Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

Quantum Practicality and You: How Intel is Solving the Quantum Computing Interconnect Bottleneck

“A classical computation is like a solo voice—one line of pure tones succeeding each other. A quantum computation is like a symphony—many lines of tones interfering with one another.” - Seth Lloyd

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Stefano Pellerano (Intel Labs) joins me to discuss the interconnect challenges inherent in quantum computing, why frequency multiplexing is crucial to quantum scalability, and how Intel is bringing quantum computing out of the lab and into the real world. 

Let's Get Speedy! Digital Signal Processing for Always-On Systems, Sensor Fusion and Computer Vision

What would a Friday be without a deep dive into digital signal processing for computer vision and AI? In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Pulin Desai (Cadence Design Systems) joins me to discuss the need for increased speed in computer vision algorithms today, the unique processing requirements for sensor fusion, 3D capture, always-on systems, and the details of Cadence’s new Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs. Also this week, I take a closer look at a new research study at the University of Gothenburg that contends that machine learning may be the key to finding effective testing methods during epidemic outbreaks.

 

Connecting the Disconnected: Avoiding Design Pitfalls with Altium’s Nexar Network

This week’s podcast is all about building a better foundation for electronic design lives. Ted Pawela (Altium) joins me to discuss Altium’s new Nexar platform that will connect PCB designers with software,  manufacturers, and suppliers. We chat about the motivations behind the creation of this new cloud platform and how it aims to make the design, creation and manufacture of printed circuit boards a whole lot easier. Also this week, I investigate a new "self-aware" metamaterial created by a team of researchers at the iSMaRT Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. I also take a closer look at the details of this new metamaterial system which includes the ability to behave as its own sensor, record and relay information and even generate its own power.

 

The Problem is Exponential: The Value of Pre-silicon verification and Pre-silicon Hardware Debug

In this week’s Fish Fry Podcast, Paul Cunningham (Cadence Design Systems) joins me to discuss why pre-silicon verification and pre-silicon hardware debug are crucial to today’s advanced SoC designs. We dig into the details of Cadence’s Palladium Z2 Enterprise Emulation and Protium X2 Enterprise Prototyping systems and take a closer look at how these systems can optimize workload distribution between verification, validation and pre-silicon software bring-up. 

The World According to Analog: Why Our Digital Futures Depend on Analog

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we investigate the analog data conundrum with Tom Doyle and Marcie Weinstein from Aspinity. We take a closer look at the power and data challenges of processing at the edge, what Aspinity’s new analog machine learning IC is all about, and the details of their new evaluation kits that utilize their analogML core. Also this week, I dig into the details of a new organic, metal free, non-toxic battery developed by Texas A&M University. (Spoiler Alert: It can be recycled by breaking it down in acid!)

Work Smarter Not Harder: Optimized Software Pipelines and A New Brain-Like Device Learns by Association

We are talking about working smarter not harder in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! To start things off, I investigate a new brain-like computing device developed by a team of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Hong Kong. I take a closer look at how this new device is able to simultaneously process and store information and the details of the new synaptic transistor at the heart of this new device. Also this week, Nicu Penisoara (NXP) joins us to discuss the power of optimized software pipelines. We chat about the different steps involved in a software optimization pipeline process and what applications this kind of optimization is best suited for. 

 

Research meets Realization: InnovationLab Brings Organic Printed Electronics into the Mainstream

I’ve got three words for you: Printed Organic Electronics! My distinguished guest is Dr. Florian Ullrich from InnovationLab. Florian and I are talking all about the unique printing technology behind InnovationLab’s printed electronics, the details of InnovationLab’s collaboration with Evonik to produce the first fully printed rechargeable batteries for flexible printed sensors, and how InnovationLab’s shareholder structure encourages innovation big and small. 

 

Looking Beyond to Today: Finding New Material Solutions with Intermolecular

What do new material synthesizing, device innovation, and lab-grown organs have in common? This week’s Fish Fry podcast of course! My guest is Casper van Oosten, (Business Field Head and Managing Director at Intermolecular, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). Casper and I are talking all about synthesizing new materials for device innovation, how Intermolecular is tackling challenges in electronics, life sciences, and health care with their new Innovation Hub, and how control at the atomic limit inspired Casper to get into the world of semiconductors. Also this week, we take a closer look at a new bioink developed at Lund University in Sweden that is making huge strides in the development of the 3D bioprinted human organs. 

The Future Will Be Open Source: How QuickLogic Is Changing the FPGA Landscape

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Brian Faith (CEO - QuickLogic) joins me to discuss Qomu: Open Source SoC Dev Kit That Fits in Your USB Port. Brian and I delve into the details of this new kit, examine its role within the QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing (QORC) initiative, and how this kit is turning FPGA development on its head in more ways than one. Also this week, we take a closer look at a new desktop 3D hologram printer developed by LitiHolo and how you can start creating your own 3D printed holograms. 

The Next Great Leap Forward: How Paragraf is Bringing Graphene into Electronic Design Primetime

Graphene takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! Simon Thomas (Paragraf - CEO) joins us to discuss why he believes that graphene can revolutionize the electronics industry, the role sticky tape played in its creation, and how Paragraf is bringing graphene from the lab into the real world.