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Embedded Executive: What’s New in Wi-Fi, Infineon
Embedded Executive Podcast - July 10, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIs Wi-Fi even a thing anymore? What I mean by that is, at least from the users’ perspective, Wi-Fi just works, and that’s not much to think about. However, behind the scenes, a lot has to happen to make that “ubiquitousness” happen. To get a better understanding of what is happening back there, ...
Embedded Executive: A 40-Year Battery? with Tadiran
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 26, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCan batteries last for 40 years? And what is the application that would require such a timeline? That’s the discussion I had with Sol Jacobs, the Vice President and General Manager of Tadiran Batteries. The topic arose after the company’s recent whitepaper crossed my desk. To understand whet...
Embedded Executive: Sensors Are Exploding in Number, Requiring Lots More Energy - Infineon
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 19, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy would you put sensors and power components into the same business unit if you’re a component supplier? That’s what I asked Adam White, President, of Infineon’s Power and Sensors Division. After hearing his response, it made perfect sense—today’s sensors are quickly growing in number and po...
Embedded Executive: Memory For the Car Is Different, Micron
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 12, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMemory for automotive applications needs to be different from memory that’s intended for other applications. Why is that? I could not answer that question, so I turned to Michael Basca, the Vice President of Embedded Products and Systems within Micron’s Embedded Business Unit. As you might expec...
Embedded Executive: The Uncrashable Car, Indie Semiconductor
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 05, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIs it possible to develop a car that would never crash? We’re talking about a physical crash, not a software crash. According to Chet Babla, Indie Semiconductor’s Senior Vice President, it is. Being a non-believer, I had Chet as my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. Chet walked me...
Embedded Executive: Going All In on Generative AI, Synopsys
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 29, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSynopsys is all in on generative AI, and it’s putting its money where its mouth is by creating a Center for Generative AI within the company. Being that I had no idea what this meant, how it would work, or what it would mean to the industry, I invited the Center’s Executive Director, Stelios Dia...
Embedded Executive: A Raspberry Pi Really Can Be Secure, Zymbit
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 22, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUnderstatement: Raspberry Pi is popular with the embedded community. Myth: Raspberry Pi is not a secure platform. I believed in that myth until a recent conversation with Alex Kaay, the CTO and co-founder of Zymbit. The beauty of the Pi is in its simplicity, but don’t equate simplicity with un...
Embedded Executive: Choosing a Medium For Smart Metering with the Wi-SUN Alliance
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 15, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne area of technology that many vendors and technologies are gunning for is smart metering, whether commercial or residential electric meters, water meters, or something else. The number of potential meters is HUGE. But which technology makes the most sense for this application? As you might e...
Embedded Executive: What You Can Do With Medical Wearables, Analog Devices (ADI)
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 08, 2024 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMedical wearables can greatly enhance the quality of life for many people. This can be done by instantly accessing medical information and potentially alerting a professional, or simply tracking stats on an individual. According to Andrew Burt, the Director of Product Line Management of Digita...
Embedded Executive: AI Effects All Subsystems Including Memory, with Micron
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 01, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this era of AI, designers have to think differently about every aspect of their projects. That includes the memory subsystem. To that end, Micron had a series of announcements to help facilitate AI, particularly on mobile devices. But beyond each subsystem, there’s just so much that needs to ...
Pre-Compliance Testing is a Must: Embedded Executive, Rohde & Schwarz
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPre-compliance testing is a phenomenon that should be a no-brainer, but for lots of reasons—none of them good—it’s not always done. When you’re doing a design that requires RF and you don’t do the testing, you’re really asking for trouble. That goes double for a product that’s going to ship into...
Embedded Executive: Looking For a Job? Focus on Your Writing, Webster & Webster
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 17, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEngineers are usually good at engineering, but writing? That’s a different story. In many cases, lacking the ability to write well can hurt engineers. This rears its ugly head when these engineers are job hunting. Having mis-spellings and bad grammar on a resume is a huge red flag. This is parti...
Embedded Executive: Proprietary Vs. Open AI Ecosystems, Infineon
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 10, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAI MCU vendors have mostly been putting themselves into two camps when it comes to the ecosystem. On one side, the vendor is providing everything themselves. In the other camp, the vendor is relying on partners and the community at large to provide the ecosystem. I recently spoke to Steve Tateos...
Embedded Executive: Partnerships Can Simplify Complex AI Designs, with Renesas and EdgeCortix
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 03, 2024 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn a rare move, I had two guests join me for this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, but for a good reason. I was joined by Mohammed Dogar, Vice President and Head of Global Business Development and Ecosystem at Renesas Electronics, and Sakya Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix. I asked th...
Embedded Executive: An Embedded Developer’s Challenges May Not Be What You Think, The Embedded Kit
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 27, 2024 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Embedded Kit recently conducted a survey to understand the biggest challenges facing an embedded developer. You would think those challenges are obvious, and some of them are, but the survey uncovered some fairly interesting areas that are not so obvious. If you’re interested in finding out ...
Embedded Executive: Understand The Accuracy Required in Semiconductor Manufacturing with Heidenhain
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 20, 2024 15:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDo you understand the metrology that applies to semiconductor manufacturing? I know I certainly didn’t, and found out how little I knew about this essential technology when I spoke to David Doyle, the President and Managing Director of Heidenhain Corp. While mostly applying to semiconductors, ...
Embedded Executive: How, Where, and Why LoRaWAN is Penetrating Our Communities, LoRa Alliance
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 13, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe LoRa Alliance recently conducted a user study to see how far LoRaWAN technology has penetrated into the community. If you’re not familiar, LoRaWAN is a low-power wide-area network that has a range that can be measured in miles. I wanted to understand what the results of the user study showe...
Embedded Executive: SOMs or COMs. Same? Different? Yes and No, Samtec
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 06, 2024 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAre SOMs and COMs the same thing? Some people would say yes, but in reality, they are not. So, what’s the difference. To get a better understanding of the matter, I spoke to Matthew Burns, a Global Director at Samtec on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. The second part of this discussion ...
Embedded Executive: Isolators Without A Power Supply, Infineon
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 28, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHave you ever heard of an isolator without a power supply? I hadn’t either, until now, sort of. That’s not exactly what Infineon is launching, but it’s close enough that I needed to have a conversation with Daniel Callen, Infineon’s Sr. Manager in the Power IC Group to understand exactly what th...
Embedded Executive: MEMS-based Speakers are Possible, xMEMS Labs
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 21, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMEMS have been used in lots of sensors and even in microphones. But, until now, I hadn’t seen them used in speakers. xMEMS Labs is one vendor that’s doing just that, and the sound is incredible. When you hear how it works, it really makes a lot of sense. And if you listen to this podcast, you wi...
Embedded Executive: Big Steps for the Z-Wave Alliance
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 14, 2024 18:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to the Z-Wave Alliance, a newly formed standards development organization. The new Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Z-Wave Alliance is Avi Rosenthal, whose day job is the Managing Partner of bluesalve partners. I know Z Wave has been around f...
Embedded Executive: Customize Your COM Express Design, Sealevel Systems
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 07, 2024 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCOM Express has been around for at least a decade. While many people think of it as a standard architecture (it is), it can be customized in lots of different ways. To understand how a standard can be made custom while remaining standard, I spoke to Earle Foster, a Senior Vice President, Sealeve...
Embedded Executive: ThreadX Is Now Open Source, Eclipse Foundation
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 31, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA few years ago, Microsoft acquired Express Logic, who’s key product was the ThreadX operating system. Fast forward to today, and Microsoft has released that operating system to the open-source community. Why did they do that? And what does that mean to the development community? I was really cu...
Embedded Executive: We’ve Moved Past the GaN Starting Gate, TI
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 24, 2024 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe appear to be over the hump between hype and reality when it comes to GaN technology. Components and end products are readily available. But according to David Snook, the product line manager for GaN products at Texas Instruments (TI), we are just scratching the surface of where GaN’s potenti...
Embedded Executive: Timing is Everything, But You Probably Weren’t Aware of That, SiTime
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 17, 2024 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTiming devices within embedded systems are likely the most important components that you don’t know anything about. That’s a paraphrase from Piyush Sevalia, a Vice President at SiTime, and it’s certainly very true. When you get into 5G applications, the effects are often working against you, l...
Embedded Executive: What’s Real and What’s Hype in EVs, Wind River
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 10, 2024 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI feel like we have been two years away from fully autonomous vehicles for the last five years. It gets difficult to differentiate between what’s accurate and what’s fiction. To try to get at the truth, I spoke to Avijit Sinha, the newly appointed President of Wind River for this week’s Embedded...
Embedded Executive: Go Way Past Prototyping With Raspberry Pi
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 03, 2024 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAre you familiar with Raspberry Pi? Of course you are. But are you aware of all the things that you can do with it, or should do with it? First, if you think it’s a low-compute-power board, you are mistaken. Second, if you think you can’t go to production with a Pi, you’d be mistaken again. I...
Embedded Executive: Go Way Passed Prototyping With Raspberry Pi
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 03, 2024 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAre you familiar with Raspberry Pi? Of course you are. But are you aware of all the things that you can do with it, or should do with it? First, if you think it’s a low-compute-power board, you are mistaken. Second, if you think you can’t go to production with a Pi, you’d be mistaken again. I...
Embedded Executive: Busting Memory Myths, Microchip
Embedded Executive Podcast - December 20, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMemory is typically a very simple component in your embedded system—or is it? I spent some time with Barry Blixt, a Director for Microchip’s memory business. We went through a list of typical memory “myths” to determine what’s true and what’s not true. Does memory wear out? How about rotating me...
Embedded Executive: We Need People Who Can Write Quality Firmware, USA Firmware
Embedded Executive Podcast - December 13, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen it comes to writing code, we have a manpower problem. While that’s true for most aspects of the embedded engineering/development space, it’s particularly true for those folks writing firmware, which is one of the most critical, yet least glamorous parts of our profession. What’s the solutio...
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