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Embedded Executive: The Ecosystem For AI Is Ready, Renesas
Embedded Executive Podcast - December 06, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen it comes to the ecosystem, particularly around AI, you need all the parts to be available if you want to develop a system. We know that ecosystems forever continue to evolve, but it’s safe to dive into the waters at this point, according to Mohammed Dogar, the Vice President and Head of Glo...
Embedded Executive: Wearable Medical Could Be 100M MCUs, Silicon Labs
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 29, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWearable medical devices are poised to take off. I mean, really take off, thanks to a few different drivers, such as the aging population, the pandemic, and some concessions from the insurance companies. Manufacturers are ready to make these devices available, in a huge way. Think hundreds of ...
Embedded Executive: Latest PSoC Simplifies Power Management, Infineon
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 15, 2023 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDevelopers struggle with how to manage the power in their end devices. There’s obviously a tradeoff between performance and how much/how long to keep components powered up. It’s obviously application-specific, but it’s important to make the right decision. With Infineon’s PSoC device, those deve...
Embedded Executive: While Embedded Technology Progresses Slowly, Security Moves Super-Fast, Infineon Technologies
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 08, 2023 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe talk about security a lot here at Embedded Computing Design. If it’s not the number one subject, it’s certainly in the top three. But the discussion I had with Thomas Rosteck, the Division President for Connected Secure Systems at Infineon Technologies went down a slightly different path, and...
Embedded Executive: We Have an Engineering Shortage
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 01, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe have an engineering shortage. Anyone who's familiar with our space wouldn't dispute that. And if you look at the projections, we’re going to need a whole lot more of us going forward. Why is that the case, and more importantly, what are we going to do about it? To try and understand this dil...
Embedded Executive: The CHIPS Act, Take II, PQSecure
Embedded Executive Podcast - October 25, 2023 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingQuantum computing raises the potential for anything to be hacked, and that includes government systems. Hence, the people behind the CHIPS Act want to make sure that the money that’s used for semiconductor development is being used in the areas that it deems most important. To understand how t...
Embedded Executive: Quantum Computing Is Here Today, Really. Oxford Ionics
Embedded Executive Podcast - October 18, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingQuantum computing can be a very complex area. Many experts will tell you that it could be as long as a decade before quantum computers actually appear on the scenes. This week’s Embedded Executives podcast guest says that his company is providing quantum computing today. Hear it directly from ...
Embedded Executive: 5G For Industrial? No Time Soon, Sequans
Embedded Executive Podcast - October 11, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIf you’re a consumer, 5G is likely in your universe. If you’re working on the industrial side, you’re likely not seeing 5G at all. And it may be many years before it’s even available in limited deployments. Why is that? That’s the question I asked of Olivier Pauzet, the EVP of Strategy for Sequa...
Embedded Executive: What Is STMicroelectronics Doing About Sustainability?
Embedded Executive Podcast - October 04, 2023 18:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSustainability continues to be a topic of interest. First, what does sustainability actually mean? Second, what are some of the industry giants doing about it? In our space, STMicroelectronics would be one of those giants, so I spoke to Mahesh Chowdhary, an STMicroelectronics Fellow and the Se...
Embedded Executive: Get Your AI Platform Out the Door, SparkCognition
Embedded Executive Podcast - September 27, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBringing all the different elements together for an AI-based hardware platform is harder than it sounds, especially when you start considering the environmental conditions. Getting it to work in the lab is one thing, but the real world presents challenges you may not have thought of. SparkCogni...
Embedded Executive: Let the Code Write Itself, JITX
Embedded Executive Podcast - September 20, 2023 19:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are better ways to write embedded code than the traditional methods. Doing it in a visual fashion is one of those ways. But how does that work, and how does it adapt specifically to my hardware? While you might have thought such technology was already available, Duncan Haldane, the CEO of ...
Embedded Executive: Why Aren’t There Enough Engineers? Arm
Embedded Executive Podcast - September 13, 2023 18:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt seems like more and more engineers are graduating from universities, yet we still need more. There are a few reasons for this. First, there’s simply a demand for hardware and software engineers as our devices become “electrified.” And second, the universities are doing a less than stellar j...
Embedded Executive: ESG: Fact or Fiction? Hear Avnet's Take
Embedded Executive Podcast - September 06, 2023 19:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingESG stands for environmental, social, and governance, and it’s something we are hearing a lot about lately. However, in my role as our industry’s devil’s advocate, I want to know if this is a real thing, or just a company line from some of the players in our industry. To try and vet that out, ...
Embedded Executive: Speech Recognition on an FPGA, Achronix
Embedded Executive Podcast - August 30, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeech recognition on an FPGA? That doesn’t sound like the most effective path, but Bill Jenkins, of Achronix had a different opinion. Hear his take on why the FPGA is the right way to go for this application on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.
Embedded Executive: Your Data Is Not Safe, Panther Labs
Embedded Executive Podcast - August 23, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe say all the time that any system can be hacked, and this week’s Embedded Executives podcast guest is someone who can get into your system. Ken Westin, CISO of Panther Labs, is who we'd call a white-hat hacker. He hacks for good reasons, sometimes to follow a bad hacker and return data, and ...
Embedded Executive: Develop AI Software For Any Hardware, Intel
Embedded Executive Podcast - August 16, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHaving a standard that everyone can design to makes markets take off. Open source, both hardware and software, is nothing new. But when paired with AI, it is relatively new. Intel is trying to provide that API for people to design to with its OneAPI initiative. Obviously, you can go that route...
Embedded Executive: Autonomous Farming Equipment, John Deere
Embedded Executive Podcast - August 09, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—John Deere is a technology leader that sells agriculture equipment, not the other way around. This week, I spoke to Maya Sripadam, a Senior Product Manager at Blue River Technology, a John Deere Company, about autonomous vehicle design. It’s not automobi...
Embedded Executive: Is GaN a Reliable Technology? Innoscience Europe
Embedded Executive Podcast - August 02, 2023 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGallium nitride technology has been in the news quite a lot over past couple of years. It’s being touted as a far superior alternative to some of the competing technologies, particularly those that are silicon-based. However, there’s been some buzz lately that GaN is not a reliable technology....
Embedded Executive: Biden Administration Announces Cyber Security Standard
Embedded Executive Podcast - July 26, 2023 15:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBig announcement from the Biden administration—the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark. In its simplest form, it’s a logo/sticker that goes onto any compliant IoT device. In its most complex form, designers need to understand what this standard is all about. Hence, Steve Hanna, a Distinguished Engineer at Inf...
Embedded Executive: AI Is Not the Endgame, Ambarella
Embedded Executive Podcast - July 19, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAI is here and it’s everywhere. However, AI is not the end game. AI is used to reach the end game, whatever that happens to be. That’s somewhat of a paradigm shift for today’s design community who appear to be developing for the application of AI, when there really isn’t one. To confirm my thoug...
Embedded Executive: CXL, the Latest High-Speed Interconnect
Embedded Executive Podcast - July 12, 2023 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCompute Express Link, aka CXL, is a low-latency, cache-coherent interconnect that connects processors, memory, and other accelerator devices. It’s built on top of PCI Express. Over the past couple of years, it’s been emerging as the winner in the interface wars. If you are not familiar with this...
Embedded Executive: Energy Harvesting, Atmosic
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 28, 2023 17:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEnergy harvesting has been with us for quite some time, but it has not achieved the lofty goals that industry insiders predicted. However, it’s still making inroads into applications that make the most sense. To understand what those applications are and how it should work, I spoke to Paul Davis...
Embedded Executive: Storage Without a Storage Box, StorPool
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 21, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSoftware-defined storage is a relatively new technology. It does the same job as the large storage box, but without the large storage box. Huh? Yup, that’s right. It didn’t make sense to me at first either, but I went to an expert, Boyan Krosnov, the CTO and co-founder of StorPool, to get an exp...
Embedded Executive: Explosive Growth in Cloud-based AI, Unisys
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 13, 2023 18:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe talk a lot here about Edge-based AI and all the things that it can accomplish. But that leaves out a significant portion of the market, that being Cloud-based AI and machine learning. According to one expert, Christina Mongan, the Director of Emerging Technologies on the Innovation Ecosystem...
Embedded Executive: Explosive Growth in Cloud-based AI, Unisys
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 13, 2023 18:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe talk a lot here about Edge-based AI and all the things that it can accomplish. But that leaves out a significant portion of the market, that being Cloud-based AI and machine learning. According to one expert, Christina Mongan, the Director of Emerging Technologies on the Innovation Ecosystem...
Embedded Executive Podcast: Is the Gov Killing the Embedded Industry? IntervalZero
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 07, 2023 19:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA few years ago, businesses reaped big benefits from federal tax cuts. However, that money needed to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out exactly how the Fed expected, and it’s putting the clamps on some of the smaller companies in our engineering space. To understand exactly w...
Embedded Executive: Is the Gov Killing the Embedded Industry? IntervalZero
Embedded Executive Podcast - June 07, 2023 19:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA few years ago, businesses reaped big benefits from federal tax cuts. However, that money needed to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out exactly how the Fed expected, and it’s putting the clamps on some of the smaller companies in our engineering space. To understand exactly w...
Embedded Executive: Is SiC Dead? Navitas Semiconductor
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 31, 2023 15:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFast-charging an end device like a smart phone in under 10 minutes using Gallium Nitride (GaN) power components is awesome. However, it’s not as great as it sounds, for a few reasons. First, if you don’t have the latest and greatest battery technology, you may be doing damage to your battery. In...
Embedded Executive: All DRAMs Are Not Created Equally, Apacer
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 24, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDRAM is DRAM, right? There’s no difference from manufacturer to manufacturer. If that’s your take, you’ll likely find yourself in trouble when it comes to your design’s memory subsystem. As Frank Henville, a Technical Manager at Apacer, told me during this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, the...
Embedded Executive: Digital RF, Qualinx B.V.
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 16, 2023 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDigital RF is something you don’t hear a lot about, but it is being deployed in some of our embedded systems, including those that live at the Edge of the IoT. But, is it really digital? The technology can be somewhat confusing, so to get to the heart of the matter, I spoke with Massoud Tohidian...
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