Embedded Executive 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.

“The IoT industry needs to change.” Those were the words uttered by this week’s Embedded Executives podcast guest, Ian Drew, the Chairman of Foundries.io. Ian is a long-time veteran of our embedded and IoT industries, and has a pretty colorful history, so you may want to take note of his comments. Tune in to the full interview now!

I say it often, "It’s just storage, what could be new or exciting about it?" And each time I express that opinion to one of the memory experts, I get an earful of what’s new and different. My conversation with Frank Chen, the CEO of Exascend, went down a similar path. Frank came up with a host of reasons why people should pay closer attention to their memory subsystems. Hear what he has to say in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

The experts at Cycuity preach taking a holistic approach to security in your embedded system. That sounds like a good plan, but what does it mean? That’s the first question I posed to Andreas Kuehlmann, the CEO of Cycuity. And just in case you’re wondering who Cycuity is, it’s the former Tortuga Logic, with a new name. Check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast to hear more.

The LoRaWAN specification continues to introduce new products, technologies, applications, and use cases on a regular basis. The consortium recently held a large-scale conference to discuss, display, and tout the latest developments. As such, I invited Alistair Fulton, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group, to join me on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. Note that Semtech plays a big role in both the LoRA Alliance and its ecosystem.

Atomera is a semiconductor materials and IP licensing company. They acknowledge that Moore’s Law is slowing down. Manufacturers are looking for ways to reverse that trend. And as you might expect, it comes at a significant cost. Atomera has a series of improvements that could help. To learn more, I spoke to Scott Bibaud, the President and CEO of Atomera. I suggest you check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast to hear some of these ideas.

What RTOS dominates the embedded space? Your first guess might be Linux, but you would be wrong, by a wide margin. FreeRTOS is the winner. If you’re wondering how and why FreeRTOS came to be, this is the podcast for you. Today i'm speaking with the RTOS’s original creator, Richard Barry. Richard is now part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), but he is still leading the charge for FreeRTOS. Hear how it came about, and where Richard thinks it’s going on this this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Many applications today are “software-defined.” Until recently, I would not have used that term to describe an automobile, but I’ve since been set straight. In this this week’s Embedded Executives podcast I spoke to Jeff Chou, the CEO and founder of Sonatus, who gave me his definition of the software-defined automobile and explained why it’s far better to handle these functions in software versus hardware.

When you have a chance to chat with somebody who is a pioneer in the embedded space, you grab it. And that’s what happened this week when Rolf Segger, Founder of Segger Microcontroller, agreed to be my guest on this this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.  Rolf is known for not pulling any punches and he was quite honest with me when we discussed what’s happening in the world of embedded. We talked about RTOSs and security amongst other topics.