Inside Electronics

Putting Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) into Products

Industrial automation is getting real (time) with time sensitive networking (TSN). This open standard delivers determinism to Ethernet control networks and it works with wireless networks as well.
Senior Content Director Bill Wong talks with Tom Burke, Global Strategic Advisor, CC-Link Partner Association (CPLA) about how TSN works and why it is so important to industrial automation applications. 

Making Sense of the Maker Movement

The Maker Movement is a relatively new phenomenon in society...or is it? The desire to understand technology and create things is a drive that has existed in people since the first devices were created. We sit down with Electronic Design editors Andy Turudic and Cabe Atwell for a discussion about the Maker Movement, Tinkerers, and engineering. 

Analog ASIC Course Tapes Out Real Silicon to TI's Advanced 300mm Fa

In this episode, Andy Turudic talks with Georgia Tech’s Professor Shaolan Li about their ECE department’s new analog IC design course where close to a dozen teams of three undergrad and one graduate student are fully hands-on designing real silicon, from schematic through tapeout, with resumption of the course to perform functional verification in a returning semester, after fabrication on a 300mm wafer by Texas Instruments. 

Addressing the Challenges in Advanced Logic Semiconductor Manufacturing

Making logic chips has never been an easy task, and it is one that has been further challenged by advances in scaling as well as advanced topologies like chiplets. From the race to 2nm-foundry creation for next-generation wafer development and the related issues of packaging, engineers must develop new solutions. In this episode, we talk to Henri Richard, GM and president of Rapidus Design Solutions, about the state of the art and the solutions his company is developing. 

Optical Chiplet Interconnect Promises to Accelerate Demanding Computing Applications

The growth in high-performance computing and AI in advanced chip architectures is creating issues when it comes to intra-chip data management, especially as they migrate to chiplet-based topologies. Addressing this chip-level issue, Avicena  announced its scalable LightBundle chiplet interconnect solution, offering ultra-high density die-to-die connections with a multi-Tbps/mm shoreline bandwidth density at sub-pJ/bit energy efficiency. In this podcast we talk to Bardia Pezeshki, Founder and CEO of Avicena, about the issues of intra-chip data management and his company’s solution.

Developing Advanced Infrastructures for Data Center and AI SoC Applications

The increasing demand for high-performance computing for next-generation AI and advanced data centers is putting pressure on designers to field the latest data-management solutions. Addressing this demand, Rambus recently unveiled an updated PCI Express 7.0 IP portfolio, encompassing a comprehensive suite of IP solutions, as well as a controller IP for GDDR7 to allow for greater speeds and bandwidths to support generative AI workloads.
These applications consume memory at an unprecedented pace, and the new controller IP will unlock more memory for AI and high-performance computing applications, particularly in inferencing and at the network’s edge. In this podcast we talk with Lou Ternullo, Senior Director of IP Solutions at Rambus, about how the GenAI boom is pushing new advancements in innovations in the memory space.

Wi-Fi HaLow Offers Advanced Low-Power Connectivity to IoT Products

Addressing the need for low-power high-reliability connectivity in IoT solutions, Wi-Fi HaLow promises extended ranges, improved penetration capabilities, extended battery life, enhanced device density, higher level of security, and elevated data throughput in IoT scenarios. The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA)  recently announced the Wi-Fi HaLow for IoT program has moved into a new phase, testing 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLow solutions in real-world use cases, including a range of applications including smart home, smart city, building automation, smart retail, industrial IoT, and agriculture technology.
Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, talks about the trails and the overall IoT marketplace. 

The Evolution of AI from Buzzword to Reality

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is evolving from a hot topic and buzzword to a real set of commercial solutions for business, industrial, medical, military, and consumer applications. The challenge in developing AI and Machine Learning (ML) solutions range from determining what kind of AI methodology should be implemented to the training  and deploying AI- and ML-based solutions. Sam Fok, CEO of Femtosense, a company working on using Sparse AI for the real-time Edge applications, talks about the future of this technology.

Product Design in a World of Advanced Solutions

Creating products today is a challenging task, and not only because of the demands of the application. The sheer number of interrelated subsystems and the variety of core technologies involved make creating a product a task of integration and functionality convergence. In this podcast, we talk to John Leavitt, a Human Centered Designer and Product Developer at Intelligent Product Solutions, a product design and engineering services company that provides concepts for industrial design, mechanical engineering, embedded software, and systems architecture for companies developing products.

Accelerating AI Applications with Advanced Information Management

The expansion of AI in the latest application spaces is creating problems at the board and chip level, as over 90% of the power consumption in AI workloads is from the movement of data. The ability to shorten data paths by moving the compute element closer to where the data is stored can reduce power consumption significantly.
This would also enable an unprecedented increase in compute density. In this podcast we talk to Robert Beachler, Vice President of Product at Untether AI, a company launched with the goal of addressing the major compute and efficiency bottleneck, memory access and data management.