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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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Friday Dec 08, 2017
Friday Dec 08, 2017
In a long-forgotten corner of a lab far, far away a bug sits idle. He’s waiting for just the right time to strike. Static analysis and testing will not budge him from his hiding place. Is there anything we can do to root out this software bug from his clever code camouflage? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry we investigate the power of formal verification with Quentin Ochem from AdaCore. With virtual light sabers in hand and the "Formal Force" in our hearts, we investigate why the ever-increasing need for software safety and reliability has made formal verification more important than ever before.
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Links for December 8, 2017
More information about AdaCore
AdaCore Booklet: Implementation Guidance for the Adoption of SPARK
New Episode of Chalk Talk: IDesignSpec: Executable Register Specification
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon>
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager -- MediaTek
Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper
Friday Dec 01, 2017
Friday Dec 01, 2017
There’s an elephant in the room. You know it and I know it too. Whether we start with the trunk or the tail, the truth is clear. Our power grids are overtaxed, transformer technology has hit its limit, and “vampire power” (stand-by power wasted) is becoming a bigger problem than ever before. What can we do about our aging, overtaxed, and under-loved power grid? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Harold Blomquist (CEO of Helix Semiconductors) joins us to discuss how capacitive conversion, MuxCapacitors, and less waste can strengthen our peaked power grids.
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Links for December 1, 2017
More information about Helix Semiconductors
New Episode of Chalk Talk: USB Type-C and Power Delivery
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager -- MediaTek
Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper
Friday Nov 24, 2017
Friday Nov 24, 2017
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we have a special in-depth interview with the founders of Maker Faire. Fish Fry field reporter Larra Morris sits down with co-founder Dale Dougherty to discuss the intersection between makers and professional engineers and what the engineering community can learn from the maker ecosystem. Also this week, Larra chats with Maker Faire co-founder Sherry Huss about the evolution of Maker Faire and how professional engineers can get involved in the maker movement.
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Links for November 24, 2017
More information about Maker Faire
More information about Maker Media
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager -- MediaTek
Friday Nov 17, 2017
Friday Nov 17, 2017
We all know the drill. With fingers crossed and hopes held high, you send your board design off to manufacturing. Unless you’re the world’s most meticulous engineer, your design will get bounced back. In the process of fixing those pesky bugs, a whole lot more errors may work themselves into your original design. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we investigate the pitfalls and problems that plague our manufacturing handoff board design process. Hemant Shah (Cadence Design Systems) joins us to discuss how we can fix our bugs sooner with Design True DFM and avoid other problems down the line. Also this week, we take a look at the world’s smallest integrated multimeter, digital storage oscilloscope, and logger called Pokit making its debut on Kickstarter later this month.
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Links for November 17, 2017
Friday Nov 10, 2017
Friday Nov 10, 2017
Where else can you go for not one but two electronic engineering interviews with two of the coolest executives in the biz? Yep, right here. First up, Robert Blake (Achronix - CEO) and I discuss the details of their Speedcore custom blocks, the issues surrounding the efficiency of computation in SoC design, and the benefits of FPGA acceleration core integration. Also this week, Mike Wishart (efabless - CEO) gives us all the info about their new design challenge series called “Go Configure”. Mike and I chat about the who, what, when, and how of this contest: what is involved, what kind of engineers should participate, and what motivated efabless to create this design contest.
Links for November 11, 2017
More information about Achronix
Achronix Speedcore Custom Blocks Supercharge Data Acceleration Systems
More information about efabless
More information about The Go Configure Design Challenge Series
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Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager -- MediaTek
Friday Nov 03, 2017
Friday Nov 03, 2017
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we have a special selection of interviews from the 2017 MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress Technology Showcase. To start things off, Aaron Aders (Founder and CEO of LEIF Technologies) introduces us to the world’s first light electric vehicle that is taking the smooth movement of snowboarding to our city streets (with a little help from some on-board MEMS). Next, we check out a new miniaturized optical gas sensor from eLICHENS that utilizes infrared technology, specialized signal processing, and a patented optical sensing chamber to help better analyze air quality and pollution. Also this week, we chat with Chris Giovanniello (SVP and Co-Founder of Menlo Micro) about their micro-switch technology that could improve the size, speed, power handling, and reliability of MEMS switches. Last but certainly not least, we talk with Gerald Harvey from PZFLEX about domain simulation for MEMS sensors and system integration.
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Links for November 3, 2017
More information about the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress
More information about the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress Technology Showcase
More information about LEIF Technologies
More information about eLichens
More information about Menlo Micro
Click here to check out the Fish Fry Archive.
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Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor
Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager -- MediaTek
Friday Oct 27, 2017
Friday Oct 27, 2017
We’ve all felt like Dr. Frankenstein at some point in our careers, right? We kludge together a board with a wide variety of parts, add electricity and some blue smoke, and then (if we are lucky) we have created the perfect monster. Without a proper avenue for financing and a solid plan to bring your monster into the world (without mobs of angry townspeople), all of your hard work can be worth little to nothing. In this week’s Fish Fry, we are take a closer look at how Kickstarter, Dragon Innovation, and Avnet’s Hardware Studio can help take your next little monstrous prototype out of your basement lab and into the real world of manufacturing.
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Links for October 27, 2017
Avnet, Dragon Innovation and Kickstarter Launch Hardware Studio
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Protium S1, the Most Productive FPGA-Based Prototyping Solution
Friday Oct 20, 2017
Friday Oct 20, 2017
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” - John F. Kennedy
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we reach down deep into your embedded system code to find exactly where your security measures have fallen short. Andrew Girson (The Barr Group) joins us to discuss the ethical nature of embedded security, the specifics of The Barr Group’s security action plan and why you should check out their new book called Embedded C Coding Standard.
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Links for October 20, 2017
More information about The Barr Group
More information about The Barr Group's New Book: Embedded C Coding Standard
Elon Musk plans to put all of SpaceX’s resources into its Mars rocket
Elon Musk proposes city-to-city travel by rocket, right here on Earth
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Links for October 13, 2017
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Right this way, ladies and gentlemen, right this way! We’ve got a big top filled with delights from this year’s Maker Faire in New York City. In our first interview, Fish Fry special correspondent Larra Morris chats with high school student Sam Zeloof about the semiconductor fab that he built in his own home. Next, Larra investigates how Wi-Fi enabled sandals could save the world from nefarious hackers. To wrap things up, Larra checks out the world’s first self-driving kayak.
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Links for October 6, 2017
More information about the World Maker Faire
Feature Article by Kevin Morris: The Bright, Bright Future of Electronic Engineering - EE Journal Editors’ Choices for World Maker Faire 2017
Feature Article by Larra Morris: Missing the Mark on Makers - How Should Big Technology Companies Approach Makers
New Episode of Chalk Talk: High-Speed Backplane Connectors Drive 56 Gbps and Beyond