Podcast appearances and mentions of Duncan Haldane

JITX is a San Jose-based developer of PCB design automation tools. The company's novel platform takes design concepts and convert them into schematics, circuit design, and component placement, among other features. Duncan Haldane, CEO and cofounder, talks with Mike Buetow about the JITX platform, which proposes to rethink and simplify the way electronics are designed by using common language instead of machine code to realized complex ideas as a product design, overcoming legacy technology, and working on the desktop instead of the cloud.  And (teaser alert), listen for an announcement about the premiere PCB Design Community event taking place on October 9 at PCB West at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center.

This week my guest is JITX Co-founder and CEO Duncan Haldane. Duncan and I discuss the challenges of board design and how the benefits of software reuse encouraged the development of JITX, why holistic system design is cornerstone to the JITX software-defined electronics platform, and how you can improve your productivity with the JITX cookbook.

There are better ways to write embedded code than the traditional methods. Doing it in a visual fashion is one of those ways. But how does that work, and how does it adapt specifically to my hardware? While you might have thought such technology was already available, Duncan Haldane, the CEO of JITX says that's not the case. Hear what he has to say on this week's Embedded Executives podcast.

Duncan Haldane, CEO and Co-Founder of Silicon Valley startup, JITX discusses his vision for increasing success and productivity for hardware engineers through automated software-defined PCB Design. Early release successes are promising indicators that JITX is positioned to usher in a new and exciting era for design engineers.  

Duncan Haldane has always approached problems a little differently. In high school, he scavenged auto parts to build robots. In college, Haldane was mimicking biology to create two Guinness world-record robots: the speedy, slightly disturbing X2-VelociRoACH (video) and the crazy, jumping Salto (video). Now he is leading JITX as it builds a new design flow process to automate circuit board design.  I think the motivation is, how do you take the best of how we as a species know how to design hardware and apply it to every single design? How do you make the world's most expert knowledge reusable, repeatable, scalable, in the way that software is? They generate designs with code rather than schematics and use AI to help automate the flow and improve rule checking. According to Haldane, JITX software is targeted at senior engineers to make them more productive. The goal is to automate routine tasks like pin assignments, design checks, and even help users' identify suitable parts that are in stock at distributors.  Haldane recounts how they began designing for customers using early versions of their tool and kept improving by “noticing what didn't work and what was really bad.” He added that they are “making a tool for experts,” so it must “meaningfully help them very quickly, or it's not worth anything at all.” Other highlights from this Moore's Lobby interview of Duncan Haldane include: -Why “robots suck pretty bad as compared to animals” - How simple errors in mass distribution calculations can result in robots that “spin like a maniac” - Discussion of the data challenges that circuit and PCB designers still face - Advice for tech entrepreneurs who are pursuing venture funding

This is a very interesting episode, especially for hardware engineers. Duncan Haldane, the CEO, and co-founder of JITX joins us to share a very interesting approach to PCB design. JITX is a way for hardware engineers to write code to design circuit boards. I know you are excited to hear more! Watch this episode or listen on the go. Be sure to check out the show notes and additional resources below. Watch this episode here Show Highlights: Duncan talks about the Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and the general availability of JITX as an actual product. Duncan's path to engineering started in robotics How can an electrical engineer benefit from JITX? Duncan explained in detail JITX is very well integrated with Altium, it works natively with the existing designs and libraries  Hardware-generated code transforms the job of an engineer a little bit so that they don't have to manually look through all of the different specs for every component that they need JITX is a Nexar partner and uses Octoparts data, in addition, they built a different type of database that's meant for part optimization. Reusable expert hardware engineering knowledge is one of JITX's ultimate goals They are building full automation for boards, new kinds of routing algorithms, new kinds of placement algorithms, and checks for physical geometry The future is optimization Zach and Duncan excitedly talked about AI, and how it can be used to drive some parameters to create new designs Electrical engineers' job is secure, automation can help with the shortage, but will not replace electrical engineers' jobs What the future looks like for JITX Links and Resources: Connect with Duncan Haldane on LinkedIn Visit JITX website Read JITX Launches General Availability And Announces $12M Series A From Sequoia Capital Connect with Zach on LinkedIn Visit Nexar website Visit Octopart website   Claim the special offer for Podcast listeners only

We spoke with Duncan Haldane about creating hardware schematics by writing software code, three dimensional circuits, and bio-inspired jumping robots.   Duncan is the CEO of JitX (jitx.com). They recently received Series A funding and are currently hiring engineers. Please mention that you heard about JitX here on Embedded. While earning a PhD at UC Berkeley, Duncan (@DuncanHaldane) also worked on Salto (video) and OpenRoach (github). Transcript

- Năm 2022 được Liên hợp quốc chọn là năm quốc tế Khoa học cơ bản vì sự phát triển bền vững, nhằm nhấn mạnh đến vai trò của khoa học cơ bản là nền tảng của các cuộc cách mạng công nghệ lớn. Nằm trong chuỗi các hoạt động hưởng ứng năm quốc tế Khoa học cơ bản vì sự phát triển bền vững, chiều nay (19/07), GS. Duncan Haldane- Nhà khoa học xuất sắc đạt giải Nobel Vật lý năm 2016 đã có bài giảng đại chúng tại trường Đại học Khoa học và Công nghệ Hà Nội (USTH), từ đó truyền cảm hứng cho các nhà khoa học trẻ và sinh viên Việt Nam theo đuổi nghiên cứu khoa học. Nhân dịp này, PV Đài TNVN đã có cuộc phỏng vấn GS. Duncan Haldane về tầm quan trọng của nghiên cứu cơ bản với một nước đang phát triển như Việt Nam. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vov1sukien/support

Duncan Haldane is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. In 2016, he, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz, received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” There are many remarkable things about Duncan Haldane, not least his devilishly delightful sense of humor and his ability to playfully take on the most complicated matters. I also admire his intellectual curiosity, humility, and persistence. He is deeply driven by a desire to understand the possibilities of strange—even borderline bizarre—new forms of matter. Despite it taking many decades for his prize-winning work to be confirmed, he never gave up on it. At the same time, though, he never assumed he was right or allowed himself to be swayed by the notion that his brilliance would lead to a revolution in physics—as it has. The very day he learned he'd won the Nobel Prize, he reminded us of what really matters: he went right back to teaching and researching.  Available on Amazon: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner  About Professor Brian Keating: https://www.youtube.com/drbriankeating Podcast in iTunes https://simonsobservatory.org/ https://briankeating.com/ https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbriankeating/

Physics is cool—and sometimes very hard to understand. Today we talk to Duncan Haldane, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize, about quantum topology and why the Nobel committee brought a bagel, a pretzel, and a bun to the award ceremony to explain his ideas. And with the inimitable Sir Roger Penrose, we explore the visual imagination as it relates to science, the work of artist M.C. Escher, and what it has to do with Penrose's cosmological theory of the universe.

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31982]

Sometimes the best ideas are found in nature. At the University of California, Berkeley, researchers at the Biomimetic Millisystems Laboratory have long looked to insects and animals for inspiration in their robotic designs; from cockroaches to lizards. Now, roboticist Duncan Haldane says their latest creation called Salto took a cue from nature and it can jump higher and faster than any other robot out there. "Salto is inspired by a galago, which is bushbaby. Biologists have found animals adapted specifically for jumping had this kind of super crouch posture. The longer they stay in a crouch, the more energy they can transfer into the tendons and the more energy they can return for jumping." Now that Salto is jumping as well as these small primates, they’re looking to humans to explore different behaviors. "The closest model for what we’re trying to do is human parkour. You have these people that excel at running over buildings, bouncing off of all these crazy obstacles like a wall as a feature to help yourself move."

Spezial: Frank Pollmann vom Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme in Dresden über topologische Phasen der Materie und deren Relevanz in der modernen Festkörperphysik

Stream episodes from www.bitesz.com or www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com (both mobile friendly). *A new test for cosmological inflation When the universe burst into existence in the big bang 13.8 billion years ago – something must have happened during the first nanoseconds that caused it to suddenly expand from a singularity of infinite density and virtually zero dimensions in to the universe we see today. Scientists call this mysterious event cosmological inflation -- the problem is they have no real idea what it actually is – and what physical mechanisms drove it. *More mystery surrounding an already strange star Last month we reported how astronomers think they may finally have solved the mystery surrounding a weird erratically flickering and dimming star -- whose strange behaviour -- sparked speculation that it could have been our first sign of an advanced alien civilization. However, a new study has reopened the mystery. *Saturn’s moon Dione has a subsurface ocean New data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has confirmed the existence of another subsurface ocean on a moon in the outer solar system. Cassini has discovered the ocean under the surface of the Saturnian moon Dione. *Nobel Prize in physics goes to topology in materials This year’s Nobel prize for physics has gone to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz for revealing the secrets of exotic matter. The trio used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids and thin magnetic films. If you're enjoying SpaceTime, please help out by sharing and telling your friends. The best recommendation I can get is one from you. Thank you... #astronomy #space #technology #science #news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fysiikan Nobelilla palkitaan fyysikot Michael Kosterlitz, David Thouless sekä Duncan Haldane. Uudet nobelistit ovat ottaneet käyttöön matematiikan osa-alueen topologian, jonka avulla he ovat kuvanneet suprajohteiden, supranesteiden ja ohuiden magneettisten kalvojen fysiikkaa. Heidän kehittämiään teorioita voidaan hyödyntää elektroniikassa, suprajohteiden kehittämisessä ja kvanttitietokoneessa. Michael Kosterlitz on haastateltavana ohjelmassa. Hän on Aalto-yliopistossa vierailevana professorina ja kertoo ensitunnelmistaan, elämästään ja suhteestaan fysiikkaan. Nobelistien töistä kertovat myös professori Tapio Ala-Nissilä ja professori Päivi Törmä Aalto-yliopistosta. Ohjelman loppuosa on varattu lokakuun tähtitaivaalle, joka tarjoaa nähtäväksi planeettoja, hohtavan Linnunradan ja Orionidien tähdenlentoparven. Tähtitaivaasta kertoo professori Markku Poutanen Paikkatietokeskuksesta. Ohjelman toimittaa Sisko Loikkanen.

Die Sweedse Koninklike Akademie vir Wetenskappe het die 2016 Nobelprys vir Fisika aan drie Amerikaners toegeken. Die een helfte van die prys gaan na David Thouless. Die ander helfte word gesamentlik aan Duncan Haldane en Michael Kosterlitz toegeken. Hulle ontvang die prys vir die teoretiese ontdekkings van die topologiese fase-oorgange en topologiese fases van stowwe. Die Dekaan van Navorsing en Nagraadse Studies by die Department Natuurwetenskappe aan die Universiteit van Johannesburg, prof. Andre Strydom, sê dit is die mees opwindende tyd in die vakrigting. Hy sê baie nuwe ontdekkings word gemaak wat verreikende gevolge vir die mensdom kan hê.

Siguiendo con nuestra serie sobre los Premios Nobel ahora le toca el turno al de Física, que ha sido concedido a David Thouless, Duncan Haldane y Michael Kosterlitz, por el desarrollo de modelos que permitieron entender los cambios de estado en materiales cuánticos, y que nos descubrieron que esos cambios de estado están relacionados con cambios en la topología de los materiales. En este capítulo os explicamos qué quiere decir esto de "cambio de estado" y por qué es diferente en estos materiales y en los materiales convencionales. Este programa se emitió originalmente el 4 de octubre de 2016. Podéis escuchar el resto de audios de La Brújula en su canal de iVoox y en la web de Onda Cero, ondacero.es

David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz split the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.  

David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz split the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.  

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.