Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

IoT for You and Me: The Connected World According to Particle

IoT is the name of the game this week! Particle CEO Zach Supalla and I chat about Particle’s IoT platform as a service, the details of their new Powerful 5G single-board computer with AI accelerator Kickstarter campaign, and how particle can help you get your next IoT design to market. 

New Insights by Shifting Left: How Sigasi is Redefining Hardware Description Language Creation, Integration, and Validation

The shift left methodology takes center stage in this week’s podcast! My guests are Jane Judge and Dieter Therssen from Sigasi. Jane, Dieter and I discuss trends in front end chip design, why the shift-left methodology is a game changer for chip designers and how Sigasi is redefining hardware description language creation, integration, and validation through Sigasi Visual HDL Studio. 

Model-Based Design and the Rise of Software Defined Vehicle Development

This week model-based design and software defined vehicles take center stage! My guest Jim Tung (MathWorks fellow) and I discuss the trends driving a push toward software defined vehicles, the benefits of model-based design for SDV development and the tools that engineers should consider for virtualizing vehicle behavior. Also this week, I investigate a new enhanced event camera developed by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland which could vastly improve how robots see and react to the world around them.

Next Generation Wafers and the Future of Optical Connectivity

This week Mark Benton (TE Connectivity) joins me to chat all about rugged optical transceivers. Mark and I discuss how these transceivers can enable flexible embedded solutions, the challenges of unbalanced input and output channel counts in military and aerospace designs, and the benefits that modularity can bring to these kinds of designs. Also this week, I check out how you can take a trip to the outer edge of the stratosphere with the help of a space balloon. 

It's Not Just About Protecting the Chip: How Amida is Enhancing Security throughout the Semiconductor Lifecycle

My podcast guest this week is Margaret Schmitt, General Manager of the Microelectronics Security Division at Amida. We discuss common security threats facing microelectronics devices today, the details of Amida’s flagship Achilles solution, the innovative ways that Amida is enhancing security throughout the semiconductor lifecycle, and where Margaret sees hardware security headed in the future. 

All Powered Up: EVs, Wide Bandgap, and Saving the World with Power Semiconductors

Are you powered up for today’s Fish Fry? I certainly hope so!  My podcast guest Frank Heidemann (National Instruments) and I are diving into the world of power semiconductors. We chat about recent trends in the power semiconductor market, the benefits of wide bandgap power semiconductors and the role that power semiconductors will play for the future of electric vehicles. Also this week, I check out a new way to recover rare earth elements needed for green energy. (Spoiler alert: it involves egg shells!)

Fish Fry Special Edition: International Women in Engineering Day

In honor of International Women in Engineering Day, I have an extra podcast episode this week! My guests are Dawn Vertz from Kohler Energy, Sarah Boen from Tektronix and Rosa Chow from TDK. I sat down with each of these esteemed engineers and discussed their journeys into the world of high tech, how the EE landscape has changed over the years and what they would like to see in the future of engineering.

At Memory Compute: Advancements in AI Inference with Untether AI

In my podcast this week Bob Beachler from Untether and I explore Untether AI's unique approach to AI inference acceleration. We also chat about their recent collaboration with Arm and the benefits this collaboration brings to autonomous vehicle applications, and where Bob sees the evolution of AI-driven devices headed in the future. Also this week, I investigate how new research from the University of Michigan could help us decode dog barks… with the help of AI. 

The Communication Connection: Time Sensitive Networking, SOSA and the Ethernet Revolution

This week my podcast guest is longtime friend of the show Nigel Forrester from Concurrent Technologies! Nigel and I chat about time sensitive networking, how TSN profiles are grouped, what kind of standards are being developed to support these profiles, and how ethernet will pave the way for innovation in real-time communications in the future. Also this week, I check out how you can fly your very own eVTOL starting next month with the world's first commercial eVTOL!

A Sea Change in Analog RF Architectures: The Future According to Direct RF

What do Direct RF, next generation signal processing, and the acoustic wonder of spider webs have in common? This here podcast! Noah Donaldson (CTO - Annapolis Micro Systems) joins me this week to chat about why Direct RF is a game changer for signal acquisition and processing. We also discuss the challenges inherent with Direct RF, the biggest benefits of this technology, and where Noah sees Direct RF headed in the future. Also this week, I examine new research from Binghamton University that contends that  spider web acoustic sensing could lend itself to great strides in high-sensitivity, long-distance sound detection.