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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 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 16, 2016
Friday Dec 16, 2016
What you’ve got here is one part engineering co-creation, one part wicked cool 3D printing, and one part automotive revolution. In this week’s Fish Fry, we welcome Dan Fox - CTO of Local Motors. Dan and I discuss the the variety of 3D printed cars micro-manufactured at Local Motors, what their co-creation program is all about, and how you can get involved in their Zelator Drone Build project. In the second half of our episode, we dive into the world of safety and security critical software development. Jim McElroy (LDRA) joins us and we chat about what their “Road to Certification” is all about, what kind of critical safety and security training classes LDRA offers, and why LDRA offers a 30 day trial of their tool suite for free.
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Links for December 15, 2016
More information about Local Motors
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Introducing RocketSim: The Fastest Digital Simulator
Friday Dec 02, 2016
Friday Dec 02, 2016
In today's high-realiability embedded systems, failure is not an option. Not only is failure not an option, a bug in the software could result in catastrophic consquences. In this week's episode of Fish Fry, we're tackle these very issues with Quentin Ochem from AdaCore. Quentin and I discuss the myriad of challenges surrounding high-integrity, high-reliability software development, the benefits of AdaCore’s GNAT Pro software development suite, and how AdaCore's GNAT Pro was used in the ExoMars program. Also this week, I unveil the winners of this year's "Make It With Ada" Contest and explain why having a solid strategy for signal integrity is crucial to your next system design.
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Links for December 2, 2016
More information about AdaCore
Winners Announced for First Annual "Make with Ada" Programming Competition
New Episode of Chalk Talk: SI? Why Do I Care?
Friday Oct 28, 2016
Friday Oct 28, 2016
In this week's episode of Fish Fry, we tackle the issues surrounding the recent DDoS attacks with Barr Group CEO Andrew Girson. We investigate the systemic security issues facing IoT designs today, the security challenges posed by legacy IoT devices, and the steps we need to take to create a more efficient development process for secure embedded systems. Also this week, we chat with Keith Reed (COO - DevicePilot) about the details of DevicePilot's cloud-based IoT management software.
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Links for October 28, 2016
More information about The Barr Group
Friday Oct 21, 2016
Friday Oct 21, 2016
What do Wind River, IBM’s Watson, and Industrial IoT have in common? This week’s Fish Fry of course! My guest Dinyar Dastoor (Wind River) and I investigate the ingenious intersection between IBM’s Watson and Wind River’s VxWorks in the world of Industrial IoT. We also discuss what edge-to-cloud recipes are all about and why security, safety, and virtualization are vital to the IIoT landscape.
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Links for October 21, 2016
Wind River Announces VxWorks Integration with IBM Watson IoT By Paul Chen
More information about Wind River
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Expanding the Backplane Ecosystem
Friday Sep 30, 2016
Friday Sep 30, 2016
So you’ve built yourself some lovely software. You've shined and polished the corners, field tested it, and even gotten the approval of the VCs on high. But what if, the whole time, there was a tiny hole in your code? And because of that tiny hole, the bad guys were able to waltz right in and are now using your software all willy-nilly-like without paying. Well folks, this is happening a lot more than we know. Or, maybe we do know about it but we just don’t want to talk about it. This week we’re pulling back the curtain on software piracy, IP thievery, and unlicensed software usage with Ted Miracco from SmartFlow Compliance Solutions. Ted and I discuss where the biggest piracy threats are coming from these days and how companies big and small can protect themselves from those sneaky, scurvy-ridden cyber pirates.
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Links for September 30, 2016
More information about SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Targeting SDR Design to Hardware
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 19, 2016
Friday Aug 19, 2016
Registers: It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it. In this week’s Fish Fry, we take a closer look at register behavior modification and sequence automation with Anupam Bakshi of Agnisys. Anupam and I also discuss design intent and the future of verification intent. Whether we like it or not, we all need a little help sometimes, right? In the second part of our EDA special, we welcome Bob Smith from the Electronic System Design Alliance. Bob and I discuss how the ESDA is helping facilitate IP fingerprinting and 3D system scaling, as well as bridging the gap between hardware and software in embedded system design.
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Links for August 19, 2016
More information about Agnisys
More information about the Electronic System Design Alliance
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Addressing the Challenges of Serial Link Design and Analysis
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
Friday Jul 22, 2016
Friday Jul 22, 2016
Filed under “Don’t Try This at Home” or “Not to be Taken Lightly”, most EDA engineering teams don’t even consider building their own language front end. Most of you will know the name Verific and some probably have used their language parsers a time or two (or twenty), but many of you may not know that Verific also has a robust and comprehensive startup program. In this week’s Fish Fry, Rick Carlson and I chat about how your startup can stand out from the crowd with a little help from Verific. Rick also shares with us some Verific-assisted startup success stories and explains why the giraffe is Verific’s signature giveaway.
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Links for July 22, 2016
More information about Verific Design Automation