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You can’t build an embedded system without power. Plain and simple. Hence, embedded developers need to be up to speed on the latest power-related technologies. The key attribute that needs to be discussed with respect to power is efficiency. And that’s the topic I discussed with Harold Blomquist, President and CEO of Helix Semiconductors in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. We started with “what is efficiency” then got down to what an embedded developer needs to know about it.

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The holidays are over, we’ve rung in the New Year, so it must be time for CES, ready or not. The Embedded Insiders (Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis) are definitely ready for the exciting Consumer Electronics Show, which seems to get crazier every year. Maps are downloaded, plans are made, sneakers are purchased. In this edition of our podcast, we give you a glimpse of where our travels throughout CES will take us.

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As the calendar flips to 2019, embedded processor companies continue to ramp up their AI and machine learning offerings. Two leading processor vendors are doubling down on different architectures to capture these sockets, with Intel betting on Movidius vision processors and (formerly Altera's) FPGA technology and NVIDIA continuing to deliver GPU-based solutions. Tune in as the Embedded Insiders recap recent announcements from the two giants, and look ahead at what to expect from AI processors in the future.

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The RISC-V Foundation held its Silicon Valley Summit last week. From sheer numbers alone, the open-source instruction-set architecture (ISA) known as RISC-V is gaining momentum in a pretty big way. And the announcements from the event were aplenty. Two big ones, from Western Digital (WD) and NXP (sort of, through the Open-ISA.org) prove that it’s all about the ecosystem and both vendors are doing their part to make that ecosystem grow into something sustainable. Listen to this week’s Embedded Insiders podcast to hear about these announcements and a few others. But more importantly, hear what these announcements really mean.

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Asset tracking has become an industry on its own thanks to so many new and inexpensive technologies. Whether it’s food, meds, or other valuables, there’s no reason not to know exactly where your shipment is at any given time. In addition, you could know the condition of that asset at any given time. To hear what the options are today, I spoke to Dr. Elaine Rideout, Founder and CEO of Wiser Systems in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion

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The RISC-V ISA has the potential to be a dominant player in the embedded, IoT, and industrial spaces, just to name a few. But before any architecture can take off, it needs a solid ecosystem behind it. The Open-ISA.org initiative, launched today, is taking steps to ensure that that ecosystem starts and stays on the correct path. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I speak to Rob Oshana, VP of Software and R&D at NXP. Rob is fresh off his keynote at the RISC-V Summit, where he made some important announcements regarding that ecosystem.

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Cloud connectivity is pretty straightforward. You contact AMS or Microsoft, or another provider. You download their tools, and you’re done. Well, maybe it’s not so simple, and that’s where the middleware provider comes in to play. Or do they, as the role of middleware can be a confusing one. To better understand where all the pieces fit, I spoke to Hugo Fiennes, CEO of Electric Imp, who happens to be a middleware provider. That’s the basis of this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion.

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Rumors of a shortage of electronics engineers have been circulating for years, but with Fortune 500 technology firms now gobbling up as much engineering talent as possible for IT and enterprise software development, the rumors are as pointed as ever. Dave Hughes, Founder and CEO of software and system engineering firm HCC Embedded, joins the Embedded Insiders to discuss his first-hand experience dealing with the electronics engineering workforce. According to Hughes, the issues go deeper than what young developers are choosing to pursue.

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When we discuss AI, the discussion typically revolves around processing or algorithms. But I was reminded recently that power plays a big part in AI. How is that, you ask? Well, check out this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Ian Mazsa, a Director of Product Management and Business Development at Vicor to understand why you need to be concerned about power if you’re designing for AI.

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The reason you should care about MISRA C is a simple one. It stops you from doing things that the C language allows you to do that you really don’t want to do. Well, maybe not so simple. But that’s the way that Andrew Banks explained it to me in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. Andrew is the Chairman of the MISRA C Working Group and also a Technical Specialist with LDRA. There are some anomalies within C that even savvy developers may not be aware of. Conforming to the spec will make all your troubles go away…at least your development troubles.

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