Embedded Executive Podcast

Here’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 with the company Q5id. Their company is a player in the identify theft arena, helping consumers keep their identities to themselves. The company operates differently from its competitors. I suggest you check it out, and hear it right from John O'Hurley, aka J. Peterman in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Quantum 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 Thomas Prest, the Lead Cryptographic Researcher at PQShield on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

The 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 spoke to Mamta Gupta, the Director of Security and Communications Segment Marketing at Lattice Semiconductor on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Jack 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 discuss how the embedded space has changed over the years. Check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

The 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 and feeds is Skip Ashton, a Distinguished Engineer with Infineon Technologies, and he was my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

There 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 community? That’s the question I posed to Arduino’s CEO, Fabio Violante. We talked the company's development board, about the future of the product, and lots of other things in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

“Matter is a great standard, if you assume it’s just a starting point. Oh, and it’s 10 years too late.” This is how the discussion started with Ian Drew, the Chairman of Foundries.io in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. Ian, who is a long-time veteran of our embedded and IoT industries, sits in the cat-bird’s seat on this and similar topics. As you’ll hear, we went back and forth as to whether his comments were accurate.

Just when you think it’s safe to go back in the water…I’m making an analogy about secure designs. Just when you think the engineering community understands that their designs need to be secure, some research pops up to show that that’s not really the case. Even in these times of hack after hack, designers are still not doing everything they need to do to stop the bad guys. Why is this? To get to the bottom of this issue, I spoke to Mark Hermeling, the Vice President of Global Solutions Engineering at GrammaTech. Hear his perspective in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

The topic on Embedded Executives eventually gets around to security, the specialty of BG Networks, but we had an interesting discussion about what’s happening in today’s universities. My guest on this this week’s Embedded Executives podcast was Roman Lysecky, the CTO of BG Networks. We eventually got around to the topic at hand, one in which I wasn’t familiar with, cyber-resilience. As we break down security into its many facets, this is one that you need to be aware of.

The embedded community has been talking a lot about AI at the Edge. Apparently, it’s not just, as Renesas recently acquired Reality AI. That acquisition lets them leverage a large customer base as well as provides access to what the company is calling a "leading-edge toolset and series of AI models." Renesas probably could have built tools and models themselves, but not nearly as quickly as getting them through acquisition. Hear from from the horse’s mouth why this acquisition was made and what the future holds in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast with Sailesh Chittipeddi, the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Renesas’ IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit.