Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

Fish Fry 600: The Future of EV Battery Technology Innovation with Dr. Bor Jang

The 600th episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry podcast has arrived! My special guest is material sciences and battery technology expert Dr. Bor Jang. Dr. Jang was awarded the very first patent application on graphene in 2002 and that patent was later recognized in the Popular Mechanics’ 15 Patents That Changed the World. Dr. Jang is also a former Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors in 2019. In this week’s podcast, Dr. Jang and I discuss the biggest challenges facing EV battery technology day, the innovations Dr. Jang believes are needed to help solve these issues, and how recent advancements in solid state battery technology could be a game changer for the future of electric vehicles. 

Operation eVTOL: System Design Challenges for Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

This week’s podcast is all about electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft! Matt McAlonis from TE Connectivity and I explore the biggest design challenges for eVTOLs, strategies for managing power effectively within eVTOL systems, complexities of complying with new eVTOL certification requirements, and what Matt thinks it will take for eVTOL aircraft to become mainstream. 

One EDA Tool, One Giant Leap for Hardware: How JITX is Reshaping Circuit Board Design

This week my guest is JITX Co-founder and CEO Duncan Haldane. Duncan and I discuss the challenges of board design and how the benefits of software reuse encouraged the development of JITX, why holistic system design is cornerstone to the JITX software-defined electronics platform, and how you can improve your productivity with the JITX cookbook.

Everything Needs Power: Airborn’s New Power Engines and The Path to Clean Conducted Emissions

This week my podcast guest is Scott Poole from Airborn Connectors. Scott and I chat about next generation power systems, the challenges of low noise switching and how Airborn is tackling the issues surrounding clean conducted emissions. Also this week, I check out some teeny tiny batteries developed by a team of researchers at MIT that could help miniscule robots sense and respond to their environment

Speeding Down the Digital Highway: WiFi 6/6E and the Infineon’s New Connected MCUs

How about some WiFi 6 and 6E to start your Friday!? My podcast guest this week is Sivaram Trikutam (Infineon's Vice President of Wi-Fi). Sivaram and I discuss the advancements in the world of WiFi and Bluetooth, why interoperability and standardization are crucial to global IoT adoption and the benefits that Infineon’s new AIROC™ Wi-Fi connected microcontrollers bring to IoT applications. Also this week, I check out a new smart material developed by a team of researchers at the University of Waterloo that can convert body heat into electricity. 

TinyML, NPUs and AI SDK: Ceva’s Guide to IoT Innovation

My guest this week is Chad Lucien from Ceva! Chad and I talk all about the future of edge AI, the advantages of TinyML, and Ceva’s NeuPro NPUs. Chad and I also discuss about the motivation to behind the creation of Ceva’s new NeuPro-Nano NPU, the details of the architecture of this new NPU family, the benefits that their AI SDK brings to the table, and why TinyML dedicated hardware is more important now than ever before.

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.