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Embedded Executive: Semtech, An Acquisition Shakes Up the Embedded Space
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 10, 2023 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSemtech recently acquired Sierra Wireless. That’s a pretty big acquisition. To understand why it is was done and what it means to an embedded developer, I spoke to Pravin Desale, the Senior Vice President of IoT Engineering at Semtech on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. There are obvious...
Embedded Executive: Enclustra, Designing with FPGAs Can Be Complicated.
Embedded Executive Podcast - May 03, 2023 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe FPGA vendors would have you believe that designing with their components is a piece of cake. Connect a few dots here and there, and presto, your chip is ready to go. But we all know that’s not really the case. To understand what’s really involved, and whether this something a novice should b...
Embedded Executive: Sandeep Krishnegowda, Vice President of Marketing and Applications for Memory, Infineon Technologies
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 26, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEvery application obviously needs some form of memory, and since every application is somewhat different, you’d expect most applications to have a dedicated memory type. That thinking would not be wrong. To that end, Infineon has worked with some other industry giants to develop a new memory typ...
Embedded Executive: Bob Yang, Executive Director for Business Development, Taifang Technology
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 18, 2023 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIf you’re looking to sense vibrations, check out Taifang Technology and its elastic-wave technology. They are sensing vibrations that are so small you can’t really receive them any other way. For example, if the sensor is embedded into a automobile, it can detect immediately, within 10 ms, when ...
Embedded Executive: Tom Ricoy, Cigent
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 11, 2023 18:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMost security prevention methods aim at detecting when a hack is occurring. Hence, term detection-based security. By embedded your cyber-security inside your memory subsystem, you make it prevention-based, essentially stopping the attack before it occurs. To be honest, I did not understand what ...
Embedded Executive: Peter Friedrichs, VP of SiC, Infineon Technologies
Embedded Executive Podcast - April 05, 2023 18:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWith the voltage levels for GaN power semiconductors moving up and the levels for SiC moving down, we have an overlap, where either type of device would be suitable for the job. So which should you choose? In addition, if you’re designing an end product, how comfortable are you, knowing that...
Embedded Executive: Steve Kennelly, Associate Director, Microchip Technology
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 29, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere we go again; 8-bit MCUs are not dead yet. I said a few years ago that I’d give this argument up, and simply wait for the official announcement, but apparently, I shouldn’t hold my breath. Who better to know if 8-bit MCUs are shipping in big (really big) volumes, but Microchip. Hence, I had ...
Ashok Lahiri, Company Advisor & Co-Founder, Enovix
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 22, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEnovix is a battery company that designs, manufactures, and sells batteries with a three-dimensional cell architecture that increases energy density and maintains high cycle life. The targets for these cells could be any type of mobile device. Ashok Lahiri, Enovix’s Advisor and Co-Founder, gav...
Embedded Executive: Scott McNeese, Director of Voice and Audio, ArkX Labs
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 15, 2023 15:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFar-field voice is something that’s hard to decipher, mostly because it’s far. I know that’s overly simplistic, but it’s true. For a much better explanation of this and a detailed description on how it works, I spoke to Scott McNeese, the Director of Voice and Audio for ArkX Labs, on this week’s...
Road to embedded world: Chairman of embedded world Conference, Axel Sikora
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 10, 2023 23:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 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 t...
Embedded Executive: Sivaram Trikutam, Vice President, Wi-Fi Product Line, Infineon Technologies
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 08, 2023 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInfineon has partnered with a bunch of folks to simplify the lives of system developers, specifically those who want to integrate Bluetooth. Those partners include module vendors and software providers. To understand what this means, I spoke to Sivaram Trikutam, the Vice President of Infineon’s ...
Embedded Executive: Donna Moore, Chairwoman, LoRa Alliance
Embedded Executive Podcast - March 01, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that represents the LoRaWAN standard. LoRa is growing quickly and expanding into a host of both new geographies and new applications. To see where its headed and why it’s been so successful, I spoke to the Alliance’s Chairwoman, Donna Moore, on...
Embedded Executive: Stan Schneider, CEO, RTI
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 22, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFive years ago, the experts said that autonomous-drive vehicles were five years out. Now, five years later, they still appear to be five years out? Why is that? To try to get to the bottom of the issue, I spoke to someone who knows far more about the technology than me, Stan Schneider, the CEO o...
Embedded Executive: Simon Keeton, EVP/GM, Power Solutions Group, onsemi
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 15, 2023 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSilicon Carbide (SiC) is a hot technology. The topic/technology seems to be coming up more and more. I was curious as to why that was the case, so I spoke to someone who is an expert on the subject for this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. That expert is Simon Keeton, the EVP and GM of onsemi...
Embedded Executive: Vik Malyala, Managing Director and President, Supermicro
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 08, 2023 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIntel recently launched a new addition to its Sapphire Rapids scalable processor family. The addition delivers a performance boost, but as you might expect, it’s a whole lot more involved than that. To understand what the announcement means to the embedded developer, I chatted with Vik Malyala, ...
Embedded Executive: Bill Lamie, President and CEO, PX5
Embedded Executive Podcast - February 01, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIf you’ve been in the embedded space for any length of time, you’re likely familiar with the ThreadX real-time operating system, which was a product of Express Logic. That company was acquired by Microsoft, and it’s President, Bill Lamie, went along with the team to Microsoft…until now. Bill is ...
Embedded Executive: Paul Chawla, CEO, Eurotech
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 24, 2023 20:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSecurity, security, security. You’d think by now that the process for security would be so automated and automatic we wouldn’t be having these same discussions as to why designers are reluctant to design it in, or what applications really require it. Alas, here we are. To try, yet again, to und...
Embedded Executive: Paul Stager, Director of Engineering, EdgeQ
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 18, 2023 15:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating5G brings a lot of promise to the embedded space, in addition to many other spaces. This week’s Embedded Executives podcast guest knows far more about 5G than most people. Paul Stager, EdgeQ’s Director of Engineering, and I talked about when it’s coming, how it’ll be deployed, and what designers...
Firmware Matters, Way More Than You Think
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 12, 2023 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBob Scaccia, the President and CEO of USA Firmware, knows more about firmware than anyone I’ve ever come across. And speaking of firmware, it is an art that does not get nearly the attention it should, and for a long list of reasons. In this podcast, i'll go through those reasons and a lot more...
Embedded Executive: Peggy Carrieres, Global VP, Avnet
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 11, 2023 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe chip shortage is getting better. It’s getting worse. No, it’s getting better. These are the responses I continue to hear. To hopefully arrive at the truth, I went to someone in "the know", and that's Peggy Carrieres, Avnet’s Global Vice President of Sales Enablement and Supplier Development....
Embedded Executive: Ron Martino, EVP, Global Sales, NXP
Embedded Executive Podcast - January 05, 2023 01:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs an embedded developer, does a “common platform” reduce your ability to innovate? That’s a connect and a theory I discussed with Ron Martino, NXP’s Executive Vice President of Global Sales. NXP is offering such a strategy to its community, so I was curious to hear more about it, which I did on...
Embedded Executive: Anthony Le, Vice President, Macronix America
Embedded Executive Podcast - December 21, 2022 15:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMacronix is a memory vendor who claims to offer “memory-centric computing.” When I heard about this concept, I wondered if it was something real, or just marketing spin. To find out, I went to the source, Macronix and invited Anthony Le, Vice President at Macronix America, to be my guest on thi...
Embedded Executive: Bill Neifert, SVP, Partnerships, Corellium
Embedded Executive Podcast - December 14, 2022 15:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVirtual hardware modeling is not a new concept, but it’s now getting a new spin, particularly when you’re working with Arm-based IP cores. To understand what this means and how it can benefit an embedded developer, I spoke to Bill Neifert, the Senior Vice President of Partnerships at Corellium o...
Embedded Executive: Rupert Baines, CMO, Codasip
Embedded Executive Podcast - December 07, 2022 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCodasip just joined the OpenHW Group and assuming you’re familiar with that organization, you might wonder why they did that. But I didn’t want to assume, so we started this podcast by asking why people should even care about the OpenHW. My guest for this week’s Embedded Executives podcast was R...
Embedded Executive: John O'Hurley and Becky Wanta, Q5id
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 30, 2022 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere’s an Embedded Executive podcast you didn’t expect from me. This week’s guest is John O'Hurley, who you may know as J. Peterman from what was one of the popular television comedies ever, Seinfeld. John actually has a place in our embedded sphere, along with his business partner Becky Wanta w...
Embedded Executive: Thomas Prest, Lead Cryptographic Researcher, PQShield
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 23, 2022 15:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingQuantum cryptography is very much in the spotlight these days. But do you know why? For that matter, do you understand what it means? And most importantly, if you’re an embedded developer, should you be concerned about it? Those are the important questions that I got answers to when I spoke to T...
Embedded Executive: Mamta Gupta, Director, Lattice Semiconductor
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 15, 2022 22:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 5G standard seems to be working through the embedded industry at a snail’s pace when you compare it to other aspects of our technology sector. Why is that, and what do you do about it if you’re a design engineer? To try and get a handle on how to be compliant, yet stay at the leading edge, I...
Embedded Executive: Jack Ganssle, Internationally-Recognized Embedded Systems Expert
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 09, 2022 16:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJack Ganssle is one of the most recognizable people in the embedded systems industry, starting as an engineer and working his way through the ranks to be legitimately known as one of the world’s leading experts in the space. Jack took some time from his busy schedule to walk down memory lane and...
Embedded Executive: Skip Ashton, Distinguished Engineer, Infineon
Embedded Executive Podcast - November 02, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe ink is not yet dried on the Matter specification. Those in the know claim that this is one of the most important specifications to come across the electronics space in a long, long time, particularly for IoT devices makers. Are you in the know? One expert who is up to speed on all the speeds...
Embedded Executive: Fabio Violante, CEO, Arduino
Embedded Executive Podcast - October 26, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are few products more popular in the embedded space than the Arduino development board. What makes that statement even more interesting has to do with the number of dev boards that have become available over the last few years. Why is Arduino so important to the embedded development commun...
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