Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

Verification for You and Me! DVCon U.S. 2022 and The New Cadence Midas Safety Platform

Design verification is the name of the game of this week’s Fish Fry podcast. First up, John Dickol (DVCon 2022 U.S. Program Chair) and I chat about this year’s DVCon Virtual Conference, the new two stage paper submission process for this year’s conference and what you can expect by attending. Also this week, Robert Schweiger (Cadence) joins me to discuss why standardization is crucial to functional safety design today and the details of Cadence’s new Comprehensive Safety Solution for Faster Certification of Automotive and Industrial Designs.

The Next Evolution of Robotics - InOrbit’s Plans for Robots and AI in the Workforce

Robots big and small take center stage in this week's Fish Fry podcast! Florian Pestoni (CEO - InOrbit) joins me to discuss the future of AI and robotics in the workforce. Florian and I also chat about the details of InOrbit’s cloud-based robot management platform and why Florian believes that the next step in digital transformation will be software-defined X. Also this week, I investigate new micro-bots developed by a team of researchers from Japan's Okayama University and Linköping University in Sweden that can self-heal bone and may make the treatment of compound bone fractures much easier in the future. 

Eliminating the Battery Altogether: How Powercast is Opening New Avenues of Innovation with RF Wireless Power and RF Wireless Harvesting

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Charlie Green (Chief Operating & Technical Officer at Powercast) joins us to discuss how Powercast is powering new avenues of innovation with their RF energy harvesting and wireless power. We are digging into the details of some super cool new designs that utilize Powercast technologies including a 3D printable discrete wearables for at-home medical monitoring, diagnosis and athletic training, a robotic autonomous price-changing system, an over-the-air wireless charging grip for Nintendo Joy-Con Controllers, and more!

 

Changing the UI and UX Paradigm One Touch at a Time

In this week’s podcast, super tiny technology is taking center stage! First up, I check out world’s first and smallest sensor that can enable touch gestures through any material. Dan Goehl (Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at UltraSense Systems) joins me to discuss how UltraSense’s new 3D ultrasound sensor is going to usher in a whole new era in user interfaces. Also this week, I investigate the world’s smallest antenna developed by a group of researchers at the Université de Montréal and how this new nanoantenna will help scientists better understand nanotechnologies and identify new drugs.

One Standard to Rule them All: Matter and the Search for IoT Interoperatability

It’s the first week of 2022 and I’ve got Matter on my mind! In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we are talking about the Matter open standard, which promises to transform the future of IoT connectivity. First, Roman Baker (VP of Software development at Infineon) joins me to discuss the development of this open standard and why Matter is so important to the future of IoT. Next, Sonal Chandrasekharan (Vice President of Bluetooth Products -  Infineon IoT Compute and Wireless Business Line) and I chat about Infineon’s recent expansion of their Matter-supporting wireless portfolio and what Infineon’s roadmap for the future looks like when it comes to this new open standard.

 

 

The Most Important Compute Workloads of a Generation: How Cerebras Systems is Accelerating AI’s Potential

It’s a bird, it's a plane, it's the largest AI processor ever made!  In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Andy Hock (Cerebras Systems) joins me to chat about the largest AI processor ever made -  the 7 nm wafer scale engine 2, the details of their brain-scale AI training, and how Cerebras Systems is democratizing access to high performance AI computation. Also this week, I check out a new kickstarter campaign called the SPORTSMATE 5: the world’s first and lightest portable wearable robotic exoskeleton that aims to alter the way we interact with the world by applying exoskeletons to daily life. 

 

Fish Fry Special Edition: Makers Today! Dr. Gough Lui

Welcome to the seventh installment of a special edition series of our long-running Fish Fry podcast called “Makers Today!” -- highlighting the movers and shakers in the Maker space.  In this month’s episode, my guest is Dr. Gough Lui! Dr. Gough and I chat about creating the product review section of his website called “Dr. Gough’s Review Challenge” and what sets his reviews apart from other technology/component reviews. We also discuss his role as a top member of the element14 community, the details of his recent blog post about a crude inverter design and how a gift of a car battery as a child inspired him to experiment with electronic design.

 

A New Anti-Piracy Server Certification Protocol and A New Way to Simplify Quantum Computers

In honor of the SEMICON West 2021 and the Design Automation Conference that took place in San Francisco this week, my guest is Bob Smith from ESD Alliance. Bob and I are chatting about a new anti-piracy server certification protocol for software license management and why this kind of server certification protocol is needed now more than ever before. Also this week, I take a closer look at a new simplified quantum computer developed by a team of researchers at Stanford University. (Spoiler Alert: They use off the shelf parts!) 

 

The Fantastic Road Forward: The Future of 3D IC Design and the Discovery of Self-Replicating Living Robots

This week's podcast is all about the future of 3D IC tools and methodologies and the newest advancement in xenobot research. Vinay Patwardhan (Cadence Design Systems) and I discuss the challenges engineers experience when designing 3D chips, where existing 3D-IC tools and methodologies fall short, and what type of analysis we need for a 3D stack system as opposed to a standard chip design. Also this week, I investigate how a group of researchers from the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a brand new form of biological reproduction and how they used this new discovery to create the world’s first self-replicating living robots.

 

Fish Fry Special Edition: Makers Today! OKdo

We are switching things up for our sixth installment of my new special edition series of our long-running Fish Fry podcast called “Makers Today!”, where we highlight the movers and shakers in the maker space. In this month’s episode, my guests are Katie Clubb and Richard Curtin from OKdo! Katie, Richard and I chat about OKdo’s mission to encourage inspiration with the Okdo Projects Hub, how you can recycle your pre-loved Raspberry Pis with their new Okdo Renew Program and how they are encouraging STEM education throughout the world.