Yunsup Lee was part of the RISC-V movement from the ground floor. He was one of the original authors of the spec right from Day 1. Currently, Lee is the CTO of SiFive , one of the leaders in terms of RISC-V IP. But this Five Minutes With…discussion revolves around the Chips Alliance , where Lee is a Board Member. The Alliance has a goal of developing open-source hardware, which dovetails perfectly with the motivation behind RISC-V. Tune in for more....
Sep 04, 2019•6 min
IoT is evolving. We’ve added components like AI and machine learning, more complex Edge nodes, and so on. Hence, I thought the time was right to speak to someone in the cat bird’s seat about what designers can expect in the IoT space over the next few years. That “someone” was Cliff Ortmeyer, Head of Technical Marketing, Newark , who was my guest on this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Aug 28, 2019•10 min
Engineers have been designing PCBs for a long time. As components get smaller and more integrated, and a frequencies increase, the complexities increase exponentially. The tools are generally keeping pace, but that doesn’t make them any easier to use. In this week’s Five Minutes With…podcast, I spoke to Lawrence Romine, a vice president of Altium , one of the leaders in PCB design. We also chatted briefly about the company’s annual conference, Altium Live , that teaches designers the ins and out...
Aug 07, 2019•9 min
When you can use your “powers” for the good of society, that’s a great thing. I came across a story that described a bus for handicapped people that took advantage of AI technology. It’s really cool; so cool in fact, that it requires two guests on my weekly Five Minutes With…podcast, the first time we’ve ever done that. Check out my discussion with Joe Speed, Field CTO of ADLINK’s IoT Solutions & Technology Group and Mohamed Elwazer, Technical Founder & CEO of linedanceAI ....
Jul 31, 2019•9 min
There’s a lot going on at the Linux Foundation, including the announcement that we discussed last week that had to do with new features and ecosystem partners joining the open-source software and tools fray with LF Edge . So it seemed appropriate to take a deeper dive into the Foundation, which is what I did with Arpit Joshipura, the General Manager for Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion....
Jul 24, 2019•7 min
LF Edge is an umbrella organization operating within the Linux Foundation. The group recently made an important announcement around open-source software and tools. The announcement has to do with a new release that adds a lot of new features and new ecosystem partners joining the fray. The bottom line is that the technology is now ready for prime time. To get more detail, check out this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion with Jason Shepherd, a member of the LF Edge Governing Board and also the ...
Jul 17, 2019•7 min
If you use cellular for your positioning and 5G is finally coming, you’re likely in a good position. To determine whether that’s actually the case, I spoke to Ed Chao, the CEO of Polte in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion. Ed explained how and why that is the case, using lots of easy-to-digest examples.
Jul 10, 2019•6 min
5G is going to revolutionize the world. Well, maybe it’ll revolutionize how we handle communications. However, it needs to be rolled out. Is that ever going to happen? Probably, but when? That’s where I started in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion with Kailash Narayanan, a Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Devices Segment at Keysight Technologies .
Jun 28, 2019•7 min
Embedded developers need to protect their systems after they are deployed. That’s not always easy to do, as you sometimes don’t know exactly where deployment is taking place. So, what to do? That’s the question I asked of Alan Grau, the Vice President of IoT and Embedded Solutions for Sectigo in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Jun 19, 2019•6 min
Industrial robots have been used for automotive assembly for quite some time. Now, they are expanding their use into just about any industrial application you can think of, and they’ll be including the use of AI in those robots. Where does the AI come in and how does it work? Those are the first questions I asked Kai Wang, a Director on NexCOBOT’s Robot and Automation team in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Jun 12, 2019•7 min
Machine learning isn’t yet mainstream, but it’s getting there. One example of that is how it’s affecting the automotive space. To understand how that works, I invited Ricardo Margalho, the Co-founder and CEO of Stratio Automotive , to join me in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion. How they handle that technology is quite interesting and it’s easy to see how it can evolve and expand. Tune in for more.
Jun 05, 2019•8 min
Zephyr is an open-source operating system that’s designed for applications where Linux is simply too big, from a space or power perspective. Is Zephyr right for your application? How would you even know? And if it is, where do you start? These are just some of the questions I threw at Kate Stewart, a Senior Director of Strategic Programs for the Linux Foundation , the governing body of Zephyr in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion....
May 29, 2019•8 min
Zvonimir Bandic wears lots of hats. He is the Senior Director of Hardware Platforms for Western Digital ; he’s a Member of the Board of Directors for the RISC-V Foundation , and he’s the Chairman of the Chips Alliance . It’s that latter capacity that we discussed in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion. The organization focuses on things like open source hardware, software tools, RTL development, and related topics. They will be holding their inaugural workshop in just a few weeks, so it was...
May 22, 2019•7 min
We now have the capability to implement super-specific GPS, far more accurate than what we’re accustomed to today. But do we really need to know exactly where we are, within centimeters, or is the current technology good enough? And assuming you picked the former, how do you actually do that? Those are just some of the questions I asked of Yang Zhao, the CEO of ACEINNA , in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
May 15, 2019•6 min
RISC-V is the new instruction-set architecture that people can use to design microprocessors. Calista Redmond is the newly appointed CEO of the RISC-V Foundation , the group that manages the spec and is putting on seminars and conferences around the world. In this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion, I asked Calista about her plans for the organization, which potentially plays a large role in our industry moving forward.
May 07, 2019•10 min
There seems to be a foundation/association for just about everything in our space these days. Are such institutions necessary? Do they wear out their usefulness? I asked that question of Mike Milinkovich, the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation . Of course, he defended his group, but his reasoning was quite interesting. Check out this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
May 01, 2019•8 min
