EE Times Current

Mar 07 2025 245 ep. 33 mins 314
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EE Times Current provides a deep dive into the most compelling stories in the electronics industry. Tune in to keep yourself current on what matters to design engineers and other tech industry professionals

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Making Analog Chip Designs Without Analog Designers

Mar 07 2025 48 mins  
Dr. Jennifer Hasler (https://ece.gatech.edu/directory/jennifer-olson-hasler) of Georgia Tech is best known for her work with field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs). In this episode of Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/), she talks about the importance of, and progress in, analog electronics for AI with Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) of the Universit

BrainChip’s IP for Targeting AI Applications at the Edge

Feb 07 2025 47 mins  
Dr. Tony Lewis, CTO of BrainChip, and four other key scientists talk to Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) of University College London. They discuss their business strategy, their temporal event-based neural network (TENN) and the next iteration of the Akida chip. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) from the Czech T

Robots Need Physical, Not Just Artificial, Intelligence

Jan 03 2025 48 mins  
In this episode of Brains and Machines, emeritus Prof. Rodney Brooks (https://rodneybrooks.com/) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, currently CTO of Robust AI, talks about bottom-up and top-down approaches to robotics and AI with Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) of University College London. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com

A Shift Left Strategy Addresses IC Design Challenges Through Design-Stage Verification

Dec 13 2024 27 mins  
Many IC design teams struggle with tight deadlines and limited resources. The industry is constantly searching for new ways to improve efficiency without compromising design quality. While they might find tools that run incrementally faster, the real gains come from adjustments to the design flow – including what we call ‘shift-left’ strategies that pull signoff-quality verif

Embracing the Efficiency of the Neuromorphic Hairball

Dec 06 2024 47 mins  
Dr. Katie Schuman of the University of Tennessee explains the advantages of evolutionary approaches in neural processing to Dr. Sunny Bains of University College London. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.

Chip Combines Analog and Digital Neurons for Sensor Data

Nov 08 2024 48 mins  
Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) talks to four key figures at Innatera (https://innatera.com/), a spin out from the University of Delft in the Netherlands. They are hoping that their latest spiking neural network chip will become AI of choice for people working on sensor applications. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadang

Get Powered by Renesas: Leading Solutions in Automotive and Industrial Applications

Nov 06 2024 18 mins  
Renesas, known for its industry-leading MCU and MPU portfolio, has a comprehensive power management portfolio addressing existing and emerging applications. This compelling interview covers how Renesas is addressing power challenges in the automotive and industrial sectors, including solutions for xEV traction inverters, zonal control, and portable power stations. Renesas’ approa

Carver Mead Says Neuromorphic Efficiency Can Help AI

Oct 04 2024 65 mins  
UCL’s Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) talks parallelism, neural net efficiency and risk taking with Caltech’s Prof. Carver Mead (http://www.carvermead.caltech.edu/research.html). Now an emeritus professor, Mead has been instrumental in the development of chip design, and was one of the first employees of Noyce and Moore, which later became Intel. He’s also one o

How AI is Changing Every Aspect of EDA

Sep 26 2024 31 mins  
There is a lot of hype in the industry around AI, but behind the hype there is the reality. That reality is that AI really is impacting virtually every aspect of semiconductor design. However, its not as simple as taking general purpose AI solutions and hoping they work for EDA, the risks are too high and when dealing with parts per billion (or trillion) in acceptable errors, hallu

Leveraging Safety Processor Expertise to Develop RISC-V Based Automotive Implementations

Jul 23 2024 13 mins  
The podcast interview explores the role of RISC-V in the automotive sector. It begins with a brief introduction to RISC-V, explaining it as an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA). The discussion then shifts to current automotive trends from a processing perspective, highlighting advancements and the increasing importance of robust, high-performance computing.