Embedded Executive Podcast
Each week, Embedded Computing Design’s EVP Rich Nass speaks to an executive in the embedded industry to understand what’s happening with the latest products, standards, and trends. The frank discussions reveal the real, behind the scenes issues, so the design community knows what’s coming down the pike. Topics covered in artificial intelligence, machine learning, embedded systems, internet of things, industrial automation, automotive applications, open source and more.
Episodes
339 episodes
Embedded Executive: Are IoT Device Deployments Slowing Down? | Digi
There are lots of different ways that IoT devices can communicate. In some instances, that’s a good thing. But in other cases, it’s hindering the growth of IoT devices. And that’s a problem, at least according to Mike Rohrmoser, a Vice Presiden...
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Embedded Executive: The CSA Ushers in ZigBee 4.0 | CSA
There’s no moss gathering under the Connectivity Stands Alliance, as the group recently announced the latest rev of the ZigBee spec, version 4.0. This new version enhances the security efforts from the previou...
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Embedded Executive: When Candidates Aren't Who They Claim | Webster
You’re likely aware of many of the great things AI can do for you. And I’m guessing you’ve seen many of the nefarious things it can be used for. I was just brought up to speed on one of the latter items, and it’s something you should be aware o...
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Embedded Executive: RISC-V Works Great At Low Power Levels, Too | Upbeat Technology
Most of the RISC-V offerings that I’ve seen have been pushing very high performance, with lots of cores and lots of chips. Upbeat Technology is taking a different tack by looking at very low power levels. In my discussion with Jerry...
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Embedded Executive: Commercial RTOS Goes Open Source | Micro Digital
It’s not the first time this has occurred, but it is the latest—a previously commercial real-time operating system is now being offered as open source. In this case, it’s SMX from
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Embedded Executive: Get All Your AI In One Place | Analog Devices
There are lots of semiconductor vendors that do a great job of providing AI hardware. But unfortunately, for many of them, their offerings end there, requiring developers to source software and tools from multiple sources. It’s no secret that d...
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Embedded Executive: Matter Certification Just Got Easier | CSA
Every IoT device should comply with the Connectivity Standard Alliance (CSA) Matter standard, but we know that’s not the case. For some developers, doing...
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Embedded Executive: Tune Your Compiler for ADAS | Solid Sands
Compilers and ADAS aren’t often used in the same sentence. For developers, that anomaly can represent a design challenge, as compilers in general are not designed for this particular application, which also happens to be at the top of the safet...
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Embedded Executive: AI At the Endpoint | EMASS
AI at the endpoint gets yet another boost from EMASS, a fabless semiconductor company that recently emerged from stealth mode. Having your processing at the endpoint presents a few significant challenges, namely the amount of proces...
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Embedded Executive: The Same Level of Security Is Needed Whether You Have One Device or Millions | Infineon and CommScope
No matter what your end device is, be it a light bulb or a driver’s license, it needs to be secure. I don’t think we need to go through the reasons why it needs to be secure. How you do that is becoming increasingly more difficult. And you may ...
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Embedded Executive: Move AI to the Endpoint | Ambiq
AI is a technology that generally requires a significant amount of power and high compute performance. Hence, it’s typically relegated to the Cloud or to an Edge-based computer.Performing AI at the endpoint has not been feasible for thos...
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Embedded Executive: Manual Vs. Automated Code Generation | TeleCANesis
We’ve done podcasts in the past that discussed automating your code documentation. But we haven’t touched much on automating the code generation itself until now. On this week’s
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Embedded Executive: AI Is Hard. It’s OK To Ask For Help | CEVA
Designing a device that incorporates AI can be daunting, for a good reason—it’s very complex. When you push that design out to the Edge, it brings in even more challenges, both on the hardware and software sides of the equation. To ...
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Embedded Executive: How Secure is Secure Enough | Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs recently announced an MCU that has achieved the highest level of security possible to date, which is PSA Level 4. The questions you may be asking are, “What does that mean, and is this something I need to understand?” T...
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Embedded Executive: Quantum Cryptography Must Be Part of Your Vocabulary | Infineon
We’re in the era of quantum computing. That brings with it a lot of great things. But at the same time, it brings some not so good things. Once again, we’re in a race to stay ahead of the bad guys to keep our systems secure. Folks l...
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Embedded Executive: Minimize Power in Today’s Data Centers | Point2 Technology
The boom coming from AI is requiring data centers to be built as fast as we can build them. To that end, there is a lot of discussion about the power that’s needed to drive these data centers. What there’s not a lot of discussion about are the ...
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Embedded Executive: Thermal Issues Continue to Propagate | Ventiva
For as long as we’ve been designing embedded computers and consumer electronics, we’ve had a problem figuring out how to handle the heat that’s created. Known as thermal management, the problem seems omnipresent as systems become more compact, ...
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Embedded Executive: Proper Antenna Design Can Make or Break Your Product | Taoglas
While it may not be as intimidating as it once was, antenna design can still be a make-or-break aspect of your end product. Make the antenna too big, and the end users balk. Make the antenna too small, and the device won’t function properly (an...
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Embedded Executive: TSMC Ends Its GaN Run | Infineon
TSMC recently announced its exit from the GaN space. Well, maybe “announced” is the wrong word, but they did let customers know that they will not be producing GaN devices going forward. Details are still coming out, so we don’t kno...
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Embedded Executive: Where To Place the Compute In a Car | NXP
Compute in the automobile is (again) moving toward consolidation and away from the discrete nature of multiple processors around the vehicle. Is this a trend that’s going to stick? I guess it depends on who you ask. In this case, I ...
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Embedded Executive: Your Devices Must Be Secure For a Long Time | Northern.tech
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a regulation designed to enhance cybersecurity for products mainly sold in Europe. It establishes common cybersecurity standards for hardware and software, requiring manufacturers to build security into their p...
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Embedded Executive: AI Drives Autonomous Buses | Mozee
While most autonomous vehicle focus is on the automobile, Mozee is going in a slightly different direction, no pun intended. Mozee is focused on autonomous buses, or vehicles that transport large number...
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Embedded Executive: AI and Space Travel | EdgeCortix
Two technologies seem to be barreling ahead at a rapid pace, and there is likely a convergence coming shortly, if it hasn’t already occurred. I’m referring to space travel and artificial intelligence. But in my limited knowledge, there appears ...
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Embedded Executive: Acquisition Eases AI/ML Into Wearables | Nordic Semiconductor
Designing wearables with integrated AI /ML just got one step easier with Nordic Semiconductor’s acquisiti...
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Embedded Executive: Going From Prototype to Large-Scale Production | Sixfab
The line between a maker and a maker pro is quite fuzzy. In my opinion, the maker wants to build one of something, and likely won’t want to build more than one. The maker pro starts out building one, but knows somewhere down the line that the p...
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