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

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 of security in embedded design, and why he expects to see a big push into machine learning-driven by tools from Xilinx and Intel.

 

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Team Builds the First Living Robots: Tiny ‘xenobots’ assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up (UVM Today)

Living robots built using frog cells (Science Daily)

 

 

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