Embedded Executive Podcast

Energy 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, Vice President of Product Management at Atmosic Technologies on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Software-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 explanation. Check it out on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

We 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 and Emerging Technologies team at Unisys, Cloud-based AI is experiencing significant growth. To understand why that’s happening and what can be expected going forward, I spoke to Christina on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

We 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 and Emerging Technologies team at Unisys, Cloud-based AI is experiencing significant growth. To understand why that’s happening and what can be expected going forward, I spoke to Christina on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

A 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 what that means and the effect it’s having and will continue to have in our space, I spoke to Jeff Hibbard, the CEO IntervalZero on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Fast-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 addition, most of our phones are limiting the speed at which the battery can be charged, negating the advantages of GaN. To fully understand this, I spoke to Stephen Oliver, Vice President at Navitas Semiconductor on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

DRAM 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, they are quite different. If you don’t believe me, I suggest you give it a listen.

Digital 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, the CTO and Managing Partner of Qualinx B.V., a company that specializes in this digital RF. Check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Semtech 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 obviously synergies between the companies, but was an acquisition really the best move? You’ll hear about that and more.

The 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 be taking on without any real formal training, I spoke to Philipp Baechtold, the CEO of Enclustra on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. His company can either train you to do your FPGA-based design, or they can do it for you.