Embedded Executive Podcast

Develop an ASIC for less than $10,000? I didn’t believe it either. But according to Jeff DiCorpo, a Senior VP at efabless, not only is it possible, but people are doing it with his company’s tools. Learn how to generate your own design on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

LoRaWAN wants to invade your home. Its backers think that it’s perfect for many smart home applications. However, don’t we already have one — or two or three —wireless networks that are “perfect” for the home, namely Bluetooth and WiFi?

That’s how the conversation started with Remi Lorrain, Semtech’s LoRaWAN Network Director, in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Two applications we discuss often at Embedded Computing Design are automotive and medical. More and more, these applications are making use of the Linux operating system. Why is that the case, and is it the same flavor for each? That’s where I started the interview with Shuah Khan, of the Linux Foundation. Shuah is both a Linux Kernel Fellow and Chair of the ELISA Project Technical Steering Committee, and she was my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Here’s a fact that won’t shock you—the automotive industry is in the midst of a huge transformation thanks to AI technology. Here’s another fact that won’t be a surprise—NVIDIA is smack in the middle of that transformation. To understand what that transformation is all about and how it’ll play out, I spoke to Danny Shapiro, NVIDIA’s Senior Director of Automotive in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. Spoiler alert: we needn’t wait for 5G to make autonomous drive a reality.

Is Intel teaming up with SiFive to produce RISC-V chips? It depends how much you read between the lines in a recent release from SiFive. Rather than speculate, I decided to go to the source and ask the folks at SiFive what’s going on, and that’s what I did with James Prior, SiFive’s Head of Global Communications, in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

We spent a lot of time talking about the specification known as CHIP (Connected Home over IP). While the hard work on this topic continues, the names of the group and the standard have changed. This includes Matter, which is a set of standards that encompass the connected home in a safe and secure manner, and the ZigBee Alliance. It sounds complicated, but if you listen to Steve Hanna, a Distinguished Engineer, Infineon Technologies, you’ll understand it as quickly as I did. Steve was my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

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, means different things to different people. Then in Part II, Allan and I discuss whether there’s really a need for AIoT, and if the current solutions are really solutions.

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.

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.

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.