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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 05, 2014
Friday Dec 05, 2014
Bob killed the headlights and put the car in park. We sat in silence. Eerie lights danced on the horizon. First east, then west, and then straight up into the night sky. We watched with mouths agape as the lights came closer (and closer), only to quietly fade away. A UFO in our midst? Not quite. HLS. Most of us have been watching the skies in hopes for the arrival of High Level Synthesis for years. Steering today's HLS-powered flying saucer is my guest Mark Miligan (Calypto Design Systems). Mark is here to reveal the mysteries of Catapult 8. He'll shine a light on how HLS is powering image processing and video applications, and explain how we can get to design closure from the top or the bottom. Also this week, we introduce a Kickstarter campaign that aims to bring fashion-forward wearable fitness monitors to your next holiday wish list.
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Links for December 5, 2014
More information about Calypto Design Systems
Calypto Launches the Catapult 8 Platform: Third Generation High-Level Synthesis Technology
Kickstarter Corner: Ear-O-Smart
Friday Nov 21, 2014
Friday Nov 21, 2014
This week’s Fish Fry is all about your next PCB design. From power integrity to mixed-signal place and route, from gerber files to schematics, from output pins over the FR4 and through the vias, to grandma’s house we go. My first guest this week is Greg Lebsack from Tanner EDA, and we discuss why you want a digital place and route tool, integrating ye ol’ analog into your next design, and what Tanner EDA brings to the mixed-signal party. Next up, we bring in Hemant Shah from Cadence Design Systems to chat about one of the biggest pain points of PCB design: the hand off to manufacturing. Hemant and I investigate a rapidly expanding industry consortium that is hoping to change all of that awful file hand off once and for all.
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Links for November 21, 2014
More information about Tanner EDA
More information about the IPC 2581 Consortium
New Episode of Chalk Talk - The Vault
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Last week, we investigated how new MEMS-enhanced devices are changing the way we interact with our tennis rackets, beer kegs, and video games (you know, the important stuff), but this week, we’re going past the world of CE to a land where the power budgets are tight, the BOMs are tighter, and the number of sensors soars into the millions. Yep, we’re talking about MEMS in the medical machine. My guest is Rick Russell, President of Merit Sensor Systems. Rick is here to introduce us to a whole new world of pressure sensors, explain why Merit has their own wafer fab, and map out where the MEMS market is headed in the future. Then, keeping with our medical theme, we also check out a new MEMS-enhanced eating-sensing earpiece looking for some Indigogo cash that will not only listen to your bites but also have you talking to your food.
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Links for November 14, 2014
More information about Merit Sensor Systems
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
What do head injuries, beer, and smart tennis rackets have in common? The MEMS Executive Congress, that's what! (Thought I was going somewhere else with that, didn't ya?) Keeping with our Friday Fun theme, this week's Fish Fry digs into how MEMS-enhanced designs can measure the amount of beer left in your keg, alert your coach about a potential head injury, and improve your tennis game. We chat about several cool designs submitted to this year's MEMS Executive Congress Technology Showcase by companies Nod Labs, Babolat, and Kegdata. Also this week, we look at the way Force Impact Technologies wants to change how we address head injuries on the ball field.
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Links for November 7, 2014
More information about the MEMS Executive Congress
More information about the MEMS Executive Congress' Technology Showcase
More information about Kegdata
More information about Nod Labs
Friday Oct 31, 2014
Friday Oct 31, 2014
It’s creepy! It’s crawly! It occasionally has scales! It’s Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry! This week we're celebrating one of the coolest and one might say, creepiest scientists, electrical engineers, and visionaries the world has ever seen - Nikola Tesla. My guest this week is a physicist, she can run a nuclear reactor, she can teach how to solder, and most importantly for today’s broadcast, she is one of the founders of oneTesla - Heidi Baumgartner. Heidi is here to explain exactly how you can build your very own singing Tesla coil, how she became involved with oneTesla, and what its like to vacation at Chernobyl. Also this week, we check out why 8-bit MCUs shouldn’t be thrown out like last year’s Halloween candy.
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Links for October 31, 2014
More information about onetesla
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Function Enablement with 8-bit PIC Microcontrollers
Friday Oct 24, 2014
Friday Oct 24, 2014
What’s the difference between a human and a pile of rocks? A robot algorithm! (Of course) In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we check out a new robot being developed at the University of Guadalajara that utilizes a pattern recognition algorithm to determine the silhouette of a human body. Also this week, we delve into the trials and tribulations of SoC design with Bill Neifert of Carbon Design Systems. Bill and I chat about how Carbon is focusing on the automatic creation of RTL-accurate models for integration into SoC designs and how you can make your IP configuration options a whole bunch easier.
Friday Oct 17, 2014
Friday Oct 17, 2014
This here twin-turbo EEJournal.com podcastin’ hot rod is headed to the IoT finish line - one biometric at a time. In this week’s Fish Fry, we investigate biometric data sensors and how one company is making sure that our fitness is actually what we think it is. My guest is Valencell President Steven LeBoeuf. Steven and I are going to chat about the future of the wearable market, precision biometrics, Valencell’s new state-of-the-art sports testing lab, and a little bit about professional cartooning. Get your wearable motor runnin' folks!
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Links for October 17, 2014
More information about Valencell
New Episode of Chalk Talk: 4-Channel Analog Front End Solution
Click Here to take a free survey and enter for a chance to win a MAXSANTAFEEVSYS Kit courtesy of Maxim Integrated.
Friday Oct 10, 2014
Friday Oct 10, 2014
It's time to saddle up and ride into the gyro-enhanced, acceleratometer-ized, MEMs-ified MEMS Corral. This week's celebrates the Wild West of Electronics - MEMs and Sensor based technology. This week my pardner in crime is none other than Karen Lightman. Karen gives us a special sneak peak into this year's 10th annual MEMS Executive Congress. I do hope you have your spurs locked on tight, your saddle equipped with the newest Context Aware sensors, and your O-scope is spit cleaned and polished, we're riding straight to MEM-ified Corral. This may get messy...
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Links for October 10, 2014
More information about the MEMS Executive Congress
New Episode of Chalk Talk: What is Electrically Aware Design?
Friday Oct 03, 2014
Friday Oct 03, 2014
We all know it's coming. It's only a matter of time. Skynet is close at hand. This week's Fish Fry takes a look at a new study released by the University of North Carolina that has made reconfigurable metal a reality. But, before we can build Skynet (or build the counter-revolutionary forces led by the one and only John Connor) we must be able to connect the IoT communication dots. Today's episode also examines two of the many building blocks needed to get this sci-fi plot line from fantasy to fact. We chat with John Beal and Artem Aginskiy about a new RF-enhanced embedded microcontroller family from Texas Instruments (SimpleLink) and TI's C5000 fixed-point DSP products.
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Links for October 3, 2014
Researchers Control Surface Tension to Manipulate Liquid Metals (Video)
Giant and switchable surface activity of liquid metal via surface oxidation (Whitepaper)
More information about SimpleLink
More information about the TMS320C5517 - Fixed-Point Digital Signal Processor
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Increase FPGA Performance with Enhanced Capabilities of Synplify Pro & Premier
Friday Sep 26, 2014
Friday Sep 26, 2014
The music is loud, the rhythm - infectious, but it's the backbeat that has us tapping our toes and coming back for more. We're all jamming to the same IoT tune, but what keeps the cadence in 4/4 time? My guest this week is Phil Callahan from Silicon Labs and we discuss this dance called IoT, from the internet infrastructure laying down its chord progression to the super cool demo solos Silicon Labs will be showing at this year's X-fest. Also this week, we check out another musical melody that has finally revealed...the sound of a single atom.
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Links for September 26, 2014
Propagating phonons coupled to an artificial atom (Research Article)
More information about Silicon Labs IoT solutions
More information about Silicon Labs solutions for internet infrastructure
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Physically Aware Synthesis Techniques to Lower Power, Improve Timing, Congestion & Correlation