Embedded Executive Podcast
275 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEach week, Embedded Computing Design’s EVP Rich Nass speaks to an executive in the embedded industry to understand what’s happening with the latest products, standards, and trends. The frank discussions reveal the real, behind the scenes issues, so the design community knows what’s coming down the pike. Topics covered in artificial intelligence, machine learning, embedded systems, internet of things, industrial automation, automotive applications, open source and more.
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Embedded Executive: Dr. Phil Lessner, Senior VP and CTO, KEMET
November 06, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 3.61 MBThe power that’s required to charge electric vehicles is quite high. And when you add wireless charging, the issues grow significantly. But what exactly are those electric vehicle charging issues, and how do we solve them? And why are people afraid to charge their batteries to 199 percent? That’s just the beginning of the discussion I had with Dr. Phil Lessner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for KEMET in this week’s Embedded Executive interview.
Embedded Executive: Michael Duhamel, Vice President, SECO USA
October 30, 2019 17:00 - 7 minutes - 3.26 MBHigh-performance computing has a lot to do with complex calculations performed in parallel. However, in the embedded space, it has different, and potentially more challenging, definitions. To understand where high-performance computing fits in the industrial IoT sector, I spent this week's Embedded Executives podcast with Michael Duhamel, Vice President at SECO.
Embedded Executive: Michael Duhamel, Vice President, SECO
October 30, 2019 17:00 - 7 minutes - 3.26 MBHigh-performance computing has a lot to do with complex calculations performed in parallel. However, in the embedded space, it has different, and potentially more challenging, definitions. To understand where high-performance computing fits in the industrial IoT sector, I spent this week's Embedded Executives podcast with Michael Duhamel, Vice President at SECO.
Embedded Executive: Andrew Longhurst, Managing Director, Wittenstein High Integrity Systems
October 22, 2019 21:00 - 6 minutes - 4.22 MBThe semiconductor content in today’s (and tomorrow’s) automobiles continues to grow. That’s a good thing for lots of people. Unfortunately, that list includes the bad guys, as more end points appear in the vehicle, more entry points become vulnerable to hackers. The question I posed to this week’s Embedded Executive, Andrew Longhurst, Managing Director, Wittenstein High Integrity Systems, is simply, “what do we do about that?” Tune in to find out.
Embedded Executive: David Dwelley, VP, CTO, Maxim Integrated
October 15, 2019 22:00 - 6 minutes - 3.18 MBMany people claim that analog is a dying technology. While I’m not in that camp, I want to get to the bottom of the discussion. Hence, I posed the topic to David Dwelley, a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Maxim Integrated. David has a birds-eye view on state-of-the-art analog design. Tune in to hear his response.
Embedded Executive: Dave Hughes, CEO, HCC Embedded
October 09, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes - 3.74 MBOpen source is no longer a fad or something for Makers. As Dave Hughes, the Founder and CEO of HCC Embedded says, “it is now a force in our industry.” If you’re not on the bus, it’s time to get on. To hear everything else Dave had to say about open-source software, check out this week’s Embedded Executive podcast.
Embedded Executive: Tom Yates, VP, Nubix
October 02, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 3.33 MBAnalytics is the key to having a successful IoT platform, particularly in the industrial space. However, analytics doesn’t seem to have the focus in the development community that it should. Why is that so? That’s what I asked Tom Yates, Vice President of Products at Nubix, who deals with this topic on a daily basis. Tune in for more.
Embedded Executive: Larry Blackledge, GM, Qorvo
September 25, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 3.67 MBWe seem to be on a never-ending ride to reduce power. It seems like whatever the IC vendors can provide, the OEMs want more (or in this case, less). Is that fair? Maybe. Will the cycle continue down a similar path? Probably, but to know for sure, I interviewed Larry Blackledge, General Manager of Qorvo's Programmable Power Management business to see how low we can go. Tune in for more.
Embedded Executive: Sylvia Lu, u-blox
September 19, 2019 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.59 MB5G is coming. 5G is here. 5G is the greatest thing since sliced bread. There is so much information and misinformation regarding 5G that I thought it made sense to bring on an expert who could debunk some of the myths around 5G. In this week’s Embedded Executive interview, I spoke with Sylvia Lu, who is the Senior 5G Technical Lead for 5G at u-blox, as well as a member of the UK5G Advisory Board. Tune in for more.
Five Minutes With…Yunsup Lee, CTO, SiFive
September 04, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 2.84 MBYunsup Lee was part of the RISC-V movement from the ground floor. He was one of the original authors of the spec right from Day 1. Currently, Lee is the CTO of SiFive, one of the leaders in terms of RISC-V IP. But this Five Minutes With…discussion revolves around the Chips Alliance, where Lee is a Board Member. The Alliance has a goal of developing open-source hardware, which dovetails perfectly with the motivation behind RISC-V. Tune in for more.
Five Minutes With…Cliff Ortmeyer, Newark
August 28, 2019 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.61 MBIoT is evolving. We’ve added components like AI and machine learning, more complex Edge nodes, and so on. Hence, I thought the time was right to speak to someone in the cat bird’s seat about what designers can expect in the IoT space over the next few years. That “someone” was Cliff Ortmeyer, Head of Technical Marketing, Newark, who was my guest on this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Five Minutes With…Lawrence Romine, VP, Altium
August 07, 2019 15:00 - 8 minutes - 6.08 MBEngineers have been designing PCBs for a long time. As components get smaller and more integrated, and a frequencies increase, the complexities increase exponentially. The tools are generally keeping pace, but that doesn’t make them any easier to use. In this week’s Five Minutes With…podcast, I spoke to Lawrence Romine, a vice president of Altium, one of the leaders in PCB design. We also chatted briefly about the company’s annual conference, Altium Live, that teaches designers the ins and o...
Five Minutes With…Joe Speed, Field CTO, ADLINK and Mohamed Elwazer, CEO, linedanceAI
July 31, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes - 6.12 MBWhen you can use your “powers” for the good of society, that’s a great thing. I came across a story that described a bus for handicapped people that took advantage of AI technology. It’s really cool; so cool in fact, that it requires two guests on my weekly Five Minutes With…podcast, the first time we’ve ever done that. Check out my discussion with Joe Speed, Field CTO of ADLINK’s IoT Solutions & Technology Group and Mohamed Elwazer, Technical Founder & CEO of linedanceAI.
Five Minutes With…Arpit Joshipura, GM, Linux Foundation
July 24, 2019 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.08 MBThere’s a lot going on at the Linux Foundation, including the announcement that we discussed last week that had to do with new features and ecosystem partners joining the open-source software and tools fray with LF Edge. So it seemed appropriate to take a deeper dive into the Foundation, which is what I did with Arpit Joshipura, the General Manager for Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Five Minutes With…Jason Shepherd, Member, LF Edge Governing Board
July 17, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.61 MBLF Edge is an umbrella organization operating within the Linux Foundation. The group recently made an important announcement around open-source software and tools. The announcement has to do with a new release that adds a lot of new features and new ecosystem partners joining the fray. The bottom line is that the technology is now ready for prime time. To get more detail, check out this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion with Jason Shepherd, a member of the LF Edge Governing Board and also ...
Five Minutes With…Ed Chao, CEO, Polte
July 10, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.43 MBIf you use cellular for your positioning and 5G is finally coming, you’re likely in a good position. To determine whether that’s actually the case, I spoke to Ed Chao, the CEO of Polte in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion. Ed explained how and why that is the case, using lots of easy-to-digest examples.
Five Minutes With…Kailash Narayanan, VP/GM, Keysight
June 28, 2019 00:00 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MB5G is going to revolutionize the world. Well, maybe it’ll revolutionize how we handle communications. However, it needs to be rolled out. Is that ever going to happen? Probably, but when? That’s where I started in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion with Kailash Narayanan, a Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Devices Segment at Keysight Technologies.
Five Minutes With…Alan Grau, VP of IoT, Sectigo
June 19, 2019 15:00 - 5 minutes - 3.88 MBEmbedded developers need to protect their systems after they are deployed. That’s not always easy to do, as you sometimes don’t know exactly where deployment is taking place. So, what to do? That’s the question I asked of Alan Grau, the Vice President of IoT and Embedded Solutions for Sectigo in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Five Minutes With…Kai Wang, Director, NexCOBOT
June 12, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 3.01 MBIndustrial robots have been used for automotive assembly for quite some time. Now, they are expanding their use into just about any industrial application you can think of, and they’ll be including the use of AI in those robots. Where does the AI come in and how does it work? Those are the first questions I asked Kai Wang, a Director on NexCOBOT’s Robot and Automation team in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Five Minutes With…Ricardo Margalho, CEO, Stratio Automotive
June 05, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 3.59 MBMachine learning isn’t yet mainstream, but it’s getting there. One example of that is how it’s affecting the automotive space. To understand how that works, I invited Ricardo Margalho, the Co-founder and CEO of Stratio Automotive, to join me in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion. How they handle that technology is quite interesting and it’s easy to see how it can evolve and expand. Tune in for more.
Five Minutes With…Kate Stewart, Senior Director, Linux Foundation
May 29, 2019 21:00 - 8 minutes - 3.86 MBZephyr is an open-source operating system that’s designed for applications where Linux is simply too big, from a space or power perspective. Is Zephyr right for your application? How would you even know? And if it is, where do you start? These are just some of the questions I threw at Kate Stewart, a Senior Director of Strategic Programs for the Linux Foundation, the governing body of Zephyr in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Five Minutes With… Zvonimir Bandic, Chairman, Chips Alliance
May 22, 2019 15:00 - 7 minutes - 3.28 MBZvonimir Bandic wears lots of hats. He is the Senior Director of Hardware Platforms for Western Digital; he’s a Member of the Board of Directors for the RISC-V Foundation, and he’s the Chairman of the Chips Alliance. It’s that latter capacity that we discussed in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion. The organization focuses on things like open source hardware, software tools, RTL development, and related topics. They will be holding their inaugural workshop in just a few weeks, so it wa...
Five Minutes With…Yang Zhao, CEO, ACEINNA
May 15, 2019 15:00 - 5 minutes - 2.76 MBWe now have the capability to implement super-specific GPS, far more accurate than what we’re accustomed to today. But do we really need to know exactly where we are, within centimeters, or is the current technology good enough? And assuming you picked the former, how do you actually do that? Those are just some of the questions I asked of Yang Zhao, the CEO of ACEINNA, in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Five Minutes With…Calista Redmond, CEO, RISC-V
May 07, 2019 20:00 - 10 minutes - 4.71 MBRISC-V is the new instruction-set architecture that people can use to design microprocessors. Calista Redmond is the newly appointed CEO of the RISC-V Foundation, the group that manages the spec and is putting on seminars and conferences around the world. In this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion, I asked Calista about her plans for the organization, which potentially plays a large role in our industry moving forward.
Five Minutes With…Mike Milinkovich, Exec. Dir., Eclipse Foundation
May 01, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 3.49 MBThere seems to be a foundation/association for just about everything in our space these days. Are such institutions necessary? Do they wear out their usefulness? I asked that question of Mike Milinkovich, the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. Of course, he defended his group, but his reasoning was quite interesting. Check out this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.