Silicon Labs: Talking Tech

This episode is the third in a series that will cover the Year Ahead, (2021) for different markets and applications in the IoT.

In this podcast, Kyle Dando looks at the developing needs and technologies addressing these markets. In this episode Kyle talks to Johan Pedersen, marketing manager for the Smart Home and Consumer group. 

Find out how alliances, security and long range are driving new designs.

What are 3 driving factors

• How are alliances involved in decision making
• Why products need security
• Covid / SIP increasing Portable Medical in the home

In a recent press release, Silicon Labs and Edge Impulse announced a partnership around the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on the Silicon Labs portfolio of low power IoT MCU and Wireless devices.

In this podcast, Kyle Dando talks to Zach Shelby, one of the founders of Edge Impulse to get a closer understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

https://www.tinyml.org/summit2021/

Designing a robust 24 V digital output channel means planning for the unknown. Unknown loads attached to the channel. Unknown faults on the channel that occur at unknown times and for unknown durations.

In this podcast Isaac Sanchez talks to Asa Kirby, Sr. Product Manager for Isolation, considers various types of protection required to handle these unknowns.  Travis Lenz, Applications Engineer from the Isolation & Power group, then gives a technical discussion on Silicon Labs’ novel approach the handle these challenges with the Si834x Isolated Smart Switch.

Power Hour Webinar Series: https://www.silabs.com/about-us/events/power-webinar-series

In this podcast Kyle Dando chats to Tiago Monte who is helping release the new IoT developer experience for Silicon Labs.

At the recent virtual conference 'WorksWith', Silicon Labs was joined by the ioXt Alliance to introduce the new regulatory requirements coming in to help protect IoT devices from those with malicious intent.

In this podcast Kyle Dando chats to Brad Ree, CTO for the ioXt and former security advisor to the Zigbee Alliance. Brad talks to customer confidence and about the background associated with a number of recent attacks.

Useful Links:

The full Works With training course can be also be found at: 

• https://workswith.silabs.com/agenda/session/286424

and further information at:

• www.ioxtalliance.org 
• http://www.silabs.com/security

Covid is here and it's on everyone's mind, engineers around the world are looking for solutions.

In this second podcast, focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic, Kyle Dando chats to David Hoover, VP Advanced Technology at Connected Development.

David's company helps with embedded wireless design and certification services but is also owned by TTI, a major employer with warehousing properties all over the world. TTI asked David for a custom solution to detect employee temperature and to simplify the new processes.

Works With Session: https://workswith.silabs.com/agenda/session/286428

Open Source Details: https://www.semiconductorstore.com/page/open-source-temp-sensor/4259

Contact: www.connecteddev.com

Covid is here and it's on everyone's mind, engineers around the world are looking for solutions.

In this podcast Kyle Dando chats to Daniel Misoph, a Senior Field Applications Engineer for Silicon Labs and based in Germany.

Daniel presents concepts that focus on air quality as an indicator in the quest to protect oneself against Covid. Daniel's example runs on the Thunderboard Sense 2 and his code examples are available for Simplicity Studio v5.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnl9g6jzijtbkhp/app.c?dl=0

At the recent virtual conference 'WorksWith', a number of Silicon Labs engineers presented a number of useful developer tools.

In this podcast Kyle Dando chats to Cristian Cortiga and Scott Townsend about a Battery Life Calculator that may help developers prolong battery life in IoT devices.

The full WorksWith session on the Battery Life Calculator is also available on-demand at: 

https://workswith.silabs.com/agenda/session/286421

Battery Life Calculator Spreadsheet