Amelia&#8217;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

Lockheed Martin Is Reprogramming Cells To Bioproduce New Materials - $10 Million Army Research Contract Advances Precision Biodesign

Keep ‘Em Separated

Posted by techfocus on March 1, 2019

Multicore processing takes center stage in this week’s episode of Fish Fry. Richard Jaenicke (Green Hills Software) and I discuss the challenges of multicore processing in avionics applications and how we can address multiple layers of safety certification on a software level. We also chat about the power of testing in avionics and and why you can’t mitigate multicore interference at the application level. Also this week, we investigate the details of Lockheed Martin’s new research project called “Self-Assembly of Nanostructures for Tunable Materials.”

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Links for March 1, 2019

More information about Green Hills Software

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Powering the Future: Always Aware SIMO PMICs

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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 HiFi 5 DSP

Hey! Hey! What Did you Say?

Posted by techfocus on February 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

When You Just Can’t Fix It

Posted by techfocus on February 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

When Tomorrow Never Comes

Posted by techfocus on February 8, 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

“The Future is Now” - Embedded Tech Trends 2019

Posted by techfocus on February 1, 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