Fish Fry – Page 55

January 10, 2014

With the Consumer Electronics Show drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect and decompress. In this week’s Fish Fry, we meditate on the electronic engineering wonders and winners of the 2013 element14 Annual Community Awards with Dianne Kibbey of element14. And, if you’re still tense after a solid week in the consumer electronics playground, you are certain to enjoy the soothing waters of PADS board design software. This week, we unveil a whole new way to binge on your favorite Chalk Talk webcasts with the launch of an exciting new series … Read More → "So Sayeth the Community"

Out of the Fab and Into the Frying Pan

Fryin’ up Some Semis with Mike Gianfagna

by Amelia Dalton

December 20, 2013

In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re throwing some FR4 on the barbie and frying up a side of silicon — eSilicon to be exact. My guest is EE Master Chef Mike Gianfagna from eSilicon. Mike always joins Fish Fry around this time of year, and this year we are discussing the state of the semiconductor union: what’s keeping us hungry for Moore, and what trends are boiling on high. Also this week, we check out a new crowdsourcing event called “The Iron Man Factory” that could make your dreams (and mine) of … Read More → "Out of the Fab and Into the Frying Pan"

Body Dashboard

Talking Wearables with Jawbone VP Ivo Stivoric

by Amelia Dalton

December 13, 2013

Alright, Fish Fryers – let’s do some visualization. You’re wearing some kind of device. It’s monitoring your vital signs, it’s measuring your activity, and it knows if you’ve been naughty or nice. What names come to mind? Fitbit? Jawbone? BodyMedia? In this week’s Fish Fry, my guest is none other than Ivo Stivoric. He’s the former co-founder, CTO, and VP of New Products at BodyMedia, the current Vice President of Research and Development at Jawbone, … Read More → "Body Dashboard"

Hackers, Makers, and Teachers

Ben Heck, UVM Primer, and Printing with Metal

by Amelia Dalton

December 6, 2013

The year is drawing to a close, and the snow is falling, but the friday fun is just heatin’ up. Our first guest is none other than Ben Heck from element14’s wildly popular engineering television series “The Ben Heck Show”. Ben gives us an exclusive preview of the next season of “The Ben Heck Show” and lets us in on how he got into this crazy business. Also this week, author Ray Salemi is here to light our … Read More → "Hackers, Makers, and Teachers"

Bright Ideas and Big MCUs

by Amelia Dalton

November 29, 2013

This week’s Fish Fry takes on Black Friday* — no coupons needed, and no standing in line necessary! In honor of today’s annual celebration of America’s shopping obsession, we go behind-the-scenes to check out the engineering ideas (big and small) that drive this gift-giving season. Dianne Kibbey (element14) rolls in with a shopping cart chock-full of innovation from element14’s Smarter Life Challenge, and Rich Hoefle (Microchip Technology) delivers the goods on the world’s fastest … Read More → "Bright Ideas and Big MCUs"

Thankful Times

Embedded Software Store, DigitalOptics, and Intelligent Robots

by Amelia Dalton

November 22, 2013

In honor of Thanksgiving next week, we’re serving up a bountiful virtual turducken* of EE goodness. For the first course, we tackle that age old question: How do you train a fleet of robots to obey your every command? (The key to this quandary may be as close as the eyes on our faces.) In our next course, we serve up a feast of embedded software and embedded IP with Sheneka Coleman from Avnet. Lastly, we finsh up our fine Friday Fun meal with a tasty morsel from Eric Sigler of DigitalOptics. (DigitaOptics’s … Read More → "Thankful Times"

Get Your Motor Runnin’

Thing Power and LaunchPad Motor Control

by Amelia Dalton

November 15, 2013

Late fall doldrums got you down? Looking for a new project to break up the longer, darker nights? Dreaming of a motor control design for the holidays? Never fear! Fish Fry is here to help!

First up, we spin our motors on over to LaunchPad land with Chris Clearman from Texas Instruments, to check out a brand new motor control evaluation kit. And, what if your new motor control design didn’t just consume energy (yawn – how old school), but it also produced it? Well, it could if MicroGEN Systems has … Read More → "Get Your Motor Runnin’"

The MEMS Mothership

2013 MEMS Executive Congress

by Amelia Dalton

November 6, 2013

MEMS. The final frontier. What better place to check out some of the coolest innovation in our electronic engineering community than the 2013 MEMS Executive Congress. QuickLogic has jumped into the MEMS space in big way, and this week Brian Faith (VP – QuickLogic) breaks it all down for us. We’re also waxing MEMS poetic with Alissa Fitzgerald (Founder – AMFitzgerald) and Peter Himes (VP – Silex Microsystems) about the future of innovation in the MEMS sphere. Join us as we get our MEMS on!

… Read More → "The MEMS Mothership"

ARM Wrestling

More MIPS Less Power

by Amelia Dalton

November 1, 2013

Dateline: November 1st. 2013 – 11 hundred hours. Sunnyvale. California. ARMed and Dangerous. We’re in the high tech trenches – MCU’s activated, knee deep in IP, connecting to the IoT, reading from SSD, wearing our GUIs like they are going out of style, and loving every big.LITTLE minute of it. Where o’ where could we be? ARM TechCon. Of course. (Come on, like you didn’t know.) In a special ARM TechCon double header, I check out hardware and software debug with Glenn Woppman (CEO – ASSET InterTech) and open source software for ARM SoCs with … Read More → "ARM Wrestling"

Your Power Plane or Mine?

by Amelia Dalton

October 24, 2013

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Go directly to the power plane. Whether we like it or not, power integrity analysis is now a bigger (and messier) part of our PCB design process. In this week’s Fish Fry, we get down to the bare metal of those pesky power planes with Brad Griffin of Cadence. Also this week, we check out a super cool new 3D printed robot (yes, you want one) and investigate what sets this little cutie apart from other humanoid robots.