Embedded Executive Podcast

Reliability is a subjective feature of a product. And we’ve come to accept certain levels for products that are frankly, below what they should be. One example is waterproofing. The technology is available today to protect our products, but for various reasons, we give in to sub-par products. In this week’s week’s Embedded Executives podcast, I discuss this topic with Stephen Gold, the Chief Commercial Officer for HZO.

Inferencing is a hot topic. Let’s start with “what is inferencing?” Then, how do you benchmark inferencing? That’s the topic du jour in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, with guest Geoff Tate is CEO and co-founder of Flex Logic. We also get into whether some vendors are trying to rig the system.

Test tools can be expensive; in some case, very expensive. But if your needs don’t extend to the leading edge, you may find that there are some much lower cost tools available. That’s an area that Digilent specializes in. And according to Steve Johnson, Digilent’s President and General Manager in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, you may be surprised that most of your needs will be covered.

Security has been top of mind for a long time, long enough that someone should be doing something about it. Most experts will tell you that the industry is doing something about it, and more than just something. In this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, I discussed this topic with Mike Nicholson, Embedded Software/Systems Architect, MultiTech. While chatting, Mike revealed that MultiTech is sponsoring a Hackathon, where they are encouraging the community to into the company’s latest IoT development gateway product, the Conduit 300. Anyone that’s able to hack in will win some big prizes.

Everyone wants their personal device to run longer on a charge. While many of the processor vendors have made incremental improvements, Ambiq Micro seems to have turned the equation on its head, running at performance levels that are more than adequate, but consume far less power. Coming on as a repeat guest of our Embedded Executives podcast to provide an update on the technology is Scott Hanson, Founder and CTO of Ambiq Micro.

Yup, 5G is still two or three quarters away. Have you heard that before? I know I have. But more importantly, when will it become mainstream in the industrial sector, where things tend to take far longer, for good reasons. This is the first of many questions I asked of Harald Remmert, the Senior Director of Research and Innovation at Digi International in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

The electrification of the automobile is an amazing phenomenon. Things that were in the super luxury cars a few years ago are now mainstream. To understand what’s next in the automobile, I had a conversation with Joseph Notaro the Vice President of Worldwide Automotive Strategy and Business Development for On Semiconductor in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

MultiTech is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. That’s quite an achievement in our space, where vendors so often get swallowed up by larger vendors or they simply go away. I had the opportunity to discuss this milestone with Matt Sharma, whose dad started the company 50 years ago. In this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, Matt and I discussed what it takes to keep a company vibrant for such a long time.

Like the case with many software products, there are a host of free design tools available for things like GUI development. Crank Software is one vendor that sells such tools. So the obvious question for me was, why should I pay for tools if I can get them for free? This was the first of many questions I asked of Jason Clarke, the founder and vice president of Crank Software in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Open control systems and open architectures aren’t the mainstream in the industrial sector, but maybe they should be. That’s the opinion of Yuri Chamarelli, a Lead Product Specialist at Phoenix Contact in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. Hear the reasons why, and see if you agree.