Embedded Edge

Today, we're exploring the fascinating evolution of wearable devices—how they're transforming from fitness trackers into medical-grade monitors, and what that means for the future of healthcare. From real-time health data and AI-powered insights to groundbreaking diabetes technologies and emerging IoT health tools, we'll uncover how innovation is reshaping personal health management. 

Today, it is a pleasure to have a special guest, Geir Kjosavik, joining us to discuss precisely why Nordic Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company that has a long track record and legacy in designing ultra-low-power wireless solutions, made the move towards power management ICs, or PMICs.  The increasing popularity of battery-operated devices, often characterized by a complex power tree that includes smartphones, hearables, wearables, IoT devices, and other complex portable equipment, has, in turn, driven up the demand for PMICs.   In this episode, we'll explore exactly why Nordic Semiconductor entered the PMIC business in 2021 and how they increased their market share. We'll also discuss what a PMIC is, why companies might want to consider integrating one, and precisely how Nordic's PMIC portfolio is different from existing solutions in the marketplace.

In this episode, we sit down with Vineet Ganju, Vice President of Wireless Connectivity Products at Synaptics, a global leader in advanced sensing solutions that enhance human-device interaction. Vineet shares his expert insights on the rapidly evolving world of wireless connectivity technologies, from Wi-Fi 7 and 8 to Bluetooth innovations, Zigbee, Thread, and Ultra-Low Energy (ULE) solutions. We dive into the trends and challenges shaping the future of connected devices, the critical role of security in wireless networks, and how Synaptics is driving the next wave of Edge AI connectivity advancements for consumer electronics, wearables, smart home products, and more. Let's talk with Vineet.

In this episode of Embedded Edge, our guest is Richard Jaenicke, director of marketing for safety- and security-critical products at Green Hills Software. With over 25 years of experience in embedded systems, Richard discusses Green Hills' contributions to safety and security in industries such as aerospace, defense, automotive, and medical. The conversation dives into the company's Integrity-178 real-time operating system, which ensures both safety and security for critical systems, as well as the company's future goals in enhancing embedded system integrity across various sectors.

Embedded antennas are crucial components in modern wireless communication systems, enabling seamless connectivity in a wide range of applications, from IoT devices to automotive systems. In this episode, we'll uncover the design principles, material choices, and integration challenges that define the performance and reliability of these antennas. Our guest is Dermot O'Shea, CEO and co-founder of Taoglas. Dermot has been working in the global electronics industry since 1997. A graduate of University College Dublin, Dermot has also completed graduate courses in business, computing and enterprise development from Dublin Business School, Griffith College, and Waterford Institute of IT, respectively.

In this episode of Embedded Edge, we explore how AI-native technologies are revolutionizing wireless systems. Our guest, Houman Zarrinkoub, principal product manager for wireless communications at MathWorks, discusses the importance of AI in advancing 5G and 6G standards, the benefits over traditional models, and the future potential of digital twins in wireless communication.

Nitin Dahad sits down with Sam Geha is the Executive Vice President of the IoT, Compute and Wireless Business at Infineon Technologies to discuss how AI is going to transform IoT at the edge.

In this episode of Embedded Edge, we're thrilled to be joined by Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, a pioneering company at the forefront of photonic computing. With a focus on using light instead of electricity, Q.ANT's innovation promises not just higher computational density but also a dramatic reduction in energy consumption. Today, we'll dive into the fundamental differences between traditional silicon-based systems and photonic computing, the potential of thin-film lithium niobate in this revolution and the broader impact on industries.

Infineon's VP Sivaram Trikutam and Nitin Dahad explore new insights in IoT landscape as the use of Wi-Fi 6/6E expands and why it serves as the foundation for current and next-generation IoT designs. We'll discuss technology trends, typical applications, future predictions and how Wi-Fi 6/6E will make our lives and IoT devices more convenient and energy efficient. 

In this episode, François Baldassari from Memfault explains the concept of observability and why he believes there's a reliability crisis in today's embedded software. He does this in the context of changing business models for IoT deployments, from selling devices to selling solutions as a service, and why that requires vendors to identify issues in the field before the customer does. He also talks about why today's IoT developers need to consider the benefits of open source or third-party software vs build-your-own software, and how Memfault's blended approach offers a strategic advantage as part of an integrated software quality strategy.

In this embedded edge podcast, we address some of the likely causes and implications of the recent global IT outage caused by a Crowdstrike software update for Microsoft operating system-based devices. 

In this podcast, we talk focus on security, talking to Infineon Technologies about the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its implications for the entire supply chain, plus a chat with zeroRISC about the role of open-source silicon security in embedded systems and IoT.

We are currently experiencing a significant turning point in the semiconductor industry, marked by the rapid adoption of heterogeneous integration of dies into a single package. This new architecture presents unique challenges and demands. However, one thing is certain: the industry needs an interconnect that quickly and reliably links the dies. The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) has emerged as the leading standard for die-to-die connectivity due to its flexibility, comprehensive stack support, and technical strengths. This podcast delves into the UCIe standard, describing the challenges it helps designers tackle, some of the progress since its inception, and ways to maximize UCIe beyond the standard's definition. We will also explain how to best utilize UCIe to cater to your specific application needs.

In this podcast, we talk about MCUs, automotive memory and clock generators through interviews from embedded world 2024 with executives from STMicroelectronics, Micron Technology, SiTime, and Nuvoton. 

In this embedded edge with Nitin podcast, we explore megatrends in memory and storage in automotive, virtualization and development tool support for automotive SoCs, and embedded vision, through interviews with Micron Technology, Green Hills Software, and e-con Systems.

In this episode, we talk about formal verification (FV) with Dr Ashish Darbari, founder, and CEO of Axiomise. We talk about the role of FV in enabling designs to be shipped bug-free, how FV helps developers and where it fits in the design flow, whether it's in embedded AI, IoT or high-performance computing (HPC). We also learn about Axiomise – from the company's founding in 2017 to its impact in today's embedded world.  

In this podcast, we chat with ProvenRun and Crypto Quantique about secure operating systems and hardware IP for the IoT, and with Cascoda on the success of KNX in smart buildings.

In this podcast, we discuss the NFC technology roadmap to 2028, why open, ambient IoT is key to the proliferation of connected devices, and an open silicon photonics platform to address HPC/AI needs.

In this podcast we chat with Alessandro Ranellucci of Arduino to hear about the company's new UNO R4 32-bit development offering Wi-Fi connectivity and one-click cloud connectivity for IoT.

Nitin Dahad, editor in chief of Embedded.com, shares an interview from the Future of the Car 2023 conference.

In this podcast, we talk to SemiDynamics about its fully configurable 64-bit RISC-V core, VyperCore talks about memory allocation management to enable 10x compute performance improvement, and Agile Analog speaks on new digitally wrapped analog IP subsystems.

In this episode of Embedded Edge with Nitin, Sailesh Chittipeddi from Renesas Electronics discusses the Panthronics acquisition and its relevance to the company's connectivity strategy, as well as insights from Synopsys executives at the SNUG 2023 event on cloud EDA, silicon lifecycle management, multi-die, and AI-driven EDA.

In this special edition podcast from embedded world 2023 in Nuremberg, Germany, we look at the latest in edge AI, IoT, and machine vision to serve the smart connected edge.

In this podcast: a look at what's happening in software-defined vehicles from the e/e architecture perspective, intelligent edge trends and FPGAs, plus edge connectivity, especially for asset tracking where multiple protocols need to be managed.

In this episode, we talk about chiplets, 3D stacking, heterogenous integration, and multi-die systems design. Stanford University's Subhasish Mitra talks about his keynote at the HiPEAC conference, where he talked about using computation immersed in memory to break down the memory wall and the scaling wall and build a dream chip delivering 1000x energy efficiency. And then, we talk to Cadence, Synopsys, and Eliyan about some of the opportunities and challenges for chiplet design.

The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) launched the Matter standard with great fanfare in Amsterdam this month, where chip vendors to consumer brands talked about its role in making all smart home products work together, no matter what connectivity protocol is used. In this podcast, we talk to some of the chip vendors about its role in making this happen.

In this podcast, we talk to GlobalFoundries about serving the need of most applications that don't need the technologies arising from Moore's Law scaling and single-digit nanometer technologies. Plus, we talk to congatec about trends in boards and modules and to Cadence Design Systems about EDA 2.0.

In this podcast, we talk about technologies and products for Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-Sun, and Wi-Fi 6 that help enable solutions for smart homes and smarter living, and about post-quantum cryptography, needed for when quantum computers will break current security encryption systems that the IoT depends on.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary, Nitin Dahad unfolds the story of the electronics industry's evolution through the eyes of two EE|Times' former editors-in-chief. Richard Wallace and Girish Mhatre discuss developing a world-class editorial team, the role of semiconductors today, and implications for serving the industry in the years to come.

The second of two podcast episodes from this year's 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2022). Looking beyond the main EDA vendors, we talk IP, connectivity, chiplets, eFPGAs and post-quantum cryptography.

At this year's 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2022), we talked to the major EDA vendors on trends in the design automation world, pointing to digital twins and the metaverse, cloud-based EDA, and intelligent system design. Verification and democratization of silicon was also a key topic.

Third and final in our series of embedded edge podcasts from embedded world in Nuremberg highlights news from key players in boards, software and solutions.

Second of three embedded edge podcasts from embedded world in Nuremberg highlights news from the RISC-V ecosystem, including new products.

First of three embedded edge podcasts from embedded world in Nuremberg highlights news on processing, microcontrollers, memory and FPGAs. Plus, a special report from the Goodwood Festival of Speed on the tech behind a special 2021 McLaren 720S Spider sports car.

In this embedded edge podcast, we talk about ‘cloudification' of connected devices, separation kernels, and the importance of deterministic behavior in mission critical and safety critical systems. Guests include Pavan Singh of Lynx Software Technologies, who explains how its MOSA.ic platform now supports deployment of Google Anthos bare metal at the mission critical edge; and Dirk Akemann of SEGGER who talks about SEGGER's introduction of runtime libraries enabling deterministic behavior when running C++, opening up the possibility of using C++ in many more safety critical applications.

In this episode of the embedded edge with Nitin podcast, we talk to the CEO of RISC-V International, Calista Redmond, on the growth in adoption of the RISC-V instruction set architecture, underlining the Intel announcement earlier this year as being the pivotal point in the history of RISC-V. Our second guest, Steve Pawlowski, who leads Micron's advanced computing solutions group, talks about brain-inspired computing, underlining the limitations of modern computing systems which consume far too much energy to deliver the artificial intelligence-based systems we desire. He said that to truly scale, AI needs to be much more efficient, and should take our cues from the human brain.

In this episode of the Embedded Edge podcast, we look at intelligent displays. As we see more edge intelligence being implemented, it seems a natural progression to make the human-machine interface intelligent too. We talk to two companies that have partnered to put intelligence into displays, about edge visualization capability, and about how smart displays are being used in different vertical applications.

In this episode of the Embedded Edge podcast, we talk to industry veteran John Goodacre about an initiative he is leading to make computer systems architecture more ‘secure by design' by addressing memory safety exploits. This involves use of the CHERI-enabled RISC processors that are gaining significant academic and industrial interest.

On this podcast: we cover developments in lidar, as several makers have been telling us how they want to make lidar ubiquitous, plus we look behind the hardware agnostic connected car platform recently introduced by BlackBerry called BlackBerry Ivy. During the CES 2022 show, we caught up with Ted Tewkesbury, CEO of Velodyne Lidar, who tells us why it's an ‘exciting' time to be in the lidar industry. In the second part of the podcast, Sarah Tatsis senior vice president for the Ivy platform development at BlackBerry, talked about its hardware agnostic intelligent vehicle data platform it co-developed with Amazon Web Services, shown at CES for the first time on physical hardware with the aim of showing how AI-based decisions would impact in-car experiences.

On this podcast: we chat to Joe Sawicki of Siemens, who talks about EDA trends and why he thinks digitalization in the semiconductor industry will drive massive industry growth in the years ahead, plus why he cringes when people say Moore's Law is dead. Then we talk to MikroElektronika's founder Neb Matic on what he said is world's first hardware-as-a-service offer for the embedded industry, offering a real time, remote, visual development environment for just $4 a day.

Xilinx talks about its new Alveo data center accelerator card and clustering solution for FPGAs in this episode of our Embedded Edge podcast. Also: Weaver Labs on how its software lets telecoms providers use blockchain to manage and monetize virtualized networks; and intelligent wireless battery management with Dukosi.

In this episode of the Embedded Edge podcast, we hear from Imagination Technologies on a next generation GPU for ray tracing on mobile; talk about open-source software for quantum computing with Cambridge Quantum; hear about a project led by sureCore to develop cryogenic IP; and chat with Cascoda on secure IP-based mesh networks for smart buildings.

Nitin Dahad talks to Graham Curren, CEO of Sondrel, who founded the chip design service company nearly 20 years ago. We talked about why he started, their first chip design, what's changed over the last 20 years, and about what's in store for chip design in the future. Here's one clue: it's all about the size.

ADLINK talks about a new Arm based COM-HPC Altra Server type module, a HMI design firm tells us about a new concept for an automotive steering wheel, plus the CEO of EnOcean on why smart spaces needs batteryless IoT sesnsors.

    What is the future of edge computing? It's all going to be about edge autonomy and automated sharing of information between devices. And how do you start with IoT deployment? This requires both domain expertise and solution ready products. These are the two topics we explore in this episode with two embedded boards and solutions providers.    

We talk to the track chairs for this year's virtual DAC 2020 conference to hear about some of the trending topics, especially growth in AI, ML and RISC-V