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Design West 2012 Part Two

In this week’s Fish Fry, I look into two ever-present themes at this year’s Design West Expo: power and software. On the software side, I interview David Kleidermacher (Green Hills Software – CTO) about embedded security, virtualization, and even Green Hills’s collaboration with Nintendo. On the power side, I chat with Infinite Power Solutions about energy harvesting and find out why they don’t call themselves “Limited Power Solutions”.

I have one more MAX V CPLD Development Kit courtesy of Altera to give away this week, but you’ll have to listen to find out how to win. 

 

Watch Previous Fish Frys

Fish Fry Links – April 6, 2012

More Information about Green Hills

Green Hills Software Achieves More Processor Performance Records

Buy David Kleidermacher’s Book: Embedded Systems Security: Practical Methods for Safe and Secure Software and Systems Development

More Information about Infinite Power Solutions

Infinite Power Solutions Demonstrates Unique Solid-State Embedded Power Solutions At Design West – Embedded Systems Conference

Last Week’s Fish Fry – Design West 2012 Shakedown

More information about Altera’s MAX V CPLD Development Kit

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

John Bruggeman, Former CMO – Cadence Design Systems

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

Lauro Rizzatti, Vice President of Marketing, EVE

Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems

Kapil Shankar, CEO – SiliconBlue

Andy Pease, CEO – QuickLogic

Rajeev Madhavan, CEO – Magma 

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys


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