My guest this week is long-time friend of the show Ethan Plotkin, CEO of GDCA. Ethan and I chat all about proactive obsolescence management. We discuss the biggest challenges in terms of obsolescence for OEMS, the benefits of working with legacy equipment manufacturers and the ramifications of negative and positive case studies for obsolescence management.…

My podcast guest this week is Alex Iuorio from Avnet. Alex and I discuss Avnet’s recent Insights Survey including the motivation to create this survey, the skills needed to incorporate AI capabilities into our designs, and the AI related engineering concerns garnered from this survey. Also this week, I explore how mushrooms and coffee grounds can be used as 3D printing material and could be used as a resilient, fully compostable alternative to plastics.…

We’re talking about test and measurement in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! My guest is Ritu Favre - President of Emerson Test & Measurement. Ritu and I explore the biggest trends in test and measurement today, the challenges of creating tests for systems newly incorporating AI into their designs, and what advice Ritu would give to engineers just starting off their careers.…

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, I discuss design and verification with Tom Fitzpatrick - General Chair of DVCon 2025. Tom and I explore this year’s expo and conference, the motivation behind the creation of the second DVCon keynote, the details of the Poster Warrior session and why Tom is especially excited about this year’s conference. I also check out new magnetic microrobots developed by researchers in South Korea that work together like ants to achieve monumental feats.…

My podcast guest this week is longtime friend of the show Matt Burns from Samtec! Matt and I chat about the trends driving the adoption of high performance, small form factor open standard SoMs. We also discuss the details of the PCI Express 7 specification and the newest endeavors being developed by the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies.…

My podcast guest this week is Eitan Elkin, director of marketing at Prisma Photonics. Eitan and I discuss how optical fiber sensing can make a huge impact in infrastructure monitoring. We explore the details of the solution at the heart of Prisma Photonics: Hyper-Scan Fiber-Sensing, the applications that could take advantage of this technology including extreme weather events and detecting wildfires in real-time, and where Eitan sees this innovative technology headed in the future.…

My guest this week is Ralph Grundler from Aitech and we are chatting all about OpenVPX in space! Ralph and I discuss the increasing role that open standards are playing in space applications, how OpenVPX supports a systems-based approach for these types of designs, and how OpenVPX can also be used to support a variety of AI applications in space.…

Device security and cryptography takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! My guest is Shahram Mossayebi, Founder & CEO at Crypto Quantique. Shahram and I chat about how Shahram’s expertise in academia and IoT security vulnerabilities encouraged the creation of Crypto Quantique, the variety of device and IC security solutions offered by Crypto Quantique and how their software-based IoT security platform called QuarkLink helps help developers ensure compliance with connected device legislation.…

We are jumping head first into the world of AI to start 2025! My guest this week is Lucas Garcia, Principal Product Manager for Deep Learning at MathWorks. Lucas and I discuss the biggest challenges surrounding generative AI, the need for verification and validation for AI, the trends surrounding AI-based reduced order models and how AI can transform the world of control design.…

My guest this week is David Moore, CEO of Pragmatic Semiconductor. David and I discuss the details of Pragmatic Semi’s ultra-low-cost, ultra-thin, flexible integrated circuits called FlexICs. We explore how these thin film ICs will revolutionize the semiconductor industry, the details of Pragmatic Semiconductor’s environmentally friendly manufacturing process and what their Fab-in-a-Box is all about.…

AI-based anomaly detection takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! My guest is Rachel Johnson from MathWorks and we explore how AI can work in tandem with engineers to reduce the incidence of defects and optimize maintenance schedules and the steps involved in designing and deploying an AI-based anomaly detection system; from conceptualization and data gathering to deployment and integration.…

My podcast guest this week is Andy Nightingale, Vice President Product Management & Marketing at Arteris. Andy and I chat about the key challenge faced by SoC designers when building NoC interconnects for AI based designs, the details of NoC interconnect IP soft tiling and some real world examples of AI based designs that benefit from NoC IP soft tiling. Also this week, I check out how odor detection by the silkworm moth could improve localization technologies in robotics.…

My guest this week is Adam Tilton, co-founder and CEO of Driver! Adam and I discuss how Driver’s new AI-powered platform can help you navigate code, organize your assets and sync codebases with ease. We also investigate the benefits of automated updates, unified search and language specialization included in their platform and the role that reusable templates play in Driver’s AI-powered platform.…

My podcast guests this week are Jack Ferrari and Johanna Pingel from MathWorks! We discuss the trends and technologies driving the adoption of edge AI applications, the common challenges associated with edge AI and the roles that the maintenance and upkeep of machine learning models, over the air updates, and on-device training will play for the future of edge AI applications.…

I am happy to welcome Brandon Bourn from Zenode to my podcast this week! Brandon and I discuss how monotonous repetitive tasks and hardware design pain points motivated the creation of their platform, how large language models can be utilized to solve these issues, and how Zenode is looking to revolutionize hardware design with their new electronic component search engine. Also this week, I check out a new kind of biohybrid robot developed by Cornell University that is controlled by… mushrooms. (Yep, you read that right - mushrooms!)…