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November 22, 2013

In honor of Thanksgiving next week, we’re serving up a bountiful virtual turducken* of EE goodness. For the first course, we tackle that age old question: How do you train a fleet of robots to obey your every command? (The key to this quandary may be as close as the eyes on our faces.) In our next course, we serve up a feast of embedded software and embedded IP with Sheneka Coleman from Avnet. Lastly, we finsh up our fine Friday Fun meal with a tasty morsel from Eric Sigler of DigitalOptics. (DigitaOptics’s … Read More → "Thankful Times"

Get Your Motor Runnin’

Thing Power and LaunchPad Motor Control

by Amelia Dalton

November 15, 2013

Late fall doldrums got you down? Looking for a new project to break up the longer, darker nights? Dreaming of a motor control design for the holidays? Never fear! Fish Fry is here to help!

First up, we spin our motors on over to LaunchPad land with Chris Clearman from Texas Instruments, to check out a brand new motor control evaluation kit. And, what if your new motor control design didn’t just consume energy (yawn – how old school), but it also produced it? Well, it could if MicroGEN Systems has … Read More → "Get Your Motor Runnin’"

The MEMS Mothership

2013 MEMS Executive Congress

by Amelia Dalton

November 6, 2013

MEMS. The final frontier. What better place to check out some of the coolest innovation in our electronic engineering community than the 2013 MEMS Executive Congress. QuickLogic has jumped into the MEMS space in big way, and this week Brian Faith (VP – QuickLogic) breaks it all down for us. We’re also waxing MEMS poetic with Alissa Fitzgerald (Founder – AMFitzgerald) and Peter Himes (VP – Silex Microsystems) about the future of innovation in the MEMS sphere. Join us as we get our MEMS on!

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ARM Wrestling

More MIPS Less Power

by Amelia Dalton

November 1, 2013

Dateline: November 1st. 2013 – 11 hundred hours. Sunnyvale. California. ARMed and Dangerous. We’re in the high tech trenches – MCU’s activated, knee deep in IP, connecting to the IoT, reading from SSD, wearing our GUIs like they are going out of style, and loving every big.LITTLE minute of it. Where o’ where could we be? ARM TechCon. Of course. (Come on, like you didn’t know.) In a special ARM TechCon double header, I check out hardware and software debug with Glenn Woppman (CEO – ASSET InterTech) and open source software for ARM SoCs with … Read More → "ARM Wrestling"

Your Power Plane or Mine?

by Amelia Dalton

October 24, 2013

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Go directly to the power plane. Whether we like it or not, power integrity analysis is now a bigger (and messier) part of our PCB design process. In this week’s Fish Fry, we get down to the bare metal of those pesky power planes with Brad Griffin of Cadence. Also this week, we check out a super cool new 3D printed robot (yes, you want one) and investigate what sets this little cutie apart from other humanoid robots.

One Trillion and Counting

2013 TSensors Summit Preview

by Amelia Dalton

October 18, 2013

Get out your graphing calculator, an abacus, and a hand or two – we’re counting sensors. In this week’s Fish Fry, we chat with Janusz Bryzek about the 2013 TSensors Summit for Trillion Sensors Roadmap. We’ll tell you how this summit started and what exciting stuff you’ll learn by attending. Also, we announce the winner of last week’s nerdy giveaway (Starter Kit for PIC24F Intelligent Integrated Analog courtesy of Microchip technology) and we give everyone the chance to win a copy of the book “FRAM for … Read More → "One Trillion and Counting"

Looking Forward to a Smarter Life

Take the Smarter Life Challenge

by Amelia Dalton

October 11, 2013

Hold on tight, ladies and gentlemen, as Fish Fry gazes into to the future of our “smart lives” with Dianne Kibbey, Global Head of Community and the organizer of the Smarter Life Challenge at Newark element14. We’ll give you the details of the Smarter Life Challenge, let you know how you can enter, and tell you what you can win. Also this week, our EDA crystal ball shows us an exciting vision of a day when timing closure isn’t such a huge pain in the neck.

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Cadence Gets Their Funny On

Unhinged with Brian Fuller

by Amelia Dalton

October 4, 2013

Who said electronic engineering can’t be funny? (Someone who has never read this publication!) In this week’s Fish Fry, we check out a brand new online television show that that aims to bring the saucy style of late night television talk shows to our engineering community. My guest is Brian Fuller of Cadence Design Systems, and we chat about why Cadence decided to make a humorous engineering-based talk show and how they are going about the business of making EE fun.

This week we unravel the mystery of choosing the … Read More → "Cadence Gets Their Funny On"

One MEMS at a Time

2013 MEMS Executive Congress Preview

by Amelia Dalton

September 27, 2013

This week, Fish Fry has MEMS on the brain. Our guest is none other than MEMS powerhouse Karen Lightman. In an exclusive 2013 MEMS Executive Congress preview, Karen and I chat about what exciting technologies will be discussed at this year’s event and how you can get your MEMS-enabled design in front of a special audience of executives from around the world. Also this week, we check out the newest in battery management techniques and investigate why your next battery-powered device design could benefit from a little battery monitoring.

This week’s … Read More → "One MEMS at a Time"

Analog’s Smarty Pants

Microchip's Intelligent Analog

by Amelia Dalton

September 20, 2013

This week we’re talking about analog. Not just any analog – intelligent analog. No, it’s not a myth (like monster cable) or a legend (like green magic marker making your CDs sound better) — it’s real and its coming to a work bench or lab near you. We chat with Jason Tollefson from Microchip about Microchip’s new analog system-on-chip MCU family that might just have the smarts you need for your next design.

Also this week, we check out how you can utilize Tabula’s Spacetime architecture for your next super … Read More → "Analog’s Smarty Pants"