The Current

Why Matter, matters

Smart technology has become an expectation in electronic devices for almost all applications. However, the holy grail of interoperability among different smart home products remains a challenge. With the industry discussing adoption of the Matter protocol to fix this problem, engineers now have to begin to understand this exciting new open-source protocol and how to use it in their designs.

Microcontroller vs Microprocessor: Which is Better?

Embedded systems find themselves in many applications today, where low power and small size are requirements, along with the ability to perform complex tasks like vision or machine learning, are important. In this episode, Todd speaks to Rick Dudley, Business Development Manager at Microchip about how engineers can make the choice to move from a microcontroller to a microprocessor for their applications. Also, learn how we can take advantage of their performance capabilities for these advanced tasks without sacrificing end product size or battery life.

Future Electronics at Embedded World

The Embedded World conference presents the latest, future-oriented trends from each embedded discipline, where experts gather to discuss complex questions of system design. Future Electronics a hub for knowledge transfer and a key player in the dialogue among embedded systems developers, international specialists, and decision makers. In this episode, Todd speaks to Lazina Rahman, Future Electronics Technical Engineer and host of Techventures who is on location at the conference.

Full Engineering designs with Future Electronics

Many companies are finding their engineering staff overloaded with sustaining ongoing designs. In some cases, a company will have an exciting idea for an embedded hardware platform, but an engineering staff with an expertise geared towards software or mechanical design. What if you could leverage a partners to design, test and show off a application idea? Electronics distribution like Future Electronics' Montreal Design Center can offer a higher level of service to meet those needs. In this episode Todd speaks to Martin Bernier, Director of the System Design Center the about how companies can partner with Future for their full engineering designs.
 

Wide Bandgap to Maximize Power

Maximizing the power efficiency of our designs has become critical as more systems get their energy from battery arrays, and as we look to high power electronics to supplant traditional combustion based systems. In this episode, Todd speaks with Doug Bailey Power Integrations Vice President of Marketing and Applications about wide bandgap technologies and trying to demystify when they should be used in system designs.

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The ”Vision” of Image Sensors and FGPAs

Adding embedded vision into designs requires many decisions to be made in the overall architecture. With the rise of CMOS imaging sensors engineers have to an FPGA or a Processor is right to handle the complex application layer to turn our designs into viable products. In this episode, Todd Baker speaks to Future's own Abhishek Gadgi, Image Sensor Specialist Engineer about machine learning and AI in our applications, what types of vision sensors we should be using and what should constitute the "brains" of our system to maximize it's capabilities.

The Evolution of 5G Design

With the rollout of 5G Cellular technology, the capabilities of our wireless networks continues to expand. Designing these advanced communications networks requires enormous engineering capability including special requirements for our passives and electromechanical devices within the design to make it all function. In this episode, Todd Baker speaks with Brian Donavan and Jeff Katz from Panasonic about the key technologies on the periphery of 5G designs.

The Power of Environmental Sensors

It is now an expectation for connected systems to be intelligent enough to understand the surrounding environment and make decisions on behalf of their users with minimal or no intervention. That has required a great deal of innovation in the environmental sensor space, along with increased accuracy and the ability in our embedded systems to fuse data from multiple sources to get our systems to react in real time. In this episode, Todd Baker discusses the topic with Dr. Richard Fix, Portfolio and Product Manager at Bosch Sensortec about their sensing solutions and how they can help accelerate the development of innovative IoT applications.

Wireless Technology to Communicate the Future

Wireless technology is now a standard in designs as a basic serial port. Many of our systems today use Radio Frequency (RF) technology broadly to communicate about the environment around them, to upgrade their capabilities through seamless software updates, and to receive instructions on their next task. In this episode of The Current, our host Todd Baker speaks to Bob Card - ASE Marketing Manager at onsemi. The two discuss communication of data as an end application of wireless technologies and what new possibilities are currently in the market to provide wireless technology with an expanded new path to the future, and to success for designers across the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices