cloaking technologies. Also this week, I sit down with Carlos Macian from eSilicon and talk about how ASICs and GPUs are being used as building blocks for artificial intelligence designs. Carlos and I chat about the intersection of AI and network design, the role GPUs play in artificial intelligence design and why basketball is just like a game of chess.

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Links for July 6, 2018

Full-field broadband invisibility through reversible wave frequency-spectrum control (Whitepaper)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Debug and Verify FPGA Algorithms with MATLAB and Simulink

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

More information about DAC 2018

Friday Jun 29, 2018

To the Cloud and Beyond

Friday Jun 29, 2018

Watch out world! Fish Fry is taking DAC by storm! In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we tackle of some of biggest themes presented at this year’s show: EDA’s progression to cloud-based design tools, the increased adoption of the RISC-V architecture, and the ever-present IoT. Craig Johnson and Carl Siva (Cadence Design Systems) join us to chat about why now is the right time for the cloud to take off for EDA and some of the advantages and pitfalls that will come along with this movement to cloud-based tools. [remove extra space here] Rick O’Connor (RISC-V Foundation Chairman) also joins us to discuss the growing RISC-V ecosystem and some of the cool stuff offered at the DAC RISC-V Pavillon. Addressing the big IoT presence at this year’s show, we also chat with John Stabenow and Jeff Miller (Mentor) about the unique challenges IoT presents us as engineers and why their booth had a big ol’ car tire as an example of Tanner EDA in action. To wrap things up, we lay out our DAC Details You May Have Missed including best swag, best booth, and best coffee!

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Links for June 29, 2018

More information about Tanner EDA

More information about the Cadence Cloud - the Future of Electronic Design

Check out the EE Journal twitter feed from DAC 2018

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

More information about the ESD Alliance

Friday Jun 15, 2018

There's No Business Like EDA Business

Friday Jun 15, 2018

In this week’s podcast, we welcome Bob Smith from the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance to Fish Fry. Bob and I are chat about why the ESD Alliance and SEMI are joining forces, the ESD Alliance’s plans for DAC this year, and we even fit in a little discussion about wine. Also this week, we check out the new artificial intelligence and machine learning program at this year’s Design Automation Conference and I announce my “Do Not Miss List” for DAC 2018.

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Links for June 15, 2018

DAC Sponsor ESD Alliance to Become SEMI Strategic Association Partner; Invites Attendees to Learn More

More information about DAC 2018

SKY Talk: DARPA is Building a Silicon Compiler

Free Doulos Lunch'N'Learn Taster Session: Python for Scientific Computing and Deep Learning

The Future of Computing: Pushing the Limits of Physics, Architectures & Systems for AI

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

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

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

More information about Coventor - A Lam Research Company

Friday Jun 08, 2018

MEMS Spring Eternal

Friday Jun 08, 2018

What do electrostatic transduction, non-linear MEMS sensors, caffeine dosing strategies, and a glowing Death Star have in common? This here podcast! First up, we explore the Global MEMS Design Contest with Christine Dufour (Coventor - A LAM Research Company). Christine and I discuss the details of the winning designs and how design contests foster innovation in the electronic engineering ecosystem. Also this week, we check out an algorithm developed by the United States Army that aims to “optimize an ideal caffeine dosage strategy” and take a closer look at the “The World's Most Accurate Death Star Replica Firepit”.

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Links for June 8, 2018

Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss (Whitepaper)

Global MEMS Design Contest Winners Announced

The World's Most Accurate Death Star Replica Firepit by West Coast Firepits

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews