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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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Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
14 min
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry we tackle the age-old question - What are we going to do with all these cores?! My first guest Maximilian Odendahl (Silexica - CEO) is going to help us solve the multi-core heterogeneous computing software conundrum. Max and I discuss software development techniques for multi-core systems, the biggest challenges facing us in multi-core software development, and the details of Silexica’s new SLX tool suite. Keeping with our embedded system design theme, our next guest Rodger Hosking (Pentek) and I chat about the evolving role of standards and tools in the embedded ecosystem.
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Links for February 10, 2017
More information about Silexica
New Episode of Chalk Talk: How to Select the Right Digital Isolator
Feb 3, 2017
Feb 3, 2017
13 min
Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
-- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz.
This week's episode of Fish Fry starts off with a bang -- the Big Bang! We investigate a new study from a multi-national team of researchers that investigates the cosmic microwave background of the universe. This research team claims that hidden in this cosmic white noise is "substanial proof" that we live in a holographic universe. Next, we dive into the world of USB Type C with Total Phase CEO Gil Ben-Dov. Gil and I discuss the testing and debug challenges of this upstart USB technology and why Type C cabling is much more complicated than previous versions.
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Links for February 3, 2017
Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
More information about Total Phase
Jan 27, 2017
Jan 27, 2017
12 min
Watch out Big Easy, Fish Fry is here to stay! This week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry takes on the annual Embedded Tech Trends Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Keeping with this year's conference theme: The VooDoo Behind Critical and Intelligent Embedded Systems, Nigel Forrester (Concurrent Technologies) joins us to explore what he thinks as the “dark powers of Intel-based processor boards”. He also introduces to us a new AdvancedMC module that has been used in the some super cool applications in the high-speed physics community and reveals his unique connection to William Shakespeare.
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Links for January 27, 2016
More information about Concurrent Technologies
Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017
17 min
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)
Jan 13, 2017
Jan 13, 2017
14 min
He'd been here before, many times. He had procrastinated until he couldn’t put it off any longer. It had to be done. After a few cans of Mountain Dew and a giant sigh, he dove in. The experience wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great. I know you’ve been through it too. Choosing the right power supply for your next design can be a drag, searching through part numbers until your eyes glaze, only to come up with a solution that (most of the time) is still not quite right. In this episode of Fish Fry, we welcome Kapil Shankar from AnDAPT. Kapil and I take an in-depth look at AnDAPT 's on-demand power management solution. Also in this week’s Kickstarter Corner, we check out a new fundraising campaign called JeVois: Open-Source Quad-Core Smart Machine Vision Camera that could bring open-source machine vision to your next Raspberry Pi or Arduino project.
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Links for January 13, 2017
Kickstarter Corner - JeVois: Open-Source Quad-Core Smart Machine Vision Camera
New Episode of Chalk Talk - Avnet LED Solutions: Smart Lighting, Intelligent Lighting and the Puzzle
Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6, 2017
17 min
We’ve all heard of six degrees of separation, right? But what about six degrees of freedom? In this week’s Fish Fry, David Horsley of Chirp Microsystems joins us to discuss the details of Chirp Micro’s innovative ultrasonic sensing solutions. David and I chat about what this six degrees of freedom business is all about, how their ultrasonic software library and gesture classification libraries work together, why MEMS-based ultrasound can go toe-to-toe with today’s optical systems, and why you should consider ultrasonic sensing in your next consumer electronic design.
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Links for January 6, 2017
Dec 23, 2016
Dec 23, 2016
13 min
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)
Dec 16, 2016
Dec 16, 2016
14 min
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
Dec 9, 2016
Dec 9, 2016
14 min
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
Dec 2, 2016
Dec 2, 2016
12 min
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?