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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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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014
15 min
One part server-on-chip, two parts green energy - with a heavy sprinkling of superhero powers - this week's Fish Fry takes on advances in connectivity. We investigate the University of Texas at Arlington's unique collaboration with WinMEMS to create a new way to harness the wind to power your cellphone. Next, we chat with Mike Major (AppliedMicro) about how AppliedMicro is connecting the data center dots with some faster lines and finally, I’ll tell you how you might be able to get yourself some real superhero powers - using ultrasound.
We're giving away a GertBoard (courtesy of Newark element14) to one lucky listener this week! Head on over to element14.com/fishfry to enter to win.
Click here to enter to win a GertBoard courtesy of newark element14
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Links for January 17, 2014
More Information about the GertBoard
More information about UT Arlington's mini windmill project
More information about AppliedMicro
More information about how ultrasound directed to the human brain can boost sensory performance
Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014
12 min
With the Consumer Electronics Show drawing to a close, it's time to reflect and decompress. In this week's Fish Fry, we meditate on the electronic engineering wonders and winners of 2013 element14's Annual Community Awards with Dianne Kibbey of element14. If you're still tense after a solid week in the consumer electronic playground, you are certain to enjoy the soothing waters of PADS board design software. This week, we unveil a whole new way to binge on your favorite Chalk Talk webcasts - including a whole set of webcasts that might just make you rethink your next board design stategy. Decompression starts now. Join me, won't you?
We're giving away a GertBoard (courtesy of Newark element14) to one lucky listener this week! Head on over to element14.com/fishfry to enter to win.
Click here to enter to win a GertBoard courtesy of newark element14
Links for January 10, 2014
More Information about the GertBoard
More Information about Element14's 2013 Community Awards Winners
EE Journal's Chalk Talk Youtube Channel
Mentor Graphics PADS Chalk Talk Channel
Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013
16 min
In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re throwing some FR4 on the barbie and frying up a side of silicon -- eSilicon to be exact. My guest is EE Master Chef Mike Gianfagna from eSilicon. Mike always joins Fish Fry around this time of year, and this year we are discussing the state of the semiconductor union: what’s keeping us hungry for Moore, and what trends are boiling on high. Also this week, we check out a new crowdsourcing event called “The Iron Man Factory” that could make your dreams (and mine) of a 3D printed Iron Man suit a reality - if they can get Marvel to agree to it.
Links for December 20, 2013
Dec 13, 2013
Dec 13, 2013
12 min
Alright, Fish Fryers - let's do some visualization. You're wearing some kind of device, it's monitoring your vital signs, it's measuring your activity, and it knows if you're naughty or nice. What names come to mind? Fitbit?? Jawbone? BodyMedia? In this weeks Fish Fry, my guest is none other than Ivo Stivoric. He's the former co-founder, CTO, and VP of New Products at BodyMedia, the current Vice President of Research and Development at Jawbone, and a Croatian dancer extraordinaire. Join us, won't you?
Dec 6, 2013
Dec 6, 2013
16 min
The year is drawing to a close, and the snow is falling, but the friday fun is just heatin' up. Our first guest is none other than Ben Heck from element14's wildly popular engineering television series "The Ben Heck Show". Ben gives us an exclusive preview of the next season of "The Ben Heck Show" and lets us in on how he got into this crazy business. Also this week, author Ray Salemi is here to light our way to a special place called UVM. He's written a new book called "The UVM Primer: A Step-by-Step Introduction to the Universal Verification Methodology" and he's here to break UVM down into its geeky bits and pieces. Finally, we close up this week's Fish Fry with a discussion about some innovative open source plans that could bring 3D metal printing right to your work bench. Saddle up, my friends, the fun is about to begin!
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Click here to enter to win a BeagleBone Black courtesy of Newark element14
Links for December 6, 2013
Pre-order a copy of “Terminated” by Ray Daniel
Scientists Build a Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Metal Printer
Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013
11 min
No coupons needed. No line-standing necessary. Fish Fry is taking on Black Friday*, and it'll never be the same again. On honor of today's yearly shopping obsession in America, we check out the bright ideas (big and small) that drive our gift giving season. In this week's episode of Fish Fry, Dianne Kibbey (element14) brings a shopping cart chock full of bright ideas with an update on element14’s Smarter Life Challenge and Rich Hoefle (Microchip Technology) brings the goods on the world’s Fastest Single-Core 32-bit MCUs. (Just try to imagine our holiday gift giving season without MCUs. Yeah, I thought so.) Also this week, we check out your next new stocking stuffer - a silver ink enhanced rollerball pen that aims to make circuit design as easy as quick doodle.
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Links for November 29, 2013
Circuit Scribe Kickstarter Campaign
More information about Electroninks
Whitepaper - Pen-on-Paper Flexible Electronics
More Information about Element14's Smarter Life Challenge
More Information about Microchip's PIC32MZ family
More Information about Microchip's MPLAB® Harmony Integrated Software Framework
Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013
11 min
n honor of Thanksgiving next week, we're serving up a bountiful virtual turducken* of EE goodness. For the first course, we tackle that age old question: How do you train a fleet of robots to obey your every command? (The key to this quandary may be as close as the eyes on our faces.) In our next course, we serve up a feast of embedded software and embedded IP with Sheneka Coleman from Avnet. Lastly, we finsh up our fine Friday Fun meal with a tasty morsel from Eric Sigler of DigitalOptics. (DigitaOptics's new mems|cam may change how we interact with our smartphones forever.) This Thankgiving fryer won't be hot for too much longer, so dig in while the gettin's good.
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Links for November 22, 2013
Tragic Robot Suicide Stuns Small Town
Farmers, welcome your new robot workers
In Case You Missed the Embedded Software Store at ARM TechCon
More Information about Avnet's Embedded Software Store
More Information about DigitalOptics
New Episode of Chalk Talk - Overcoming the Challenges of Highly Constrained Designs
Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013
12 min
Late fall doldrums got you down? Looking for a new project to break up the longer, darker nights? Dreaming of a motor control design for the holidays? Never fear! Fish Fry is here to help! First up, we spin our motors on over to LaunchPad land with Chris Clearman from Texas Instruments, to check out a brand new motor control evaluation kit. And, what if your new motor control design didn't just consume energy (yawn - how old school), but it also produced it? Well, it could if MicroGEN Systems has anything to say about it. Straight off a win at this year's MEMS Executive Congress Technology Showcase, Robert Andosca (President/CEO - MicroGEN Systems) is here to talk to us about Thing Power - a whole new way to harvest energy.
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013
10 min
MEMS. The final frontier. What better place to check out some of the coolest innovation in our electronic engineering community than the 2013 MEMS Executive Congress. QuickLogic has jumped into the MEMS space in big way, and this week Brian Faith (VP - QuickLogic)breaks it all down for us. We're also waxing MEMS poetic with Alissa Fitzgerald (Founder - AMFitzgerald) and Peter Himes (VP - Silex Microsystems) about the future of innovation in the MEMS sphere. Join us as we get our MEMS on!
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Links for November 8, 2013
More Information about the 2013 MEMS Executive Congress
More Information about QuickLogic
QuickLogic Introduces First Sensor Hub to Enable Always-on Context Awareness Within OEM Power Budget
Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013
11 min
Dateline: November 1st. 2013 - 11 hundred hours. Sunnyvale. California. ARMed and Dangerous. We’re in the high tech trenches - MCU’s activated, knee deep in IP, connecting to the IoT, Reading from SSD, wearing our GUIs like they are going out of style, and loving every big.LITTLE minute of it. Where o’ where could we be? ARM TechCon. Of course. Come on, like you didn’t know. In a special ARM TechCon double header, I check out hardware and software debug with Glenn Woppman (CEO - ASSET InterTech) and open source software for ARM SoCs with Charlene Marini from ARM.
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