Wide-bandgap semiconductors like silicon carbide (SiC) have changed the landscape of electronics and have fomented a revolution in power conversion. In this podcast, we talk to Adam Barkley, VP, Power Technology Development at Wolfspeed, about the state of the industry in silicon carbide and where the industry is going.

We can simulate everything very exactly, but when it comes to that analog interface between the system and reality, you must be very careful because sometimes things don’t behave in the analog realm the way they’re predicted to. In this episode, we talk to Dermot O’Shea, CEO of Taoglas, about the state of the cloud and IoT and the challenges in developing products to operate well within it.

The world of test and measurement is getting more complex and challenging in many ways. There are multiple factors impacting the T&M industry, from materials to new topologies to smaller form factors with even higher levels of integration and power density. In this episode, we talk to the CEO of Liquid Instruments, Daniel Shaddock, about the current situation in the test and measurement industry and the company’s software-defined test solutions.

Spiking neural networks (SNN), also known as neuromorphic computing, are one way to implement artificial intelligence/machine learning models. It has significant advantages over the more popular digital deep neural networks (DNN) like convolutional neural networks (CNN), including very low power operation. Innatera’s CEO, Sumeet Kumar, taks about how the company’s new, ultra low power microcontroller can provide always-on (AON) SNN support in battery power- or energy harvesting-based applications.

Siemens provides a wide range of design tools for developing hardware and software including ones targeted at software defined vehicles (SDVs). In this episode, David Fritz, Vice President of Hybrid and Virtual Systems at Siemens, talks about SDV and the need for advanced tools and simulation support to meet the safety requirements while providing the functionality of higher SAE levels.

Piezoelectric-based MEMS have been used for sensors, but they can also be used as actuators to do things like move air and fluids. One thing that can be done is to implement a tiny speaker using this technology. In this episode, xMEMS Labs’ Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Mike Housholder, talks about his company’s device. You can also watch the demos in our video, Making MEMS Move Air and Fluids for Fun and Cooling.

This is the first of a series of Inside Electronic podcasts addressing time sensitive networking (TSN). TSN is a set of IEEE 802.1 standards managed by the TSN Task Group. In this episode, Dave Cavalcanti, Principal Engineer at the Edge Computing Group at Intel and President of Avnu Alliance. He talks about TSN in general as well as important issues like interoperability that this common standard provides.

Supporting artificial intelligence’s (AI) insatiable need for compute and storage is why SNIA put together the Storage.AI project. This webinar introduces the project’s goals and the standards it will encompass.  Storage.AI will help deliver efficient data services related to AI workloads. How AI workloads utilize storage impacts cost, power, and performance. This discussion touches on the urgent problems in data services, especially around how storage interacts with compute.

The plethora of smart, connected devices has created a variety of new opportunities for how we work, live, and interact, but has also introduced data privacy and security risks. Security has been an issue in society ever since people had things of value to protect, and finally, most people now recognize the critical need for safety in the Internet and cybersecurity. In this episode, we talk to Denis Noël, Director & Head of Product Marketing, Secure Connected Edge, NXP, about security in the Cloud and IoT.

Our wireless world is an integral part of life today, with almost every powered device being made now smarter and more connected than ever before. However, for all the amazing functionality provided by these advanced embedded systems and software, without the right antenna, nothing works well, if at all. In this episode, we talk to Aitor Moreno, Cloud Product Manager at Ignion, about advanced antenna design and tools.

There are many things in our lives that we have created that are important to our very ability to function as a society, and vehicles are among those things. The invention of the car literally changed society almost overnight, and every advance in society since has manifested itself in the automotive world, from the radio to the tape deck to satellite navigation to the Cloud and IoT. In this episode, we talk to Suraj Gajendra, Vice President - Products & Software Solutions. Automotive Business at Arm, about the trends and technologies driving the development of automotive systems today.

Electronic Design’s William Wong talks with Renesas’ Vice President and Head of Customer Success and Digital Industries at Renesas about their new web-based, hardware/software design tool, Renesas 365. Renesas 365 is designed to link different design groups as systems develop from a functional model to hardware to software that runs on the system. It provides the scaffolding to quickly design and build a system including support for hardware development platforms that incorporate Renesas silicon.

Our society is continuing to adopt more connectivity in products and solutions, and these systems are expanding the Cloud and IoT in leaps and bounds. Edge computing, created to address bandwidth and latency issues in Cloud-based systems, is rapidly being enhanced by the addition of AI. In this episode, we talk to Axel Stoermann, Chief Technology Officer & VP at KIOXIA Europe, about his observations of the industry.

The electronic design industry is always in a pattern of development and re-development as it forges into the future. But what about the communities involved? There are two sides to that story: the customers in the community, who use the products and services created, and the municipalities and governments looking for investment and development. In this episode, we talk to Don Cunningham, President and CEO of Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, about the challenges and opportunities communities face in an evolving industrial environment.

Our connected and intelligent world is based on advanced embedded systems that are in a state of disruptive evolution and upward migration. In this podcast, we sit down with Jim Beneke, who is with Tria, an Avnet company. Tria develops embedded compute solutions and was formerly MSC Technologies.

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is middleware that can be used for almost any type of robotic platform including self-driving cars. ROS is an open-source system hosted at ROS.org. It runs a top conventional operating systems like Linux and Windows and has been used in many robotic applications. In this episode of Inside Electronics, we talk with Jan Becker, CEO at Apex.ai, about ROS and how it is being used in automotive applications including issues related to certification.

Today’s cloud is a polylingual, multi-spectral, multiple-methodology ecosystem, meaning that devices must become more intelligent to encompass it and operate in an optimal fashion. Today, one must have a wireless strategy for Wi-Fi, public cellular, private cellular, and IoT wireless backhaul. Companies like Nextivity offer solutions that enable wireless functionality for voice and data, with systems that are network safe and have a no-noise guarantee.

Residential energy storage is undergoing rapid innovation, driven by the need for efficient solar energy utilization and dynamic grid participation. Texas Instruments’ Henrik Magnesson emphasizes that as feed-in tariffs decline and market-driven energy pricing becomes prevalent, homeowners will increasingly turn to battery energy storage systems (ESS) to store excess solar generation for use during peak demand, to charge EVs, or to exploit profitable energy arbitrage opportunities.

This first, of a two part series, Inside Electronics podcast, guest-hosted by technology editor Andy Turudic of Electronic Design, features Henrik Mannesson, General Manager of Grid Infrastructure and Power Delivery Industrial Systems at Texas Instruments (TI), discussing the evolving landscape of energy infrastructure with a focus on the pivotal role of semiconductors in the renewable energy transition.

Not every microcontroller can handle artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) chores. Simplifying the models is one way to squeeze algorithms into a more compact embedded compute engine. Another way is to pair it with an AI accelerator like Femtosense’s Sparse Processing Unit (SPU) SPU-001 and take advantage of sparsity in AI/ML models. In this episode, Sam Fok, CEO at Femtosense, talks about AI/ML on the edge, the company’s dual sparsity design, and how the small, low power SPU-001 can augment a host processor.