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June 26, 2020

Running the Long Game: New RISC-V Based SoCs and Using Technosignatures to Find Alien Life

by Amelia Dalton

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a RISC-V Fish Fry! In this week’s podcast, we first investigate how the search for alien life just got a lot more interesting with the help of a unique grant from NASA, the SETI institute, and a team of esteemed researchers from across the United States. We take a closer look at the details of this new research project and how it is hoping to find signs of alien life on distant exoplanets using technosignatures. Also this week, Sammy Cheung (CEO – Efinix) joins us to discuss how Efinix is blending the worlds of RISC-V and reconfigurable computing and the details of  their new family of software-defined SoCs based on the RISC-V core.

 

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Links for June 26, 2020

Does intelligent life exist on other planets? Technosignatures may hold new clues (Rochester Newscenter)

CfA Scientists Collaborate on New Study to Search the Universe for Signs of Technological Civilizations

More information about the SETI Institute

More information about Efinix

Efinix® Announces Availability of Three RISC-V® SoCs

 

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys

Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software

Robert Blake, CEO – Achronix

Jack Harding, CEO – eSilicon

Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific

Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies

Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas

Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions

Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices

Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter

Mark Papermaster, CTO – AMD

David Fried, CTO – Coventor

Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell

David Dutton, CEO – Silvaco

Bob Niemiec, CEO – TwistThink

Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies

Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT

Dan Fox, CTO – Local Motors

Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix

Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP

Alan Grau, CEO — Icon Labs

Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic

Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless

Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro

Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly

Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA

Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA

Xin Song, CEO – Bottos

Chris Dries, CEO – UnitedSiC 

Bob Smith, Executive Director – ESD Alliance 

Rick O’Connor, Executive Director – RISC V Foundation

Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve

Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies

Jun Pei, CEO – Cepton Technologies

Nikos Zervas, CEO – CAST

Dave Hughes, CEO – HCC Embedded

David Su, CEO – Atomic Technologies

Jess Isquith, President/CEO – PICMG

Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer and Managing Director, Microsoft Azure Sphere – Microsoft 

Vinay Gokhale, VP Business Development – ThirdWayv

Kevin Hannah, Director of Product Operations- Kazuhm

Srinath Anantharaman, CEO – ClioSoft

Gajinder Panesar, CTO  – UltraSoC and Tim Ramsdale, CEO – Agile Analog

Steve Cammish, VP of Edge Solutions – ADLINK

Adam Benzion, Co-Founder, Hackster.io

 

 

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