Amelia&#39;s Weekly Fish Fry

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 09, 2018

Marrying the Worlds of OT and IT

Friday Feb 09, 2018

We have a gathered here today to celebrate the matrimony of operational technology and information technology. In the years they have been together, their understanding of each other has grown and matured, and now they have decided to live their lives together. But how exactly are they going to do that? With a little help from us, of course. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we welcome Lou Lutostanski from Avnet. Lou and I discuss the how the internet of things reflects a unique marriage of operational technology and information technology and what that means in terms of IoT design support. We also chat about the role smart apps play in the world of IoT and why “out of the box” solutions don’t always fit quite right. Also this week, Jarvis Wenger (MEN Micro) and I explore the biggest and brightest industrial IoT technologies for extreme environments and where he thinks IIoT technologies are headed in the future.

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Links for February 9, 2018

More information about Avnet

More information about Avnet's IoT Solutions

More information about MEN Micro

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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 26, 2018

Blank Slates Don't Work

Friday Jan 26, 2018

This week’s episode of Fish Fry covers the world of embedded design open standards and modules, a new security IC, and the science behind swearing. Jerry Gipper (Executive Director at VITA) joins us to discuss how VITA evolved from a simple VMEbus users group to the unique collaboration between suppliers and users it is today. We'll discuss the future of VME and VPX technology, and why open standards and modules are critical to the health and vitality of the embedded design ecosystem. Additionally, a recent research study at Keele University in Staffordshire, England contends that swearing can change your perception of pain and actually make you feel better. Finally, we take a look at how physically unclonable functions can help secure your next system design.

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Links for January 26, 2018

More information about VITA

More information about the Embedded Tech Trends Conference

Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Security ICs Deliver a Stronger Level of Protection

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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

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 Jan 12, 2018

If I Only Had a Brain-1

Friday Jan 12, 2018

"I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
-- Scarecrow - The Wizard of Oz)

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we set our sights on open source hardware design. Jake Janovetz (President - Opal Kelly) introduces us to a brand new crowdfunding campaign called the Brain-1. Jake and I discuss the the details of Brain-1, why they chose crowdfunding to launch this project, and what their new SYZYGY interconnect standard is all about. We also take a closer look at world’s smallest wearable sensor called UVSense rolled out this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. We check out how this sensor technology (which is a collaboration between cosmetics company L’Oreal and Northwestern University) could how we measure harmful UV ray exposure.

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Links for January 12, 2018

More information about Opal Kelly

More information about the Brain-1 Crowdfunding Campaign

Feature Article by Kevin Morris: A New Standard for FPGA Peripherals --
Opal Kelly Announces SYZYGY

Researchers develop world's smallest wearable device

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

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 Jan 05, 2018

Silicon Stagnation

Friday Jan 05, 2018

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, MEMS and sensors visionary Alissa Fitzgerald and I chat about emerging technologies in the MEMS and Sensors ecosystem. We investigate how research and development is changing the MEMS landscape and why Alissa thinks that silicon sensor technology could be at risk of stagnation due to waning research efforts. Also this week, we check out the details of a new “sweaty” humanoid robot named Kengoro and the future of silicon carbide transistor technology.

Links for January 5, 2018

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Links for January 5, 2018

More information about AM Fitzgerald

More information about the 2017 MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress

Whitepaper: Design principles of a human mimetic humanoid: Humanoid platform to study human intelligence and internal body system

Video: Kengoro in Action (Youtube)

More information about Atlas - Humanoid Robot from Boston Dynamics

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Unleash SiC MOSFETS: Extract the Best Performance

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

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 22, 2017

Heavy Lifting

Friday Dec 22, 2017

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we tackle lifecycle traceability and standard compliance in the world of safety and security electronic design. Jim McElroy (LDRA) and I chat about about why test management can be especially helpful when designing for the functional safety and secure market, and how newly introduced automation in the LDRA tool suite can your software compliance ducks in a row faster than ever before. Also this week, we take a closer look at a new research project being developed at the University of Michigan (funded under DARPA’s System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware Program) that could stop half of today’s cybersecurity attacks with a groundbreaking new hardware architecture.

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Links for December 22, 2017

More information about LDRA

Press Release: LDRA Streamlines Automation for Software Safety and Security Compliance Management

Press Release: LDRA Clears Medical Device Manufacturers’ Path to IEC 62304 Compliance for Safe and Secure Medical Device Applications

Unhackable computer under development with $3.6M DARPA grant

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Why are so Many Engineers Choosing Power Modules?

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

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

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 AdaCore

Friday Dec 08, 2017

Let the Formal Be With You

Friday Dec 08, 2017

In a long-forgotten corner of a lab far, far away a bug sits idle. He’s waiting for just the right time to strike. Static analysis and testing will not budge him from his hiding place. Is there anything we can do to root out this software bug from his clever code camouflage? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry we investigate the power of formal verification with Quentin Ochem from AdaCore. With virtual light sabers in hand and the "Formal Force" in our hearts, we investigate why the ever-increasing need for software safety and reliability has made formal verification more important than ever before.

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Links for December 8, 2017

AdaCore Booklet: Implementation Guidance for the Adoption of SPARK

New Episode of Chalk Talk: IDesignSpec: Executable Register Specification

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.