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Wow! AI-Powered “Sketch-on-Napkin” to Embedded Design

I was just thinking about the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, writer, and photographer, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll).

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass continue to influence us today, not just as beloved children’s stories … Read More → "Wow! AI-Powered “Sketch-on-Napkin” to Embedded Design"

A Transition to Software Defined Vehicles: How AMD is Enabling the Next Generation of Smart Cars

My podcast guest this week is Wayne Lyons, Automotive Director at AMD. Wayne and I discuss the trends encouraging the development of software defined vehicles, how AMD is furthering innovation in many different areas within automotive design and the trends Wayne sees sharing the future of automotive technology.

 

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AI-Based PCBA Machine Vision Solution Ensures Supply Chain Integrity

I wish you could visit me in Max’s World, where everything is bigger, brighter, and more colorful. The birds sing sweeter (and in harmony), the flowers are more fragrant, the butterflies are more brillacious—a neologism of brilliant and bodacious that I just invented—and the beer flows plentifully and cold. Most importantly, everyone is nice, kind, honorable, and trustworthy. No one would even dream … Read More → "AI-Based PCBA Machine Vision Solution Ensures Supply Chain Integrity"

Only the Most Epic Embedded Online Conference Ever!

The value of online (virtual) conferences is increasing in leaps and bounds as travel becomes more problematic and time is increasingly at a premium. Some of these events “stand proud in the crowd,” as it were. Allow me to expound, elucidate, and explicate. 

When it comes to embedded space (where no one can hear you scream), the virtual extravaganza on … Read More → "Only the Most Epic Embedded Online Conference Ever!"

Concurrent Technologies Ushers In the Next Generation of Mission-Critical Applications

My podcast guests this week are longtime friend of the show Nigel Forrester and Victoria Middleton from Concurrent Technologies. Nigel, Victoria and I chat about the importance of rigorous testing in mission-critical systems, the details of Concurrent’s mission-critical embedded computing solutions, and how Concurrent can help engineers determine what Intel processor board is … Read More → "Concurrent Technologies Ushers In the Next Generation of Mission-Critical Applications"

Secure-by-Design, Secure-by-Default: How SpiderOak is Protecting Data at the Edge

This week we are talking all about edge cyber security with David Pearah, CEO of SpiderOak. David and I explore why traditional cyber security solutions do not properly protect edge devices, how SpiderOak is empowering developers to protect their edge applications, and why they are also offering their technology platform as open source software. 

 

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Motor Control Innovation with PSOC™ Control C3 MCUs — Infineon and Mouser Electronics  PSOC™ Control is Infineon’s newest family of MCUs developed for motor control applications. This family of high-performance Arm® Cortex®- M33 MCUs enables designers to innovate and solve complex design problems for applications like HVAC, home appliances, robotics, telecom and server power supplies, light electric vehicle chargers, solar inverters, and industrial drives. In this episode … Read More → "Motor Control Innovation with PSOC™ Control C3 MCUs — Infineon and Mouser Electronics"
Using NXP’s FRDM Ecosystem to Break Down ML Complexity — NXP and Mouser Electronics  In this episode of Chalk Talk, Michael Pontikes from NXP and Amelia Dalton explore the details of the FRDM ecosystem from NXP. They explore the scalability component of this ecosystem, the details of the FRDM i.MX 93 Development Board and how the machine learning software and tools of this ecosystem will streamline and simplify … Read More → "Using NXP’s FRDM Ecosystem to Break Down ML Complexity — NXP and Mouser Electronics"
Accelerating Time to Fault Campaign Success with Siemens EDA — Siemens  In this episode of Chalk Talk, Ann Keffer and Robert Serphillips from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore how the Siemens EDA functional safety platform can guide your team through the complete ISO 26262 lifecycle. They also examine the benefits that the Veloce Fault App brings to automotive IC designs and how you can take … Read More → "Accelerating Time to Fault Campaign Success with Siemens EDA — Siemens"
Signal Conditioning Schematics with Signal Chain Designer — Analog Devices and Mouser  In this episode of Chalk Talk, Matt Duff from Analog Devices and Amelia Dalton walk through the steps involved to create an analog front end with Analog Devices Signal Chain Designer. With this tool, they demonstrate how you can quickly create circuits, simulate how the amplifier, filter and ADC interact and easily export to … Read More → "Signal Conditioning Schematics with Signal Chain Designer — Analog Devices and Mouser"
Gigaspeed isolated LVDS: Unlocking New Possibilities – Analog Devices and Mouser Electronics  Analog Devices’ Gigaspeed Isolated LVDS family of devices offers versatility when designing isolation for gigaspeed applications. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Fabio Bottinelli from Analog Devices and Amelia Dalton explore the history of isolation technologies at Analog Devices. They also investigate which technology solutions are best suited for safe and robust communications, and … Read More → "Gigaspeed isolated LVDS: Unlocking New Possibilities – Analog Devices and Mouser Electronics"
Building Trusted Industrial Automated Control Systems with MAXQ1065 — Analog Devices and Mouser Electronics  In this episode of Chalk Talk, Christophe Tremlet from Analog Devices and Amelia explore how we can build trusted industrial automated control systems with the MAXQ1065 Ultra-Low-Power Cryptographic Controller with ChipDNA™ for Embedded Devices. They investigate how this solution utilizes physical unclonable function encrypted memory, secure key storage and asymmetric crypto public key deployment … Read More → "Building Trusted Industrial Automated Control Systems with MAXQ1065 — Analog Devices and Mouser Electronics"