Amelia&#8217;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

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Xin Song, CEO - Bottos

Chris Dries, CEO – UnitedSiC

Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

Jun Pei, CEO – Cepton Technologies

Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST

When You Just Can’t Fix It

Posted by techfocus on February 15, 2019 Comments

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we gaze up at the starlit sky and dream of space exploration. We chat with Noel Dube (Reflex CES) about the differences between Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO) and Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) and investigate the unique challenges each of these orbits present designers today. We also discuss the role of optical transceivers and interconnects will play in the future of satellite installation. In the second part of our episode, we explore the world’s first refuel-able steam engine system for spacecraft propulsion developed by Honeybee Robotics and University of Central Florida planetary research scientist Phil Metzger. We take a closer look at how this new prototype works and how it could revolutionize space exploration as we know it.

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Links for February 15, 2019

NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End

More information about Reflex

Steam-Powered Asteroid Hoppers Developed through UCF Collaboration

More information about Honeybee Robotics

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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

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Xin Song, CEO - Bottos

Chris Dries, CEO – UnitedSiC

Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

Jun Pei, CEO – Cepton Technologies

Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST

Moore’s Law Only Ends Once

Posted by techfocus on September 21, 2018 Comments

I hope you have your seatbelt low and tight across your waist my friends, because we are flying high into cloud-based design in this week’s episode of Fish Fry! With templates, code, tools, fabs and processes in the cloud cargo hold, Naveed Sherwani (CEO - SiFive), Yunsup Lee (CTO/Founder - SiFive), and I are headed straight into the next generation of silicon design. Also this week, we explore a new project at the European Astronaut Centre that aims to create a new kind of building construction material for buildings and roads on the moon.

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Links for September 21, 2018

More information about SiFive

Bricks from Moon Dust (ESA Article)

Spaceship EAC – Studying Lunar Regolith (Video)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: The 32-Bit Difference: How to Future Proof Your Next Design

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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

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Xin Song, CEO - Bottos

Chris Dries, CEO – UnitedSiC

Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

RISC-V and The New Frontier of Microprocessors

Posted by techfocus on March 30, 2018 Comments

What has RISC-V done for you lately? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we chat with Rick O’Connor (executive director of the RISC-V Foundation) about the history of RISC-V, the evolution of the standards being developed within the foundation, and why Rick thinks that RISC-V is the most interesting thing to happen in the microprocessors in the last decade. Also this week, we investigate a new galaxy discovered by a group of scientists at Yale called NGC1052-DF2 and why this new discovery may change how we view matter, Newton’s laws of motion, and the universe itself.

Links for March 30, 2018

More information about the RISC-V Foundation

A Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter (Nature)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: ANSI/VITA 57.4-2016 FMC+ — The New Frontier of FPGA Expansion Cards

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

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

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director - VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO - GDCA

Robbing from Your Future to Service Your Past

Posted by techfocus on March 9, 2018 Comments

The design cycle drum beats on. Your research and development team have been stressed for months. The constant push for "the next big thing" keeps you up at night. We’ve all been there. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we look at how the ever-growing life cycles of our embedded designs affect our product portfolio profitability. Ethan Plotkin (GDCA - CEO) joins us to discuss the details GDCA’s holistic approach to obsolescence, how counterfeit parts play a role in the embedded design ecosystem, and why long term support is the key to keeping our heads above water. Also this week, we check out a new AI robotic assistant called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN) created to help astronauts with their everyday tasks on the International Space Station.

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Links for March 9, 2018

More information about GDCA

"Hello, I am CIMON!"Airbus is developing the CIMON astronaut assistance system for the DLR Space Administration

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Mixed-Signal Digital Complexity Explosion

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

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

Space: The Final COTS Frontier

Posted by techfocus on February 2, 2018 Comments

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

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager -- MediaTek