It’s obvious that you can do 5G without AI. However, the inverse is not always true—adding 5G to AI makes the AI platform run far more efficiently. In the third of three podcasts, I discussed this topic with Allan Yang, the CTO of Advantech . Allan brings a great perspective, as his company is one of the architects behind AI platforms. Hear all about it in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast . In case you were wondering, Part I looked at the general definition of AIoT, which you likely know,...
May 26, 2021•11 min
Being part of a division that works with artificial intelligence, you’d expect that the folks at Lenovo would come up with some innovative ways to operate during the pandemic. And you’d be right. Hear what Rob Herman, Lenovo’s General Manager of its Workstation and Client AI Business Unit had to say in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast .
May 19, 2021•10 min
AI and all its varied facets are new to most of the world. The technology is taking off and, in some developers’ eyes, a little faster than it should be. The reason for that pessimism has to do with the lack of testing that’s occurred and continues to (not) occur with respect to AI. Ken Grohe, the President of WekaIO joins me for this week’s Embedded Executives podcast where we discuss why this phenomenon is occurring, and what we should do about it....
May 12, 2021•10 min
It seems like there’s a new security solution popping up on a daily basis. One new entrant is SecuriThings , an IoT security vendor focusing on the healthcare industry. They’re moving one step up the food chain from our traditional embedded vendor in that their customer is the hospital, rather than the device maker. But the issues are just about the same. Hear it directly from SecuriThings CEO and Co-Founder Roy Dagan, in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
May 05, 2021•6 min
There’s no moss gathering on the RISC-V stone. The group continues to make progress in just about all facets of its roadmap. To understand what those milestones are (and why they are place), I spoke to the RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast .
Apr 28, 2021•11 min
In part II of a three-part series, Allan Yang, the Chief Technology Officer of Advantech , joins to discuss whether the application defines and solves the problem, or has the IoT become a solution looking for a problem. I’m oversimplifying here, but check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast to hear the details. In part I , Allan and I put down our collective definitions of AIoT - level the playing field, so to speak....
Apr 21, 2021•15 min
Is memory that’s aimed at a specific market really customized for that segment, or is it just marketing spiel? We have mobile memory, IoT memory, AI memory, and so on. Are they really different? That’s the question I posed to Huibert Verhoeven, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive, Mobile and Emerging business segments at Western Digital in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
Apr 14, 2021•9 min
InnovationLab is giving new meaning to printed electronics. The company is literally printing electronics, not like a typical PCB. The current application is for sensors, like temperature sensors, but the potential is huge (and inexpensive). Check out my discussion with Florian Ullrich, Head of Business Development for InnovationLab this week’s Embedded Executives podcast .
Apr 07, 2021•9 min
This week’s podcast guest, Johanna Pingel, a Product Manager at MathWorks , said that engineers should be concerned with the AI workflow. Do you agree? Do you even know what that means? I didn’t so I decided to go directly to the source and ask the question. Hear the answer on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast .
Mar 31, 2021•10 min
We’ve defined AIoT on multiple occasions; it’s where AI intersects with the IoT. And for our purposes, it typically involves the Industrial IoT, aka IIoT. To understand what this means to a system developer, and the impact that it’s had on their business, I chatted with Allan Yang, the Chief Technology Officer of Advantech in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast . We started by discussing whether hardware is now simply a commodity, or whether innovation really can occur on the hardware side w...
Mar 24, 2021•13 min
There’s been a shift in the security outlook, at least in my eyes. We’ve moved from “how do I keep from getting hacked” to “I’m going to get hacked, so I need to minimize the fallout.” To find out if I’m alone in this belief, I discussed the topic with Harry Haramis, the General Manager of PrimeKey in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast . Hear what Harry has to say.
Mar 17, 2021•8 min
Security is clearly in the spotlight these days, and for good reason—hacks continue on a regular basis. But the pendulum has shifted from “you need to make your system is hackproof” to “you need to minimize the damage when the inevitable hack occurs.” Is there truth to this statement? That’s the question I asked Stefan Skarin, CEO, IAR Systems , the company that also owns the Secure Thingz brand in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
Mar 10, 2021•7 min
When you’re looking for somebody with a bird’s eye view of the electronics industry, there aren’t too many people with a better handle on things than the CEO of Avnet, Phil Gallagher. As my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast , I went through a host of issues related to the industry, from the pandemic to the life of an up and coming engineer, to how a company can survive for 100 years.
Mar 03, 2021•10 min
Security is vital. However, there are many different ways to approach security. There’s hardware security and software security, but those vague descriptors don’t even scratch the surface on all the different implementation methods. Attaching your security to the MCU is the method of choice for Crypto Quantique , a startup in this space. To understand exactly what that means and how it works, I spoke to Shahram Mossayebi, the company’s CEO and Co-Founder, for this week’s Embedded Executives podc...
Feb 24, 2021•6 min
Just when you thought you had plugged all the holes, more vulnerability points pop up. Actually, in the case of the consumer IoT, they were there all along, just far less publicized. In the big scheme of things, having an individual get hacked is a big deal, but usually just for that one person. However, if you hack multiple people, you could be getting to a point where it’s a big deal for more than one individual. Phil Attfield, the CEO of Sequitur Labs , has a pretty handle on this and underst...
Feb 17, 2021•10 min
FPGAs represent a comfort zone for many design engineers. It’s not as bad as “if all I have is a hammer, every problem is a nail,” but you can see how the analogy might fit. Are FPGAs appropriate for mission-critical applications? They could be, if they’re deployed properly. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Hear more about this topic in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast with Terry Stratoudakis, the Co-founder and Managing Principal at ALE Consultants ....
Feb 10, 2021•12 min
Wind River has been king of the RTOS hill for a long time. We can debate whether they are still the reigning king. But now, since last February, the company finds itself under new leadership, with the appointment of Kevin Dallas as President and CEO. And the company is undergoing a transformation. That transformation isa into a systems company, one that looks far beyond the RTOS. Hear it right from the horse’s mouth in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast . PS: Have you seen the Wind River we...
Feb 03, 2021•19 min
I detect a disconnect—display technology continues to evolve. Not necessarily at breakneck speed, but fast enough that you want to upgrade your technology every few (five?) years. But in the places like airports, bus and train terminals, etc., they don’t want to upgrade that frequently. So what’s a display supplier to do? That’s the question I posed to David King, the President of Litemax , a leader in industrial displays, in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
Jan 27, 2021•9 min
It takes a huge amount of compute power to perform AI. In the past, those calculations occurred in the Cloud, where the cluster of processors would reside. The push today is to move AI out to the Edge. But can we handle the processing that’s required for AI out on the Edge? That’s the question I posed to Ed Kuzemchak, the Chief Technology Officer at Software Design Solutions , an Applied Visions company, in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
Jan 20, 2021•10 min
A hardware revolution is underway, thanks to software! Is it really? It is according to Dipti Vachani, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Arm’s Automotive and IoT Lines of Business in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast . Dipti does a great job explaining why this is the case and what the developer community needs to do about it. Check it out....
Jan 13, 2021•12 min
Should you fear the quantum security apocalypse? Do you even know it is and what it means and how it can occur? If you have any doubt, I suggest you listen to this week’s Embedded Executives podcast , where I spoke to Alan Grau, the Vice President of IoT and Embedded Solutions at Sectigo .
Jan 06, 2021•8 min
What is mission critical? It’s one of those, “ask five people and you’ll get five different answers” questions. For this exercise, I asked the question of Arun Subbarao, the Vice President of Engineering at Lynx Software Technologies , because it’s something he deals with on a daily basis. Upon his response, the next questions was, “How far are you willing to go to make your system meet that criteria?” But the real questions is, “How much are you willing to pay?” And that’s just the beginning of...
Dec 18, 2020•10 min
COVID-19 still starts just about every conversation, and that was the case in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast , when I spoke to Jason Carlson, the CEO of congatec . But I really wanted to discuss COM-HPC with Jason, a standard that’s just about ready for prime time. If you’re not familiar, COM-HPC is a new computer-on-module standard that is a 4X improvement over existing technology. Jason says it’s a “once every 10 years” technology. Learn more about it, like I did, from Jason....
Dec 09, 2020•8 min
When it comes to security, nothing should be taken for granted and a developer should never assume. First, start the security discussion right at the beginning of the design. And keep it in mind throughout the process. But also, understand the cost of security. While it’s important to prevent hacks, the amount of dollars and resources spent on security must be part of an intelligent business decision. To understand better what that means, check out my interview with Dr. Andreas Kuehlmann, the Ex...
Dec 02, 2020•7 min
My definition of Industry 5.0 has to do with putting people and robots into the same environment, and having them work and operate together, safely and securely. How we get to that point is still a matter of contention. For a better understanding of what it means and how we get there, I talked to Sameer Wasson, the Vice President and Business Unit Manager for Texas Instruments’ processor business in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
Nov 25, 2020•11 min
Standards abound in the world of the IoT. There are standards organizations, some ad-hoc, some with some real muscle behind them. That is certainly the case when it comes to security for the IoT. But what if you’re designing to “open standards?” That’s something that crossed my desk recently, and to be honest, I wasn’t sure what it meant, so I decided to go to the source of that phrase, Marcin Nagy, the Product Director for IoT at AVSystem . In this week’s Embedded Executives podcast , I had Mar...
Nov 18, 2020•7 min
Higher voltages and higher frequencies are becoming commonplace in embedded designs. That in itself doesn’t necessarily cause an issue. But when you add in that packages continue to shrink in size, you have the potential for detrimental heat and airflow issues. How do you deal with that? That’s where the discussion started with Dr. Phil Lessner, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, at KEMET . He had lots of advice for system designers in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast...
Nov 11, 2020•10 min
Cellular IoT is one way of connecting our devices. But is it the best way? I could make a really good argument why it’s not, and I actually tried to do that in my discussion with Dima Feldman, the Vice President of Product Management at Altair Semiconductor , now a Sony Group Company. In this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ., Dima explained how it works and where it makes the most sense....
Nov 04, 2020•9 min
There are a lot of adjectives that you can use to describe a smart home: cool, useful, efficient, safe, etc. However, you also have to add “complex” to your list, because getting these smart devices to work and (gulp) interoperate, well that’s a different story. That’s where Connected Home over IP Alliance (CHIP) comes into play. In theory—and I’m told in practice as well—if any device is CHIP compliant, you simply plug it in and it works. If you look at the list of collaborators, you have to be...
Oct 28, 2020•11 min
Did you know there were standards established for wireless charging? In fact, they’re up to Rev. 2.0 of the standard. This was news to me. Stephen Rizzone, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Energous Corp. joined me to fill in the gaps, which in my case, were fairly wide. With the new spec, the distance the device can be from the charger is now measured in feet. Hear more in to this week’s Embedded Executives podcast ....
Oct 21, 2020•12 min
