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The DevTalk with Rich and Vin podcast features Rich Nass, EVP of Embedded Computing Design, and Vin D’Agostino, veteran embedded systems designer. Each episode tackles a different aspect of embedded system design, from the hardware to the software to the tools. It’ll also look at some higher level market issues, but only as it impacts the engineer/developer. Topics covered include artificial intelligence, embedded systems, machine learning, industrial automation and much more.
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Podcast exploring what makes a technical lead truly effective. We dive into the core principles of team leadership, share insights on implementing cutting-edge technologies, and discuss how AI is shaping the modern IT landscape. Each episode brings you one step closer to becoming a more confident and impactful technical leader.
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Hello there, This is the Semikolan community and we are bringing Expedite, a part of Semikolan DevTalks. Expedite is a monthly podcast where we talk about the upcoming hackathons, open source programs, scholarships, ambassador programs, developer conferences and anything that you can help you out as a Developer. Expedite, as the name suggest, is created with the aim to make developers aware of the upcoming opportunities beforehand, we hope to see you soon in our first episode.
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You likely have heard of the Rust programming language, known for its safety features. But, like me, you may not know its details, and frankly, why you should be considering it for your next design. For those reasons, Rich and Vin invited Jonathan Pallant, a Senior Engineer with Ferrous Systems, to join them on this episode of DevTalk with Rich and…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Reverse Engineering
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Just about everybody in the engineering space has reverse-engineered a product at some point. It might have been for professional reasons, like seeing how a competitor is attacking a problem or simply seeing how they engineered a product. Or it could have been for personal reasons, because the product stopped working, or simply because they wanted …
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Embedded FPGAs with Achronix
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Theoretically, you can do whatever functions you require in hardware or software. The most efficient way to complete those functions is with the proper mix of hardware and software. The important question is how you determine what gets implemented in hardware versus what’s in software. What if you can do a quasi-hardware-software mix? That’s what i…
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AI Lobbying Boom: The Race for Federal Policy and a Tech Lead's Take
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Tune into DK Review to see how America's AI lobbying spree shapes tech, states pass new rules, and Tech Leads adapt. It's all about AI's future—and your business.
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Operator Unleashed The Next Frontier of AI Agents
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Unlock the power of OpenAI's Operator. This new AI agent clicks, orders, and automates your web tasks. DK reveals if it can truly revolutionize your daily workflow.
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Stargate Showdown: Musk vs. Altman in the Half-Trillion AI Race
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Get ready for a wild ride into 2025, where two AI powerhouses—Elon Musk and Sam Altman—lock horns over a half-trillion-dollar “Stargate” project that could reshape the tech frontier. Join Denys, your veteran Tech Lead host, as he unpacks the jaw-dropping data center expansions, the political maneuvers behind Musk’s new government commission, and wh…
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R1 Rising: How DeepSeek’s Reasoning Model is Transforming the AI Landscape
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In this episode, we shine a spotlight on DeepSeek’s brand-new R1 “reasoning model,” hailed by many as a serious challenger to OpenAI’s o1. We’ll explore how R1’s internal step-by-step reasoning, cost efficiency, and open-source release could disrupt the AI status quo—especially given that it’s coming from a relatively small Chinese company. We’ll b…
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Ever wondered what it really takes to lead a tech team from chaos to collaboration? In this episode of Lead Cause Analysis, we dive headfirst into the journey of a longtime coder who transitioned from obsessing over BASIC and Pascal to juggling architecture reviews, stakeholder meetings, and code refactors—all with the finesse of Shiva’s many arms.…
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Most people in our embedded industry are familiar with Steve Sanghi, who has been the CEO of Microchip for more than thirty years. Steve took over the company in its not-so-successful early days and brought it to the great heights we know today, as a multi-billion dollar semiconductor powerhouse. Steve stepped down from the CEO role a few years ago…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Maher Matta, President, Infineon Americas
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Maher Matta, the President of the Americas division of Infineon Technologies agreed to join Rich and Vin on this episode of the podcast. The audience will likely relate to the route taken by Maher, as he came up through the engineering ranks, starting as a bench engineer. As you might expect, there were some bumps and bruises along the way. If you …
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Buckle Your Seatbelt, We’re Going to Mars
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The space program has come quite far in the last decade when it comes to sending people to Mars and building a colony there. If you’re wondering what it would take to accomplish that, check out the book Colonizing Mars by Frank Norris. Or, take the easy way out and check out the latest DevTalk with Rich and Vin podcast, where we invited Frank on as…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Requirements-Management Tools
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As the complexity of our embedded systems has exploded, particularly in the automotive space, a requirements-management tool has moved into the “must-have” category. With the volume of people, the humongous code base, and the geographically disparate design teams, it’s nearly impossible to maintain and track every aspect of a design. With all that …
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Test Early and Often
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Engineers know how important it is to test their prototypes. What they don’t seem to get is that the testing process needs to start at the beginning of the design process, not at the end. And testing must continue all the way through the entire design process. The reasons for this are what Rich and Vin go through on this episode of DevTalk with Ric…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin (and SiLabs CEO)
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In this episode of DevTalk with Rich (Nass) and Vin (D’Agostino), Matt Johnson, the CEO of Silicon Labs joins us. It’s a lively discussion, starting in rural Maine, and ending with “Should engineers be concerned that AI will take their jobs?” Listen in for some interesting responses.By Rich Nass, Embedded Computing Design
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Welcome to a slightly different version of our DevTalk with Rich and Vin podcast. In addition to doing our traditional tech talks, which you’ve clearly told us that you enjoy, we will be producing discussions with CEOs. But we won’t be going through the usual company blah, blah, blah. We’re going to dig a little deeper and find out what really driv…
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Chiplets are quite in vogue these days. But are they the solution to all your problems? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t understand what they are, how they work, and how you can implement them in your design. Check out this installment of DevTalk with Rich and Vin and you’ll at least have a baseline understanding of this technology…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: What Was Supposed to Happen in 2023 That Didn’t
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This is the time of year for predictions: What do you think will happen in 2024? As you might expect, Rich and Vin take a different approach. They look at the things that were predicted for 2023, but didn’t actually pan out. Is AI the panacea that we expected? Maybe not. It’s likely that more partnerships must occur for this technology to match the…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: FPGAs for the Midrange Do Exist
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In the golden era of electrical engineering, when yours truly was a budding designer, we worked with a processor, like an 8051 or an 8085, and we wrote some code to go with it. Programmable log? It existed, but those things were too darn expensive for what we called mainstream or mid-range applications. Fast forward to today, and you’d be hard pres…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Do Engineers Understand the Basics of Engineering?
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When content gets posted to Embedded Computing Design that’s latest “The Basics of …” or “XYZ 101,” the content usually gets tons of page views. I always wondered why that was the case. Are our engineers not as knowledgeable as we think? Are they just checking to make sure their assumptions are correct? I decided this would be a good topic for Vin,…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Practical Applications For AI
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Are you wondering what would be considered a practical application for AI at the endpoint (the place where the data is captured)? Well, you’re in luck, because Rich is moderating a panel at Renesas’ AI Live virtual conference that specifically covers that topic. To get one more opinion on what is a practical application, Rich and Vin discuss exactl…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Myth: AI Is an Application. Verdict: False
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Seemingly, if you've read any news report that touches on the technology sector, there’s some mention of artificial intelligence. But too often, we hear people talking about AI as an application, and that’s wrong, just like the IoT is not an application. Rather, it’s an enabler to other applications. AI helps enhance your XYZ application, making it…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Adding AI to the HVAC Specialist’s Toolbelt
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Whether you’re aware of it or not. AI is pervading many of our “traditional” applications, such as HVAC. Adding some smarts to this equipment allows the HVAC system to perform longer and more efficiently, resulting in a better user experience and a cost savings. To get a better handle on how this works and how it should be implemented, Rich and Vin…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Is AI the Greatest Achievement of Our Lifetime?
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AI seems to be omni-present. It’s in the news, it’s in our classrooms, and it’s certainly in our engineering labs. But are we spending too much time discussing the technology that’s the current “new thing,” or is it really the greatest technology of our lifetime? In this episode of DevTalk with Rich and Vin, we ponder that question, and make a dete…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: How and Where to Begin Your AI Design
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While Rich and Vin usually believe they all the answers to all the design-related questions, that may not always be the case. For example, when the question of where to begin your AI-based design came up, the “experts” felt in was prudent to bring in someone even more expert. In this case, that was Stuart Feffer, of Renesas. Note that Stuart will b…
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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Assessing the AI/ML Ecosystem
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AI and machine learning are relatively new technologies in the embedded space. And the only way an application space can grow is by having a robust ecosystem. Some may argue that such an ecosystem already exists for AI, while others say that developers should wait a bit before diving in. To get a handle on where this important topic stands, Rich an…
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Meet an 11 year old Programmer: Parth Anand | Semikolan DevTalks
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Meet Parth Anand, an 11 year old Programmer who's into Web Development, knows Python and building his own startup Connx essentially created with an aim to beat Google :) In the podcast we talked about programming in general, his motivations, future plans and everything that interests Parth.
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This is the second episode of Expedite, where we talked about some major events, workshops, open source programs, resources, scholarships and hackathons that you can check out in December 2021. Check out the blog at https://blog.semikolan.co/blog/expedite-december-21
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Expedite November 21 | Semikolan DevTalks
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This is the first episode of Expedite, where we talked about some major events, workshops, open source programs, resources, scholarships and hackathons that you can check out in November 2021. Check out all the links mentioned in the podcast at https://blog.semikolan.co/blog/expedite-november-21
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This is the Trailer of Expedite, a part of Semikolan DevTalks created and recorded by the Semikolan Community.
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