The Current

Wired for Success: Navigating Interconnect in Embedded Systems

In a world that talks more about wireless, there is still a need for a physical connection for most of our electronicss both for communication and power.  Connectors and cabling remain a critical part of our designs, and that hard physical layer is challenged with needs to be more resilient, more capable, and cost effective.  In this episode, Todd talks with Ryan Petsche-Corporate VP of Interconnect here at Fututre Electronics about the trends that are impacting the area of interconnect in embedded systems.

Silicon Carbide Insight: Powering and Investing in Wide Band Gap

So many applications where traditional silicon based device and wide band gap, silicon carbide and gallium nitride are widely implemented and used in among customers worldwide. In this episode of our Executive Insights series, host Ricardo Collura speaks with Angelo Rao- General Manager for Silicon Carbide and IGBT at ST Micro about the strategy and investment around power, especially in wide band gap devices and  silicon carbide.

Powering the Future: AI & Low-Power Embedded Processors

Artificial Intelligence has changed the server industry over the last few years, and along with Machine Learning it's already making significant inroads into the embedded space with capabilities like voice recognition, object detection, and smart sensing.  In this episode Todd welcomes Daniel Hou, Technical Marketing Engineer at NXP to discuss how technical advances in the processor space can help engineers achieve the ability to design embedded processors in with significant capability but low power.

Securing Smart Systems: Data Confidentiality & Authentication

Making smart inferences on sensor data that's available out there, like vision, while being able to recognize humans and objects or audio, recognizing local voice commands has grown in demand over the last few years. Although smarter systems still have customers very interested, we're also seeing a high demand in securing those systems. In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.

Passive Power: The Backbone of Chip Technology

Without passive components like resistors, capacitors, and inductors even the most advanced chip technology has no path forward. Every circuit ever designed, both simple and complex, requires them and their availability and occasional lack there of has often been the key story of high growth market cycles. In this first episode of Season 5, Todd speaks with Jacques Hing- Corporate VP Passives here at Future Electronics about the technology and the manufacturing advances in this area and how to select passives in projects for long term resilience

The Best of Season 4

This is a wrap on another exciting season of The Current. Throughout this season, we've delved into the forefront of technological advancements, explored innovations, and engaged in stimulating conversations with industry leaders and experts. Thank you to all our guests this season. We look forward to Season 5!

Building Matter

A major goal of so many of our electronic designs is to allow our systems to achieve full autonomy.  Whether we're looking at creating homes that adapt to our lives on the fly, factories that are fully automated with reduced need for personnel, or self driving vehicles, user expectations on our system's capabilities continues to rise.  In this episode, Todd talks with Steve Robbins Principal Field Applications Engineer: Radar, Sensors, & RF, Infineon Sensor Group about how advances in sensor technology are allowing us to keep up in our next generation of products.

Lighting the Way with IR

Image sensors continue to improve in capability, but illuminating the source can often be a challenge as not every application is meant to stay out of the dark.  In situations where light levels may be lower than we'd like, engineers can  utilize light wavelengths like infrared that are invisible to the eye, but perfect for our electronics' vision. In this episode, Todd talks with Russell Willner,  Sr. Marketing Manager for Visualization and Sensing products at ams OSRAM about exporing Infared (IR) and its capabilities in today's designs.

The Power Predicament

Power is one of the most fundamental problems engineers must solve in any design.  Maximizing efficiency, minimizing size, and keeping costs and design complexity low becomes more strident when dealing with AC to DC power conversion where many off the shelf power supplies can greatly simplify designs. In this episode, Todd talks with Doug Bailey, VP of Marketing at Power Integrations on whether there is still a place for designing custom AC/DC supplies, and what would be the best path for engineers.

The FPGA Evolution

Field Programmable Gate Arrays have been critical to our designs as engineers where speed of execution is critical, parallel operation is required, and the ability to reconfigure hardware needs to be available.  FPGA technology has been a backbone of communication infrastructure, military applications, and video and signal processing that has made our world what it is today. In this episode, Todd speaks with our own Richard Interrante Director of Future Intelligent Solutions on how the technology will continue to evolve.