Amelia&#39;s Weekly Fish Fry

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Friday May 18, 2018

Silicon Carbide's Time to Shine

Friday May 18, 2018

We’re running the gamut of electronic design in this week’s episode of Fish Fry. Chris Dries (CEO - UnitedSiC) and I discuss some common cascode issues facing hardware designers today and what UnitedSiC is doing to help ease the pain of those issues. We also chat about the advantages (and limitations) of silicon carbide and why he thinks silicon carbide will become the semiconductor of choice for power electronics. Also this week, we check out a tiny but mighty insect-sized robot called the RoboFly. Coming out of the University of Washington, this robotic flying machine is only slightly heavier than a toothpick and is powered by a laser. Yes, you heard me right - a laser!

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Links for May 18, 2018

More information about UnitedSiC

The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off (University of Washington News)

The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off (Youtube Video)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Via to Via Coupling Through Plane Cavities

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Friday Apr 27, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and the Need for Speed

Friday Apr 27, 2018

This week’s episode of Fish Fry is all about artificial intelligence, machine vision, and basketball! Pulin Desai (Cadence Design Systems) and I discuss a couple of use cases that require a mix of both vision and artificial intelligence and why our “need for speed” has pushed for new design requirements in the mobile, AR/VR, surveillance, automotive and drone/robotics markets. We also dive into the details of a thesis by Simone Francia at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia that uses deep learning to classify basketball player actions on the court. Keeping with our AI theme this week, we’ll take a look at a plan to protect the US power grid with AI-powered tower-mounted robots.

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Links for April 27, 2018

More information about JUMP: An advanced sensorial platform to renew the practice and use of sport, wellness, rehabilitation and educational games

Video of JUMP in action

Cadence Boosts Vision and AI Performance with New Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP IP

Using Artificial Intelligence to Protect the U.S. Power Grid

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Energy Infrastructure

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

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

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Friday Apr 20, 2018

Free is a Very Good Price!

Friday Apr 20, 2018

When I was a kid, a local furniture mogul gave away free haircuts to entice customers into his showroom. The haircuts were all the same, and on Monday mornings at school it was easy to tell whose mom went furniture shopping over the weekend. Free is an interesting price point. It can mean incredible savings for some really cool stuff, or it can mean a buzz cut that made you look suspiciously like the owner of the local furniture store.

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we take a closer look at Ultra Librarian - the world’s largest library of verified EDA symbols, footprints, and 3D models, and we'll find out why EMA Design Automation has made their robust EDA library free of charge. Also this week, we'll look at a new pyroelectric energy conversion prototype unveiled by the University of California Berkeley that could transform waste heat into a renewable source of energy.

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Links for April 20, 2018

More information about EMA Design Automation

EMA Provides Free Access to Ultra Librarian–the World’s Largest Library of Verified EDA Symbols, Footprints, and 3D Models

Fish Fry: It's Getting Hot In Here - New Technologies for Energy Harvesting and Thermal Management

New Episode of Chalk Talk: AVX Hi CV SMD Capacitor Solutions

Friday Mar 02, 2018

Reality is Not Linear

Friday Mar 02, 2018

At what point in the creation of a chip does physical design actually begin? (Spoiler Alert: answers may vary.) In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Dave Stratman and I discuss the ongoing challenges of the physical design process, why convergent design flows are critical for today’s ever shrinking process nodes, and how form factor and the environment around the end customer affects physical design. We also check out the details of the world’s first 3nm test chip rolled out by Imec and Cadence Design Systems this week.

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Links for March 2, 2018

More information about Digital Design and Signoff (Cadence Design Systems)

Imec and Cadence Tape Out Industry’s First 3nm Test Chip

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

Friday Feb 16, 2018

DVCon and the Big Data Problem

Friday Feb 16, 2018

Design and verification technologies are front and center in this week’s episode of Fish Fry. DVCon General Chair Dennis Brophy joins us with a special sneak peak of the 2018 Design and Verification Conference. Dennis and I chat about how the biggest trends are reflected at DVCON, including machine learning, automotive technologies, and big data analysis. We also discuss the addition of shorter format workshops to the conference program, as well as the breadth of tutorial topics and panel discussions offered this year.

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Links for February 16, 2018

More info about DVCon

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Moving Between FPGA and ASIC with High-Level Synthesis

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

Friday Feb 02, 2018

Space: The Final COTS Frontier

Friday Feb 02, 2018

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we’re headed hundreds of kilometers above the earth and we’re bringing commercial off-the-shelf parts with us! My guest Doug Patterson (Aitech) and I take a closer look at how radiation affects space-destined designs, we examine the difference between space-grade and space-qualified parts, and we also chat about how COTS products are being used in space applications today. Keeping with our starry-eyed theme this week, we also check out why it snows "sunscreen" on a newly discovered “Hot Jupiter” exoplanet called Kepler 13Ab.

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Links for February 2, 2018

More information about the Embedded Tech Trends Conference

More information about Aitech

Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen

Evidence for Atmospheric Cold-trap Processes in the Noninverted Emission Spectrum of Kepler-13Ab Using HST/WFC3 (Whitepaper)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: GaN Power Devices

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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

Friday Jan 19, 2018

Climbing The PowerTree™

Friday Jan 19, 2018

From source to sink to the current in-between, this week’s Fish Fry is all about power delivery and how we can solve our power delivery network problems. My guest is Brad Griffin (Cadence Design Systems) and we’re talking about how we can catch the PDN issues earlier in our design cycles and how “shifting left” can make all the difference in your next PCB design. Keeping with our powerful theme this week, we check out new smart window technology coming out of Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in Germany called LaWin (large area fluidic windows). We investigate how this technology is different from electrochromic smart window technology, and how (with a little help from magnetic iron nanoparticles) LaWin could revolutionize the total cost of energy consumption in buildings across the world.

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Links for January 19, 2018

More information about Cadence® Sigrity™ PowerDC™ and PowerTree

Whitepaper: A Large-Area Smart Window with Tunable Shading and Solar-Thermal Harvesting Ability Based on Remote Switching of a Magneto-Active Liquid

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Renesas Synergy™ Platform

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

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

Friday Dec 15, 2017

Enabling A Sixth Sense

Friday Dec 15, 2017

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we set our sights on the evolving ecosystem of the MEMS and sensors landscape. First up, Marcellino Gemelli (Bosch Sensortec) joins us to discuss how sensor bots can add intelligence to our sensing systems and why the management of artificial intelligence will be crucial to the further development of the MEMS-enhanced technologies. Also this week, we welcome Michelle Bourke (LAM Research) and Steven Breit (Coventor) to Fish Fry. We investigate the changing topography of the MEMS ecosystem and how modeling technologies can help shorten the lifecycle of MEMS process development.

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Links for December 15, 2017

More information about Bosch Sensortec

More information about LAM Research

More information about Coventor

Lam Research Completes Acquisition of Coventor, a Leader in Simulation and Modeling Solutions

New Episode of Chalk Talk: RSL10 Product Family – New Bluetooth Low Energy Solutions

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Mike Wishart, CEO – efabless

More information about Achronix

Friday Nov 10, 2017

Go Configure and Multiply

Friday Nov 10, 2017

Where else can you go for not one but two electronic engineering interviews with two of the coolest executives in the biz? Yep, right here. First up, Robert Blake (Achronix - CEO) and I discuss the details of their Speedcore custom blocks, the issues surrounding the efficiency of computation in SoC design, and the benefits of FPGA acceleration core integration. Also this week, Mike Wishart (efabless - CEO) gives us all the info about their new design challenge series called “Go Configure”. Mike and I chat about the who, what, when, and how of this contest: what is involved, what kind of engineers should participate, and what motivated efabless to create this design contest.

Links for November 11, 2017

Achronix Speedcore Custom Blocks Supercharge Data Acceleration Systems

More information about efabless

More information about The Go Configure Design Challenge Series

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.