September 23, 2011

A Bear, a Transistor and a Process Node Walk Into a Bar

by Amelia Dalton

In this week's Fish Fry, I interview James Wang (SmartBear Software - Vice President) about the age old gap between hardware and software designers and how SmartBear's tool suite can help bridge that divide.  

Also this week, I check in on Samsung's progress on 20nm process node and investigate how the National Science Foundation is trying to make the transistor obsolete.  

I have a DE0-Nano Development Board to give out this week, but you'll have to listen to find out how you can win.

Channels

EDA. Embedded. FPGA. Software.

 

Watch Previous Fish Frys

Fish Fry Links - September 23, 2011

Fresh Byte - Space Junk Falling From the sky

National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million In Grants to Nanoelectronics

More Information about the 2011 International Electron Devices Meeting

DAC Panel hosted by Cadence "Getting a Jumpstart on 20nm"

More Information about Samsung's 20nm process node

More information about SmartBear Software

DE0-Nano Development Board

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO - Xilinx

John Bruggeman, Former CMO - Cadence Design Systems

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO - Lattice Semiconductor

Lauro Rizzatti, Vice President of Marketing, EVE

Bill Neifert, CTO - Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO - Forte Design Systems

Kapil Shankar, CEO - SiliconBlue

Andy Pease, CEO - QuickLogic

Rajeev Madhavan, CEO - Magma 

Comments:

amelia

In this week's Fish Fry, I check out SmartBear Software's peer review tool suite with VP James Wang, look into Samsung's venture into the 20nm process node and give you a chance to win another DE0-Nano Development Kit. What do you think? Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:46 PM

krotar

Amelia, Thanks for your program every week. I have wanted to build a FPGA-based video game console (NES / Arcade stle) for a while now and the DE0-Nano Dev Kit would be cool to use for it. I can see myself adding a LCD screen and speaker (PWM Audio) and using the accelerometer to control character/cursor movement. The ADC could be used for other inputs or for a seperate controller input. Posted on September 23, 2011 at 6:52 PM

rosinkrans

I'm very interested in this board. I have been using Altera FPGAs for high speed imaging (+500fps) with good success and I have a idea for a new project I want to make a low cost camera system with standard cameras (probably the one TeraAsic offers) for gesture recognition. I would use the Altera VIP suite + some costume blocks for it. F.x. you move your hand certain way to turn on a light, or you raise your hand to turn up the volume etc.. Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:49 PM

kb1ikn

Amelia, I am interested in building a low cost UAV with with pre-programmed waypoints or POIs. I hope this project will further my design cred here in the world of electrical engineering. Thanks for keeping the EE world entertaining and interesting. Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:22 AM

Sherifkamel

Intelligent video surveillance traffic control system would be a great and valuable project Thanks for the idea Posted on September 29, 2011 at 3:39 AM