Amelia&#39;s Weekly Fish Fry

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

More information about HiFi 5 DSP

Friday Feb 22, 2019

Hey! Hey! What Did you Say?

Friday Feb 22, 2019

Speech recognition is becoming more and more critical in IoT designs these days. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Gerard Andrews (Cadence Design Systems) and I are talking about the trends in voice control user interfaces, the advantages of locally-enabled speech recognition, and the differences between neural network processing for audio and imaging applications. Also this week, we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special selection of neural network-created candy heart slogans and pick up lines.

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Links for February 21, 2019

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

New paint colors invented by neural network

Craft beers named by a neural network

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Introducing Cadence Cloud Portfolio

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End

Friday Feb 15, 2019

When You Just Can’t Fix It

Friday Feb 15, 2019

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

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

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

More information about GDCA

Friday Feb 08, 2019

When Tomorrow Never Comes

Friday Feb 08, 2019

You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
“The Gambler” - Kenny Rogers

Maybe the writing is on the wall. Maybe the truth is hidden in between the lines of your BOM. Maybe you really want to find another way but you don’t know where to start. Obsolescence may be bleeding your company dry but there is another way to deal with your end of life designs. In this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry, we attack the issues surrounding obsolescence and ad hoc sustainment with Ethan Plotkin (CEO - GDCA). Ethan and I discuss why obsolescence is like putting air in leaky tire and why changing the minds of our embedded system designers will be the true key to innovation. Also this week, we check out a new plant-inspired, tendril-equipped robot coming out of the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia that can climb and curl around objects.

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Links for February 8, 2019

The first tendril-like soft robot able to climb

A variable-stiffness tendril-like soft robot based on reversible osmotic actuation (Whitepaper)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Logic Innovations for the Industrial Control Space

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

More information about the Embedded Tech Trends Conference

Friday Feb 01, 2019

"The Future is Now" - Embedded Tech Trends 2019

Friday Feb 01, 2019

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker

I just flew in from San Diego and boy is my VPX tired! Coming to you from the Embedded Tech Trends Conference in Southern California, this week’s episode of Fish Fry is all about how open system architectures can drive innovation in the world of embedded design. First up, Mark Littlefield (Kontron) and I chat about the secrets of the success of open system architectures, the pros and cons of OpenVPX, and what SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) is doing to help solve some of the myriad of challenges we are facing in this arena. Also this week, I sit down with Jess Isquith (President/CEO - PICMG) and discuss the the power of open modular computing standards and the meaning behind her session at this year’s Embedded Tech Trends Conference called “The Past is Prologue”.

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Links for February 1, 2018

More information about VITA

More information about Kontron

More information about SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture™)

More information about PICMG

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

More information about Portable Stimulus Testbench Automation Solution

Friday Jan 25, 2019

Verification’s Next Steps

Friday Jan 25, 2019

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we dive head first into the multi-dimensional world of portable stimulus. Tom Fitzpatrick (Mentor) and I discuss the details of the portable stimulus (and how it can improve verification from the ground up), the differences between vertical, horizontal and technique reuse, and why Mentor has pushed Accellera to standardize the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard.

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Links for January 25, 2019

M ore information about Portable Test and Stimulus (Verification Academy)

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

The DNA of an Artificial Intelligence SoC

Friday Jan 18, 2019

Architecting the Interference

Friday Jan 18, 2019

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.” —Ginni Rometty

Artificial intelligence takes center stage in this week’s episode of Fish Fry. Ron Lowman (Synopsys - Author of The DNA of an Artificial Intelligence SoC) joins us to discuss the similarities inherent in AI chip design, the challenges of the multiple subsegments of AI, and what the next couple years holds for our AI chip design progress. Also this week, we take a closer look at DARPA’s new KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program. We investigate how it will work (with a little help from a bunch of humans) and how it may (some day) be able to discern patterns of connected events to help mankind better understand the world around us.

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Links for January 18, 2019

More information about DesignWare IP for Artificial Intelligence

More information about KAIROS - Generating Actionable Understanding of Real-World Phenomena with AI

More information about KAIROS Proposers Day

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

More information about the Cadence Verification Suite

Friday Jan 04, 2019

The Road to 5G

Friday Jan 04, 2019

"5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution." - Borje Ekholm

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we travel down the 5G road with Frank Schirrmeister (Cadence Design Systems). Frank and I are dishing the dirt aboutwhat it will take to implement 5G systems and how architecture analysis and performance verification will be crucial to a smooth road ahead. Also this week, we announce the winners of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to PCB Design" T-shirt giveaway!

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Links for January 4, 2019

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation

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

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

More information about Elma Electronics

Friday Dec 21, 2018

Clear and Present Signals

Friday Dec 21, 2018

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we are diving deep into the world of VPX. Dave Caserza, Michael Munroe, Ovidiu Mesesan (Elma Electronic) join me to chat about the future of VPX, the challenges of signal integrity in VPX backplane designs, and why your simulation is only as good as your assumptions. Also this week, we check out MIT's new super shrinking technology that can produce 3D nanoscale versions of much larger, custom-made objects.

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Links for December 21, 2018

Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

Enter to win a “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PCB Design” T-Shirt!

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews