Fish Fry – EEJournal

February 14, 2020

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. – Bruce Lee

We’re getting all charged up in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! First up, Chris Giovanniello (Co-Founder, SVP Marketing – Menlo Micro) joins me to discuss trends in power management and how their ideal switch technology can not only save you a whole lot of power, but also help you with your SWaP-C requirements as well. Keeping with our powerful theme this week, Jerry Hovdestad, David Gash (Behlman Electronics) and I chat about standardization in the SOSA power supplies and the benefits … Read More → "Have Power, Will Travel"

The Sustainment Slog

Product Pruning and Finding Your Point of No Return

by Amelia Dalton

February 7, 2020

When does sustainment become a slog? When does the bottom one percent of your sales become too much to bear? In this week’s Fish Fry, we are diving into the world of OEM product management with Ethan Plotkin and Siku Thompson from GDCA. Ethan, Siku and I discuss supply chain trust, integrated sustainment, and the hidden costs associated with ad hoc orders. Also this week, we take a closer look at some revolutionary new research from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab that is creating drinking water from atmospheric humidity with a little help from metal-organic frameworks.

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Super Standards to the Rescue

2020 Embedded Tech Trends, SOSA, and The Grey Box Concept

by Amelia Dalton

January 31, 2020

In this week’s podcast, we are tackling two of the biggest themes at this year’s Embedded Tech Trends Conference: SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) and artificial intelligence processing at the edge. First up, I take a closer look at SOSA with Rodger Hosking from Pentek. Rodger and I discuss the role SOSA will have in the war fighting technology, what the future holds for this open systems architecture, and what exactly the “Grey Box Concept” is all about. Next up, Doug Patterson from AiTech and I discuss some real world examples of AI processing … Read More → "Super Standards to the Rescue"

Infinite Compute Capacity

DVCon U.S 2020 and EDA in the Cloud

by Amelia Dalton

January 24, 2020

Design automation and verification take center stage in this week’s podcast! First up, Seena Shankar (Cadence Design Systems) joins me to discuss the power of cloud computing in EDA. Next, Vanessa Cooper (DVCon U.S. Technical Program Committee Chair) gives special sneak peek into this year’s Design and Verification Conference and Expo. Vanessa and I discuss the various workshops and tutorials offered at this year’s conference and why you should book your registration sooner than later.

New Kid on the Block

The Rise of RISC-V, Embedded Design Trends, and Xenobots!

by Amelia Dalton

January 17, 2020

This week’s podcast is one part frog embryo, one part embedded design, and one part crystal ball! To start things off, we take a closer look at how a team of research scientists have created a new form of life (a living, programmable organism called a Xenobot) with a little help from African frog embryos, an algorithm that simulates designs for new life-forms, and the Deep Green supercomputer cluster at the Vermont Advanced Computing Core. Also this week, Dunstan Power (ByteSnap Design) and I discuss a variety of design trends for 2020, including the rise of RISC-V, the role … Read More → "New Kid on the Block"

Thermal Trials and Temperature Tales

Thermal-Electric Co-Simulation for System Analysis

by Amelia Dalton

January 10, 2020

We all know that today’s engineering teams are facing increasing challenges surrounding thermal aware designs. Whether you are designing a board, an IC, or a system, we all struggle with thermal and electrical simulation at one point or another. In this week’s Fish Fry, Jerry Zhao (Cadence Design Systems) and I discuss the challenges of thermal and electrical simulation and the benefits of electrical and thermal co-simulation of multi-physics designs.

Hyperscale to the Rescue

To 800G and Beyond

by Amelia Dalton

January 3, 2020

In this week’s podcast we take a closer look at how the increase of machine to machine data traffic has encouraged a movement toward spine leaf architecture and die-to-die connectivity in hyperscale data centers. Manmeet Walia (Synopsys) joins me this week to discuss the evolution of data center technology and how the challenges surrounding cache currency and network functionality is driving change in the world of hyper scale data centers. Also this week, we check out a new Kickstarter campaign called Flash Forest that is looking to plant a billion trees by 2028 with a little help from a … Read More → "Hyperscale to the Rescue"

Warp Speed Ahead

Adventures in Photonics and The World's First Quantum FM Radio

by Amelia Dalton

December 20, 2019

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” – Captain Kirk, Starship Enterprise

I’ve got three words for you: Quantum FM Radio! In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we take an in-depth look at some revolutionary quantum research coming out of University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering that will not only change the future of quantum mechanics as we know it, but also pave the way for unhackable communication channels, the teleportation of single electron states, and the realization of a quantum internet. Also this week, … Read More → "Warp Speed Ahead"

Communication Breakdown

Cyber-physical Challenges, LIDAR’s Gold Rush, and Adventures in Packaging

by Amelia Dalton

December 13, 2019

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we start things off with an investigation into the cyber-physical world with Ian Dennison from Cadence Design Systems. Ian and I talk about the challenges of connecting the physical world with the virtual world of information processing and why we are experiencing a “Gold Rush” in LiDAR these days. Also this week, I sit down with Dave Caserza and Ken Grob from Elma Electronic to discuss the evolution of packaging standards and why guidance for new system architectures is needed today more than ever before. To finish up this week’s podcast, … Read More → "Communication Breakdown"

All of the Information: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

How Aspinity is Changing the Always-On Game

by Amelia Dalton

December 6, 2019

Did you know that over a hundred devices are connected to the internet every second? In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we take a closer look at the challenges facing us as we develop the next generation of connected devices. Tom Doyle (CEO – Aspinity) joins me to discuss the details of Aspinity’s innovative RAMP (Reconfigurable Analog Modular Processor) platform, the “deal breakers” as he sees them when it comes to IoT designs, and why the answer to our always-on, always-sensing power challenges is architectural. Also this week, we check out Kickstarter’s Make 100 campaign and a … Read More → "All of the Information: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"

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