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October 13, 2017

Warning: This week’s Fish Fry may keep you up at night. We survey some of the scary security challenges facing us in the coming age of quantum computing. SecureRF CEO and President Louis Parks joins us to discuss a wide range of IoT security-related issues including endpoint authentication and identification, quantum resistance, and data accumulation. Also this week, we take a closer look at the world’s first live demonstration of a video call powered and encrypted using quantum technology.

The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth

Fish Fry Takes on the 2017 World Maker Faire

by Amelia Dalton

October 6, 2017

Right this way, ladies and gentlemen, right this way! We’ve got a big top filled with delights from this year’s Maker Faire in New York City. In our first interview, Fish Fry special correspondent Larra Morris chats with high school student Sam Zeloof about the semiconductor fab that he built in his own home. Next, Larra investigates how Wi-Fi enabled sandals could save the world from nefarious hackers. To wrap things up, Larra checks out the world’s first self-driving kayak.

Smarter Homes with Siri

Cypress’ WICED Studio Gets iCloud Support for IoT Development

by Amelia Dalton

September 29, 2017

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we head into the heart of the IoT ecosystem: the smart home. Brian Bedrosian from Cypress Semiconductor joins us to discuss some of the details of the WICED (Wireless Connectivity for Embedded Devices) Studio platform. We chat about the addition of iCloud remote access to the WICED platform and all the cool stuff that access enables you to do. Also this week, we check out a new kickstarter campaign that hopes to launch the world’s … Read More → "Smarter Homes with Siri"

Safety Abounds

element14’s Safe and Sound Design Contest

by Amelia Dalton

September 22, 2017

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry of course! What that chicken really needs is an invisible hazardous environmental factors monitoring system because we all know that winter is coming, right? Dianne Kibbey (element14) joins Fish Fry this week to talk about all of this and more (sans the whole chicken part)! element14 just announced the winners of their Safe and Sound Design contest and Dianne is here to give us the skinny on … Read More → "Safety Abounds"

Audio is the New UI

Tensilica HiFi 3z DSP Makes Waves

by Amelia Dalton

September 15, 2017

In the world of cutting-edge consumer electronics, audio user interfaces reign supreme. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we welcome Yipeng Liu from Cadence Design Systems. Yipeng and I discuss how the complexity of mobile codex sample rates is changing the consumer electronic design landscape, why automotive designs present a unique set of audio design challenges, and what lies ahead for the future of audio user interfaces. Keeping with our hi-fi theme, we also check out the details of the world’s first personalized hi-fi wireless earbuds.

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The Engineering Long Game

Mentorship and Tackling the Continuing Education Conundrum

by Amelia Dalton

September 8, 2017

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we investigate the role of continuing education in our fast-paced electronic engineering ecosystem. Mike Gianfangna (eSilicon) joins us to discuss how both mentorship and formal education can help address the biggest challenges of chip design and why Mike feels that we should treat electronic design startups like wineries.

The Next Frontier of Functional Verification

Breker and the Rising Star of Portable Stimulus

by Amelia Dalton

September 1, 2017

This week’s episode of Fish Fry runs the gamut of electronic design. First, check out how an Italian engineering student built a 3D printer for only twelve dollars! (Spoiler alert: He used recycled parts from three inkjet printers and a flatbed scanner). Next, Breker CEO Adnan Hamid joins us to discuss the controversy around portable stimulus representation models, the future of portable stimulus, and why he thinks we’re just scratching the surface of what portable stimulus can be. Closing out this week’s podcast episode, I take a closer look at Read More → "The Next Frontier of Functional Verification"

The Great Shark Cafe

Uncovering Shark Migration Patterns with 3D Printed Tracking Devices

by Amelia Dalton

August 25, 2017

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…”- Peter Benchley, Jaws

What do 3D printing and great white sharks have in common? This week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Shark Fry of course! My guest Rich Stump (FATHOM) and I chat about how FATHOM is working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to create 3D printed video tracking devices for great white sharks in the California coastal region. Rich and I also discuss the … Read More → "The Great Shark Cafe"

Board to the Future

IoT and the Changing Shape of Board Design

by Amelia Dalton

August 18, 2017

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a truly unique IoT design. As always, should you or any member of your engineering team be caught or killed, we will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This podcast will self destruct in five seconds… As we all know, IoT designs present us with a unique set of prerequisites and board design challenges. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Ted Pawela (Chief Marketing Officer — Altium) joins us to discuss the biggest PCB trends in the IoT ecosystem and what complex board design … Read More →

Plumbing for High Performance Computing

Building a Better Interconnect with CCIX

by Amelia Dalton

August 11, 2017

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, data center technology rules the roost. We can toil away at the world’s greatest IoT design, embedded computer, or specialized IC – but it’s the diligence of datacenter technology that holds the key to the success of our electronic design community. In this week’s Fish Fry, we take a closer look at two different aspects of data center technology. Sachin Dhingra and I investigate a new CCIX verification IP recently rolled out by Cadence that hopes to ease data center interconnect bottlenecks. We also check out IBM’ … Read More →