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EE Journal's Amelia Dalton breaks down each week's EE news in an informative, fun and engaging style.
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Friday Jan 20, 2017
Friday Jan 20, 2017
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. -- Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1873)
Some of us dream that we can fly. Some of us dream that we’re swimming in an endless ocean. Some of us dream we’re in high school again and can’t remember the combination to our locker or how to get to seventh period math class. In this week's episode of Fish Fry, we're talking about how we can make our silicon dreams into semiconductor reality. Taher Madraswala (CEO and President, Open-Silicon) joins Fish Fry to discuss how Open-Silicon is helping engineers realize their dreams and translate those ideas into silicon. Taher and I also chat about the trends and challenges facing the semiconductor industry today and the new developments that Open-Silicon is working to create custom SoCs for high bandwidth memory applications.
Links for January 20, 2017
More information about Open-Silicon
Robot delivery company Starship Technologies raised $17.2 million in a round led by Daimler
Fish Fry Interview with Allan Martinson (COO - Starship Technologies)
Friday Dec 23, 2016
Friday Dec 23, 2016
How many engineers does it take to turn chip design on its head? Just one. In this week's episode of Fish Fry, we take a closer look at how efabless plans to change the face of the semiconductor industry - one integrated circuit at a time. efabless CEO Mike Wishart joins us to discuss the details of their new online community, how they adapted the app store model for the semiconductor world, and how you can participate in their IP development challenge. Also this week, we look at MIT's new Design Your Dream Drone program and check out how you can get started with this super cool new program.
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Links for December 23, 2016
More information about efabless
Design your dream drone with MIT's program
Design Your Own Drones (Video - CSAIL)
Design Your Own Drone code (Github)
Friday Dec 09, 2016
Friday Dec 09, 2016
In this week’s Fish Fry, we take a closer look at three waves of technological advancement in the MEMS and sensors ecosystem with Marcellino Gemelli of Bosch Sensortec. Marcellino and I discuss what vision, value, and velocity have to do with the next decade of sensor technology, and why more data does not necessarily mean more information. Keeping with our IoT theme this week, Kevin Bromber (CEO - myDevices) also joins Fish Fry to introduce us to the world’s first LoRa™ IoT project builder.
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Links for December 9, 2016
More information about Bosch Sensortec
Friday Nov 04, 2016
Friday Nov 04, 2016
In this week's episode of Fish Fry, we’re getting out the LUTS and elevating our embedded IP with a two-part interview episode all about eFPGAs. Geoff Tate (CEO - Flex Logix) and I discuss the difference between embedded FPGAs and traditional FPGAs, the value of an embedded FPGA platform in your next design, and what the eFPGA landscape looks like going forward. In the second part of this week's Fish Fry, I chat with Robert Blake (CEO - Achronix) about their foray into the world of embedded FPGAs.
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Links for November 4, 2016
More information about Flex Logix
More information about Achronix
New Episode of Chalk Talk: How to Build Custom Motor Controllers for Processors, FPGAs and SoCs
Thursday Sep 22, 2016
Thursday Sep 22, 2016
The journey is not an easy one. Most engineers can't even see the finish line, let alone complete the race. The future of our industry hangs in balance and this is a competition that must be won - one way or another. In this week's fish fry, we investigate the perilous path to new material discovery with Chris Kramer of Intermolecular. Chris and I discuss the materials discovery process, the subtle interaction between process tools and new materials, and the challenges and opportunities new materials can bring. Also this week, we take a closer look at a new type of 3D printed material developed at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam, Germany that can make simple machines out of 3D printed plastic.
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Links for September 23, 2016
More information about Intermolecular
More information about Metamaterials (Video)
Metamaterial Mechanisms (Whitepaper)
Friday Aug 26, 2016
Friday Aug 26, 2016
What do SPICE and a new material inspired by the skin of squid and jellyfish have in common? This week's episode of Fish Fry of course! First up,Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO of ProPlus Solutionsjoins us to discuss trends in the SPICE world, the challenges of displacing circuit-level FastSPICE simulators, and why he thinks table tennis is the best sport in the world. In the second half of our episode, we investigate a new type of material inspired by the reactionary skin of squid and jellyfish developed by a team of researchers at the University of Connecticut. This newly developed material may change how we interact with our cellphones, how we trade in our electronics, and how we send (secret) messages as well.
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Links for August 26, 2016
More information about ProPlus Solutions
Featured Article by Bryon Moyer: Spicing Up Spice - ProPlus Claims to Do Full SPICE Faster than Fast
This jellyfish-inspired material can conceal secret messages
Squid, jellyfish and wrinkled skin inspire materials for anti-glare screens and encryption
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Introducing Kinetis Motor Suite
Friday Aug 05, 2016
Friday Aug 05, 2016
The air is a perfect 72 degrees. The water is calm for now, but breakers dot the horizon. The time for the next mondo wave isn't here now, but it will be soon. In this week's fish fry, we're surfing our way to the next big computational wave with a little help from David Dutton (CEO - Silvaco) and Lisa Minwell from eSilicon. David and I discuss why we will see a lot more design requirements coming out of middle nodes, why on-board power will be more important than ever before, and a little bit about why our design tools will be the key to our future success in IoT. In the second half of our episode, Lisa Minwell and I chat about the components of a successful IP company and where 2.5D (and 2.1D) designs will find their foothold in the future.
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Links for August 5, 2016
Thursday Jul 14, 2016
Thursday Jul 14, 2016
No one builds a chip without simulation, right? In this week’s Fish Fry, we take a closer look at the value of virtual prototypes to simulate embedded software. Simon Davidmann (CEO - Imperas) and I chat about about why he thinks no one should design embedded software without simulation, and the benefits of using virtual platforms to develop a verification and test environment. Also this week, we investigate a whole new way to design chips, and it's called Swarm. We examine the details of this new 64-bit architecture developed by MIT, how it could revolutionize the way multicore chips prioritize tasks, and why Swarm could make writing software a whole lot easier.
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Links for July 15, 2016
More information about Imperas
ARM Cortex-A72 Models and Virtual Platforms Released by Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms
Unlocking Ordered Parallelism with the Swarm Architecture (Whitepaper)
Friday Jul 08, 2016
Friday Jul 08, 2016
What if you could have your FPGA cake and eat it too? What if you could modify your RTL post-production and have several variations of an algorithm on the same chip? Let me introduce you to eFPGAs. Yoan Dupret from Menta joins Fish Fry this week to discuss the details of Menta’s eFPGAs, the benefits of embedding field programmable gate array fabric as an IP core, and what process geometries are supported by Menta's eFPGAs. Also this week, Fish Fry welcomes Ramy Iskander from Intento. Ramy and I chat about the challenges of tools in the analog world and how Intento is working on fixing the “Moore’s Law Bottleneck”.
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Links for July 8, 2016
Friday Jul 01, 2016
Friday Jul 01, 2016
He’s been up all night. The row of green and white soda cans marks the passage of time in a steady line across his desk. Everyone else has gone home for the day, but he’s still here, clicking "send to voicemail" on his Mom's call. Nothing, including days without sleep, is going to distract him from his looming deadline. We’ve all been there at least once or twice in our career - burning the engineering candle at both ends, struggling to do more with less. In this week’s Fish Fry, we take a closer look at the “Productivity Gap” that plagues all of us at one time or another. Andy Potemski (Synopsys) and I discuss the void between the enormous capacity of today's chips and our ability to get the design job done. We discuss how the Lynx Design System can make our system design lives a whole lot easier and why the "Productivity Gap" is more prevalent now than ever before.
Links for July 1, 2016
More information about Lynx Design System
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Maxim Integrated’s High Efficiency Power Solutions for 24V+ Systems