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DevTalk with Rich and Vin
The DevTalk with Rich and Vin podcast features Rich Nass, EVP of Embedded Computing Design, and Vin D’Agostino, veteran embedded systems designer. Each episode tackles a different aspect of embedded system design, from the hardware to the software to the tools. It’ll also look at some higher level market issues, but only as it impacts the engineer/developer. Topics covered include artificial intelligence, embedded systems, machine learning, industrial automation and much more.
Episodes
20 episodes
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Rust
You likely have heard of the Rust programming language, known for its safety features. But, like me, you may not know its details, and frankly, why you should be considering it for your next design. For those reasons, Rich and Vin invited Jonat...
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Reverse Engineering
Just about everybody in the engineering space has reverse-engineered a product at some point. It might have been for professional reasons, like seeing how a competitor is attacking a problem or simply seeing how they engineered a product. Or it...
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22:56
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Embedded FPGAs with Achronix
Theoretically, you can do whatever functions you require in hardware or software. The most efficient way to complete those functions is with the proper mix of hardware and software. The important question is how you determine what gets implemen...
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26:06
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Steve Sanghi
Most people in our embedded industry are familiar with Steve Sanghi, who has been the CEO of Microchip for more than thirty years. Steve took over the company in its not-so-successful early days and brought it to the great heights we know today...
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31:48
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Maher Matta, President, Infineon Americas
Maher Matta, the President of the Americas division of Infineon Technologies agreed to join Rich and Vin on this episode of the podcast. The audience will likely relate to the route taken by Maher, as he ...
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24:38
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Buckle Your Seatbelt, We’re Going to Mars
The space program has come quite far in the last decade when it comes to sending people to Mars and building a colony there. If you’re wondering what it would take to accomplish that, check out the book
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24:34
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Requirements-Management Tools
As the complexity of our embedded systems has exploded, particularly in the automotive space, a requirements-management tool has moved into the “must-have” category. With the volume of people, the humongous code base, and the geographic...
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23:09
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Test Early and Often
Engineers know how important it is to test their prototypes. What they don’t seem to get is that the testing process needs to start at the beginning of the design process, not at the end. And testing must continue all the way through the entire...
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14:59
DevTalk with Rich and Vin (and SiLabs CEO)
In this episode of DevTalk with Rich (Nass) and Vin (D’Agostino), Matt Johnson, the CEO of Silicon Labs joins us. It’s a lively discussion, starting in rural Maine, and ending with “Should engineers be conc...
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32:37
DevTalk with Rich and Vin (and Digi CEO)
Welcome to a slightly different version of our DevTalk with Rich and Vin podcast. In addition to doing our traditional tech talks, which you’ve clearly told us that you enjoy, we will be producing discussions with CEOs. But we won’t be going th...
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21:06
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Chiplets
Chiplets are quite in vogue these days. But are they the solution to all your problems? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t understand what they are, how they work, and how you can implement them in your design. Check out this ins...
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11:48
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: What Was Supposed to Happen in 2023 That Didn’t
This is the time of year for predictions: What do you think will happen in 2024? As you might expect, Rich and Vin take a different approach. They look at the things that were predicted for 2023, but didn’t actually pan out. Is AI ...
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12:10
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: FPGAs for the Midrange Do Exist
In the golden era of electrical engineering, when yours truly was a budding designer, we worked with a processor, like an 8051 or an 8085, and we wrote some code to go with it. Programmable log? It existed, but those things were too darn expens...
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18:19
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Do Engineers Understand the Basics of Engineering?
When content gets posted to Embedded Computing Design that’s latest “The Basics of …” or “XYZ 101,” the content usually gets tons of page views. I always wondered why that was the case. Are our engineers not as knowledgeable as we think? Are th...
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15:58
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Practical Applications For AI
Are you wondering what would be considered a practical application for AI at the endpoint (the place where the data is captured)? Well, you’re in luck, because Rich is moderating a panel at
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12:23
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Myth: AI Is an Application. Verdict: False
Seemingly, if you've read any news report that touches on the technology sector, there’s some mention of artificial intelligence. But too often, we hear people talking about AI as an application, and that’s wrong, just like the IoT is not an ap...
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11:34
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Adding AI to the HVAC Specialist’s Toolbelt
Whether you’re aware of it or not. AI is pervading many of our “traditional” applications, such as HVAC. Adding some smarts to this equipment allows the HVAC system to perform longer and more efficiently, resulting in a better user experience a...
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13:22
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Is AI the Greatest Achievement of Our Lifetime?
AI seems to be omni-present. It’s in the news, it’s in our classrooms, and it’s certainly in our engineering labs. But are we spending too much time discussing the technology that’s the current “new thing,” or is it really the greatest technolo...
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12:05
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: How and Where to Begin Your AI Design
While Rich and Vin usually believe they all the answers to all the design-related questions, that may not always be the case. For example, when the question of where to begin your AI-based design came up, the “experts” felt in was prudent to br...
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13:44
DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Assessing the AI/ML Ecosystem
AI and machine learning are relatively new technologies in the embedded space. And the only way an application space can grow is by having a robust ecosystem. Some may argue that such an ecosystem already exists for AI, while others say that de...
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