Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

Prove It!

Can you imagine a world without mistakes? Maybe it would be cool, but most likely it would be pretty boring. Heck, it might even mean some of us would lose our jobs. This week’s Fish Fry, we visit a conference dedicated to engineering mistakes: DVCon. We investigate three major the themes of this year’s Design Verification Conference: UVM, emulation, and FPGA-based prototyping. Shishpal Rawat (Chairman - Accellera Systems Initiative) and I sit down to discuss the importance of standardization in emulation and UVM, the value of design verification tutorials, and why verification needs to happen at many different levels of abstraction. Also this week, we check out theadvantages of an integrated prototyping solution which may just put ad-hoc FPGA-based physical prototyping out of business once and for all.

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Links for March 4, 2016

More information about DVCon 2016

More information about The Accellera Systems Intiative 

New Episode of Chalk Talk: The Market Shift to Integrated Physical Prototyping

Help NASA Create Better Vision for Robonaut

Writing on the Wall

Are you ready? We're about to flip the script on digital handwriting as you know it. Handwriting recognition has come a long way from the days of the Apple Newton but until now, it hadn't bridged the gap between the natural input you want and the digital input we use in our everyday lives. In this week's Fish Fry, we take a closer look at a new technology from MyScript called Interactive Ink. Gary Baum (VP - MyScript) joins us to discuss the what, where, and how of this revolutionary new digital handwriting technology and why it's going to change the future of human machine interfaces. Also this week, we check out the many challenges of choosing the right connectors for embedded vision designs.

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Links for February 26, 2016

More information about MyScript

Video: Discover the Power of Interactive Ink from MyScript

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Molex Embedded Vision

ATCA and AMC for You and Me

This week we’re taking the A Train to a land of wicked fast communications with a little help from advanced mezzanine card technology and advanced telecommunications computing architecture. On the AMC side of the tracks, we chat with Paul Kuepfer about VadaTech’s new Xilinx Virtex-based AMC595 and their new DAQ Software aimed at data acquisition systems. Rob Persons (Artesyn) is here to bring us the goods on ATCA: where it’s headed in the future, why it’s so important in today’s communication designs, and how it’s helping out the United States Navy. Also this week, we check out IBM’s new gig for Watson: choosing players for the Toronto Raptors. 

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Links for February 19, 2016

More information about VadaTech

VadaTech Launches the Industry’s Highest Performance FPGA AMC

More information about Artesyn

Artesyn to Showcase COTS Embedded Computing Solutions for Military and Aerospace at WEST 2016

IBM’s Watson: Helping Sports Teams Make Talent Decisions

IoT with a Side of Pi

In a special Maker edition of Fish Fry, we're serving up a little internet of things with a side of Raspberry Pi. My guest Kevin Bromber (CEO - myDevices) and I check out Cayenne - the world's first drag-and-drop IoT project builder. We’ll look at what sets it apart from the rest of the IoT pack and how you can get your next Raspberry Pi-fueled IoT design up and running in mere minutes. Also this week, we take a closer look at a Kickstarter campaign that aims to take your drone dreams to a whole new level.

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Links for February 12, 2016

myDevices Launches Cayenne, the World’s First Drag-and-Drop IoT Project Builder

More information about myDevices

Kickstarter Corner: Learn to Code, Play with Drone: CoDrone

Safety (and Security) First

In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re taking on safety, security, and the embedded design software in between. Michael May (Express Logic) and I start things off with an in-depth discussion about the ongoing design-in battle between 32 and 64 bit processors and where ThreadX RTOS fits into the embedded ecosystem. Keeping with this week’s embedded software theme, I also chat with Jim McElroy (LDRA) about what we need to do when our designs must adhere to a security-critical standard, why TÜV Certification is so important, and what it's like to captain a whale watching boat. 

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Links for February 5, 2016

More information about Express Logic

More information about LDRA

LDRA Extends TÜV Certification of Compliance Tools, Further Solidifying Leadership Role in Safety and Security Markets

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Cadence Tensilica Vision P5

Size Matters

Innovation big and small is the name of the game in this week's episode of Fish Fry. First up, we examine the newest advances in touchscreen technology with Jon Brodd and Kelly Ingham from Cima NanoTech. Jon and Kelly reveal the details of their (almost) larger-than-life touchscreens and help us plot a course to the future of touchscreen technology. Also this week, we take a closer look at a new wireless neurotransmitter being developed at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Institute of Microelectronics and Biospark Technologies that could change the face of pain management forever. 

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Links for January 29, 2016

More information about Cima NanoTech

Cima NanoTech Powers the Next Generation of Large Touch Screen Displays

New Wireless Implantable Device from A*STAR’S IME and Biospark to Improve Chronic Pain Management

New Episode of  Chalk Talk - Introducing the Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform

Houston, We Have a Problem

Got your ten-gallon beanie propellers snapped on tight? We're headed straight to the heart of critical embedded computing - where the blackplanes run free and protocols fill the sky. In this week's Fish Fry, we're rustlin' up some Texas-sized open standards at the 2016 Embedded Tech Trends Conference in Houston Texas. First up, we chat with David Jedynak and Ivan Straznicky from Curtiss-Wright about VITA open standard 48.8, the first open standard AFT technology to support small form 3U VPX COTS modules. Also this week, Rodger Hosking (VP - Pentek) joins Fish Fry to discuss the VITA 49 Radio Transport protocol, the goods underneath the hood of Pentek’s Colbat FPGA boards, and why membership in the VITA Standards Organization is vital to our community.

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Links for January 22, 2016

More information about Embedded Tech Trends 2016

More information about Pentek

Pentek Adds VITA 49 Protocol Engine to Cobalt FPGA Boards

More information about Curtiss-Wright

Curtiss-Wright Announces Support for New VITA 48.8 Air Flow Through (AFT) Cooling Standard Effort

Jumping Jack Flash Memory

In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re exploring everyone’s favorite non-volatile memory technology: flash. (And not just any old kind of flash!) Scott Nelson from Toshiba gives us the scoop on a new 3D flash memory technology. We discuss the advantages of 3D flash memory and look at how 3D flash memory will change how we use memory technology in the future. Keeping with our 3D theme, we also check out a new 3D printing technique developed at Northwestern University that aims to make metallic 3D printing cheaper, faster, and more robust than ever before.

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Links for January 15, 2016 

More information about Toshiba's 3D Flash Memory 

Metallic Architectures from 3D-Printed Powder-Based Liquid Inks (Research Paper)

Follow the R&D Road

Nestled in the rain shadow (and yes, that really is a thing) between the Cascade Range and Siskiyou Mountains, sits a very unique foundry. A foundry that specializes in semiconductor, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and MEMS services for companies large, small, and everywhere in between. In this week’s Fish Fry, we take a closer look at Medford, Oregon-based Rogue Valley Microelectronics. Jessica Gomez (CEO - Rogue Valley Microelectronics) joins Fish Fry to discuss the many flavors of foundry services offered at Rogue Valley Micro, how their specialized R&D helps design dreams come true, and why they chose Medford for their foundry's home base. Also this week, we check out a new technology developed at the Tyndall National Institute that will revolutionize how we monitor radiation exposure in space.  

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Links for January 8, 2016

More information about Rogue Valley Microdevices

Groundbreaking Radiation Detector developed by Irish Researchers to Protect Astronauts will be space bound by June 2016

More information about the Tyndall National Institute 

Whitepaper: European Crew Personal Active Dosimeters (EuCPAD)

Locked Up Tight

The recent data breach at VTech brought IoT security issues roaring back into mainstream media, but here at EEJournal we've been tackling the perils of IoT security for years. In this week's Fish Fry, we welcome John Sirianni from Webroot to discuss the current landscape of IoT security, the specific challenges facing OEMs and system engineers when designing Industrial IoT applications, and why he thinks the number of IoT security breaches is increasing. Also this week, we take a look at a groundbreaking new algorithm developed by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab that hopes to solve the not so age-old question: "Is this selfie any good?"

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Links for December 18, 2015

More information about Webroot

More information about LaMEM (Large-scale Image Memorability)

Understanding and Predicting Image Memorability at a Large Scale (whitepaper)

LaMEM Demo