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March 6, 2015

What do the blue-rayed limpet and silver nanowires have to do with advances in touchscreen technology? Absolutely everything! This week’s Fish Fry looks into how silver-coated nanowires are changing the touchscreens and OLEDs of today, and could change the film-based solar cells and flexible displays of tomorrow. My guest is Sri Peruvemba from Cambrios, and we discuss the technology behind silver nanowires, how they can be implemented into a variety of designs, and what The Society for Information Display is all about. Also this week, we check out a groundbreaking new study by a team of researchers from … Read More → "The Touchscreen Revolution"

In It to Win It

Achronix Takes Speedster to Production Prime Time

by Amelia Dalton

February 27, 2015

The green flag dropped long ago. The pole-sitters have put the pedal to the metal on their high-octane beasts and vanished around the bend. Circling the course, the leaders of the pack fly ahead, their eyes fixed on the twists and turns of smaller and smaller geometries, without even a glance into the rearview. Don’t look now! A dark horse is coming up quickly and quietly, stealthily stalking both leaders, attacking their most profitable lines. The programmable logic race has been ruled by a duopoly for years, but now an up-an-comer looks to change the … Read More → "In It to Win It"

Soup to Nuts

Design Verification’s Party of the Year and Supply Chain Risks We Should Avoid

by Amelia Dalton

February 20, 2015

In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re serving up a virtual smorgasbord of EE goodness! First up, it’s a trip to the global supply chain salad bar with Lynn Torrel from Avnet. Lynn and I dig into the biggest trends driving the global supply chain, the challenges of multi-dimensional supply chain security, and which supply chain risks you should take head on. Our next guest is Yantin Trivedi who’s here to spill the beans on this year’s biggest design verification party – DVCon 2015. Finally, we round out our scrumptious EE feast … Read More → "Soup to Nuts"

For the Love of Innovation

Crossbar’s RRAM and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

by Amelia Dalton

February 13, 2015

In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re talking about our love of innovation big and small. From Crossbar’s recent breakthrough in non-volatile RRAM memory technology to the latest news from the land of Raspberry Pi. My first guest is Sagar Jethani from Element14. Sagar is here to give us the goods on the new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Wondering how this new Pi compares with the Pis of the past? Curious about its quad cores and how your model B+ accessories will work with this new model? Never fear, … Read More → "For the Love of Innovation"

One Drone to Rule Them All

The ZANO Drone Flying High with a Little Help from xPico WiFi

by Amelia Dalton

February 6, 2015

Buckle your seatbelt, make sure your tray table is stowed, and be sure you’ve read our helpful in-flight safety pamphlet – because we’re taking flight! This week’s Fish Fry is about the tiniest drone this side of CES – the ZANO nano drone. My guest is Keith Chu (Lantronix) and we’re getting into the WiFi-enabled guts of this itty-bitty WiFi controlled nano drone. (Spoiler Alert: You fly it with your smart phone!) Also this week, we’re checking out a new quadcopter that would make Han Solo proud, and looking into how you can … Read More → "One Drone to Rule Them All"

O-Scope Down

Whoa, That's a Big Piece of Equipment You've Got There

by Amelia Dalton

January 30, 2015

Fresh from the land of eye diagrams, super-fast SerDes, and more board design software than you’ll ever need, it’s Fish Fry! This week we investigate some of the biggest themes presented at this year’s DesignCon in Santa Clara, CA. Our first guest is Rohde & Schwarz CEO Scott Bausback who joins Fish Fry to help us understand the ever-evolving world of test and measurement, explain how IOT will affect the evolution of T&M, and what it’s like to build a recording studio in your house. Also this week, we chat with Stephanie … Read More → "O-Scope Down"

Buggy Bingo

Undo Software’s Live Recorder Makes Production Bugs A Thing of the Past

by Amelia Dalton

January 23, 2015

Needle in the haystack got you down? Got them buggy software blues slowin’ your stride? Never fear, Fish Fry is here with a podcastin’ elixir to blow those blues (and bugs) away. In this week’s episode, we tackle production software bugs with Undo Software CEO Greg Law. Greg is here to unveil the new bug-busting capabilities of Undo Software’s production bug insecticide: Live Recorder. Also this week, we check out why the Palo Alto Starbucks may not be the best spot for a super-secret meeting about your new IOT prototype. Finally, we see how The … Read More → "Buggy Bingo"

Silicon Fingerprints and Smartphone Modules

Adventures in Unclonable Function Technology and Project Ara Development

by Amelia Dalton

January 15, 2015

Ready. Set. Authenticate. This week’s Fish Fry investigates how Microsemi FPGAs are changing the cyber-security landscape one PUF (Physically Unclonable Function) at a time. My guest is Tim Morin from Microsemi. Tim joins Fish Fry for the first time – discussing the zeros and ones of PUF technology, explaining why it’s so important to today’s IoT products, and revealing what it’s really like to own fourteen (whoa) horses. Also this week, I unveil some seriously cool news from the most recent Google Project Ara Developer’s Conference.</ … Read More → "Silicon Fingerprints and Smartphone Modules"

Electronic Design – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

An In-Depth Interview with Kevin Morris

by Amelia Dalton

January 8, 2015

Time to break out the sparklers, the bailing wire, and your best O-scope. We’re having an EE party In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law. In this week’s Fish Fry, we investigate how Gordon Moore’s legendary 1965 article in Electronics Magazine set the stage for a remarkable half-century of innovation in our industry. We also look at how (and why) Moore’s Law may not mean as much going forward as it has in the past. My guest is Kevin Morris, editor-in-chief of EE Journal. Kevin is here to chat with me about how … Read More → "Electronic Design – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"

What You Call EDA, I Call IP

EDA Past, Present, and Future with Lucio Lanza

by Amelia Dalton

December 19, 2014

He’s toiled at this project for years – dreamt about it, laid awake at night thinking about it, and even built a lab in his basement to test it. Eventually he brought in friends (from work mostly) to fill in the missing pieces, and before he knew it they really had something. We all know this story. It has played out time and time again. It’s the story of the startup, and today’s Fish Fry celebrates the men and women who work every day with innovation in their hearts and minds. My distinguished guest is Lucio Lanza, … Read More → "What You Call EDA, I Call IP"