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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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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014
14 min
What has your distributor done for you lately? Maybe more than you know. In this week’s Fish Fry, we look beyond the rows and rows of pieces and parts, beyond the microcontrollers and ADCs - to the softer side of distribution - to the place where the rubber meets the road but you’re not quite ready to race at Indy yet. We’re talking development boards and FAEs with Jim Beneke and Ron Moore from Avnet. Together we look into the specifics of the Zedboard and investigate the changing role of field application engineers in our engineering process. Also this week, we find out how NASA intends to address the issue of limited bandwidth from space - one laser at a time.
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Links for June 13, 2014
NASA Beams "Hello, World!" Video from Space via Laser (press release)
More information about the Zedboard
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Bridging MIPI Technologies with ULD FPGAs
Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014
15 min
Do you know the way to San Francisco? Do you know the way to rows and rows of obscure interesting and innovative point tools? In this week’s Fish Fry, we examine two sides of the multi-faceted ecosystem that is the Design Automation Conference - EDA and IC. On the EDA side, we chat with Chris Porter and Salem Kapetanovic from IBM about how EDA can leverage the Cloud in a whole new way. On the integrated circuit side of DAC life, we chat with eSilicon CEO Jack Harding about how eSilicon is bringing eCommerce to IC design and why IP MarketPlace should be your next stop on the way to GDS11. Also this week, we unveil Amelia’s top five things you may have missed at DAC. (Spoiler alert: DAC Attendees apparently don’t know how to play Jenga™.)
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Links for June 6, 2014
More information about DAC 2014
Fish Fry coverage of DAC 2013 - Let's Get this DAC Party Started
EE Journal On the Scene: Synopsys DesignWare IP Prototyping Kit Demo at DAC
EE Journal On The Scene: Open Text at DAC
EE Journal On The Scene: Altium at DAC
More information about IBM Platform Computing
More information about eSilicon
eSilicon adds IP to its suite of online SoC automation tools
eSilicon adds GDSII handoff to suite of online SoC automation tools
May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014
14 min
Do you remember your first EE project? Do you remember the delight in your soul when you first saw that LED light up or that plume of blue smoke rise across the room? In this week's Fish Fry, we harken back to the days when we were all budding engineers trying to make our circuits work for the first time. My guest is John Weiss, Director of Bayview BOOM. John is here to to introduce us to Bayview BOOM - a revolutionary program that brings engineering education to the young people of San Francicso's Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood. Join John and I as we chat about how Bayview BOOM nurtures cognitive growth, physical activity and a love for electronic design in its students - one boom box at a time.
Links for May 30, 2014
May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014
10 min
Smart, Ultra-low power wireless modules are the name of the game of this week’s Fish Fry. We sit down with Nick Kanopoulos, CEO of Econais to chat about the pain of end product WiFi integration, why the need for low power consumption in IoT devices is becoming a bigger issue these days, and how software can ease our pain in both of these realms. Also this week, we unveil some of the cool details of this year’s Sensors Expo and Conference and we'll also let you in on a secret code to get in for free (or cheap, at least).
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Links for May 23, 2014
May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014
11 min
In this week’s editorial matrix, Fish Fry has EDA on all sides. In one corner, we have Chuck Alpert (DAC 2014 Technical Program Chair) here to give us the skinny on this year’s Design Automation Conference and Expo. Chuck gives the low down on what kind of cool conference tracks and tutorials are being offered, how you can attend the conference on the cheap, and where the hip and happenin’ parties will be found. Then, keeping with our EDA theme, we also sit down with Tom De Schutter (Synopsys) and discuss the benefits and best practices of virtual prototyping for your next design.
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Links for May 16, 2014
More information about The 2014 Design Automation Conference
Download a copy of the virtual prototyping book “Better Software. Faster!”
May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014
10 min
There’s a break in the wall. It’s tiny but it’s there. The water will seep through at some point, we know this. Will we be ready for the rising tide or will we flounder to find a patch to save the day? Security in our embedded systems is no longer an issue we can ignore and in this week’s Fish Fry, we get down to the heart of the matter with Alan Grau (President - Icon Labs). Alan and I chat about the rise of intrusion detection in RTOS-based systems and we address the challenges of providing security for Smart Home devices. Also this week, I rant about certain people I know not “believing” in IoT and the pains of IP integration.
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Links for May 9, 2014
More information about Icon Labs
Bruce Kleinmann’s Feature Article - Heartbleed: Serious Security Vulnerability - Serious Wake-up Call
New Episode of Chalk Talk - Vivado IP Integrator
May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014
13 min
This week's Fish Fry will not melt in your mouth or in your hand. It will not be crispety, crunchety, or peanut buttery, but it will be coated in EE Journal's signature mixture of electronic design news, in-depth interviews, and nerdy humor. Sweetening the pot, John Carbone (Express Logic) and I dig into some of the evolving trends in embedded software development and baseball franchise loyalty. And finally, fire up your plasmon resonators for a sci-fi trip into the terahertz with the latest nanoelectronic circuit research from the National University of Singapore.
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Links for May 2, 2014
More information about Express Logic
New episode of Chalk Talk - Scripted Flows in Vivado Design Suite
Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014
11 min
A coup d'état is coming. A mobile revolution. With "Modular!" banners held high and money where their mouths is, Google is marching through the streets determined to overthrow the status quo in smartphone technology. This week’s Fish Fry is all about Google’s Project Ara - why its cool, why you should care about this modular smartphone technology and how you can get involved. My guests this week are Ara Knaian (NK Labs) and David Rutledge (CTO - Lattice Semiconductor) and we are going to talk about the what's inside the Google Ara phone, where (and how) FPGAs play in the mix and why Ara lent his name to this super cool new project. Also this week, we take a tour of Xilinx’s Vivado IDE and break the biggest news to hit the EE airwaves.
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Links for April 25, 2014
News - Cadence to Expand Verification Solution with Acquisition of Jasper Design Automation
News - Altera Changes the Game for Floating Point DSP in FPGAs
More information about Project Ara
EE Journal's NEW Video Blog - On The Scene: Project Ara
Video - (Tiny) Reconfigurable Robots at MIT
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Vivado Design Suite - Integrated Design Environment
Apr 18, 2014
Apr 18, 2014
9 min
There is a common assumption that innovation cannot be inspired in the world of 8 bit microcontrollers. If that is the case, then why haven’t they disappeared like the telegraph or the 8-track tape? Perhaps it's because we still need them and sometimes they are just what the doctor (or engineer as the case may be) ordered. In this week’s Fish Fry, I check out some cool new 8-bit MCUs from Microchip Technology with Greg Robinson (VP - Microchip Technology) and we dive down into the guts of these new 8-bit masterpieces - from the intelligent analog features to the digital pin placement capabilities. Also this week, we investigate how Israeli start-up StoreDot plans to revolutionize battery technology. (Hint: It includes chemically synthesized bio-organic peptide molecules!)
Links for April 18, 2014
More information about StoreDot's next generation smart phone battery
Feature Article by Jim Turley:
Attack of the Tiny Terrors - Microchip’s Small, Cheap PIC16 MCUs Prove There’s Life in 8-bitters
Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014
10 min
On the heels of Michael Barr’s keynote at EELive this year - "KILLER APPS: Embedded Software's Greatest Hit Jobs," this week's Fish Fry takes a closer look at embedded software for safety-critical systems. At the helm is Jim McElroy - VP at LDRA. Jim and I discuss the challenges of designing safety-critical embedded systems, and Jim explains where LDRA fits into the embedded software ecosystem. He also gives us the low down on why Boston Baked Beans get a bad wrap. (Spoiler: According to Jim, they totally deserve it.) I also give everyone a sneak peek at EE Journal’s brand new “On the Scene" video blog, and I lay out my revolutionary plans to restore the Embedded Systems Conference to its former glory. (Second Spoiler: They absolutely will not use my idea.)