Best Embedded Computing Designs Podcasts (2025)

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501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe 1:20:45

4d ago1:20:45

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We spoke with ecologist Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba about lions, terror, and technology. Akiba works for FreakLabs.org on global conservation projects. We talked about their Boombox which Meredith uses to create experiments to map the landscape of fear in predator/prey relationships. While this may look like pranking animals wit…

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How Tariffs and Security Are Reshaping Embedded 36:32

4d ago36:32

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, we’re joined by Principal Analyst at global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, Reece Hayden, to discuss the recent global tariffs, and the effects of this on supply chains, manufacturing costs, and expansion. Next, Ken sits down with Jun Kawaguchi, global marketing executive for the Secur…

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Embedded Executive: Security Through Open Source | Tropic Square 8:57

5d ago8:57

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Some “experts” in the embedded space will swear that systems based on open-source software or hardware can never be secure. At the same time, others will say that such a notion is pure nonsense. To get a better feel for the argument and understand what is accurate and what is not, I spoke to Jan Pleskac, the Co-Founder and CTO of Tropic Square, on …

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Open Source and Software-Defined Vehicles 12:11

7d ago12:11

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The Eclipse Foundation's Eclipse SDV Working Group supports an open source platform for software defined vehicles (SDV). This takes a lot of work from participating companies like Codethink. In this podcast, William Wong chats with Codethink’s President, John Ellis, about the challenges of using open source software in this arena.…

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Next-Gen Engineering: Efficient Computing & the Rise of Rust 59:39

11d ago59:39

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, we’re joined by Carnegie Mellon professor and founder of Efficient Computer, Brandon Lucia. Brandon dives into his company's general-purpose processor, designed to deliver 100x more energy efficiency than any chip on the market today. He also shares insights from his academic work and the challen…

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Embedded Executive: Move Your Processing to Your Memory Subsystem | PIMIC 9:12

12d ago9:12

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In a typical SoC, you handle all your processing functionality within the processor core. Makes sense, right? What if you can handle your processing within the SoC’s memory subsystem? If I understand the concept correctly, the time and power to handle those processing functions would be reduced considerably, which is needed in an AI application. So…

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Taking a Look at Machine Vision 11:25

13d ago11:25

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Traditional vision systems based on cameras are really geared towards image storage, not image processing, and certainly don't detect motion, and you have to compare video frame-by-frame to figure out if something moves. In this episode, we talk to SiLC Technologies CEO, Dr. Mehdi Asghari, about the state of the art in machine vision and what the c…

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500: Nerding Out About the Ducks 1:07:34

17d ago1:07:34

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Komathi Sundaram spoke with us about her enthusiasm for tests and test automation. We talked about the different joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and different kinds of tests including unit, hardware-in-the-loop, and simulation. It may sound dry but we had a lot of fun. Komathi’s site is TheKomSea.com which hosts her blog as …

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Embedded Executive: Functional Safety Is a Must Have | PX5 RTOS 12:20

19d ago12:20

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Functional safety is no longer a “nice to have” or “should have” in many applications, having moved to “must have” in spaces like automotive, industrial automation, medical devices, and aviation. Passing the functional safety testing process can be rigorous, especially if you’re going through it for the first time. But even the best experts take at…

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Axial Flux Motors Gain Traction in Diesel Hybrids 30:45

21d ago30:45

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Electric motors play a key role in converting electrical power into motive power. This episode of Inside Electronics has Andy chatting with Turntide, a designer and manufacturer of axial flux motors, about the operating principles and optimal applications for AFMs, including diesel hybrids, tidal power generation, ship propulsion, and military use …

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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Rust 32:28

25d ago32:28

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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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Embedded Executive: Real Time Is a Misnomer | McObject 12:54

26d ago12:54

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In programming jargon, the term “real time” is not used in its literal sense, which can be confusing. The literal definition means that when something happens in real time, it happens instantaneously. But in practice, something that occurs very quickly is mistitled as being real-time. Why does the misconception continue to occur, and what problems …

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Neuromorphic Computing Delivers Low Power AI 22:33

28d ago22:33

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Spiking neural networks (SNN) are an implementation of neuromorphic computing, an aspect of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Neuromorphic computing emulates the operation of physical neurons like those found in the human brain. In this episode, Electronic Design’s Senior Content Director, Bill Wong, talks with Steven Brightfiel…

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499: This Is Your Problem 50:51

1M ago50:51

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We spoke with Janet Hansen about the world of professional costumery (with electronics) and becoming an artist. Janet’s business is Enlighted where you can find custom illuminated clothing as well as Janet’s ready-made art. Janet’s personal site is janethansen.com which is more focused on her artistic pursuits. Janet mentioned Seeed’s MSGEQ7. We ta…

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AI in Healthcare, Reverse-Engineering, and Industry Acquisitions 1:14:19

1M ago1:14:19

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Editor-in-Chief Ken Briodagh sits down with Marten Smith, Principal Segment Manager for the Medical and Health Segment at Microchip Technology. Together, they explore how Microchip supports innovation in the medical field, navigates stringent security standards, and tackles the challenges of cert…

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Embedded Executive: You Can Have Lots of Power or Performance, But Not Both | Micron 11:17

1M ago11:17

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If system developers had unlimited power for their designs, they’d likely find a way to take advantage of it. And the same goes for performance. However, neither of those features is available in infinite quantities. And in just about every case, one becomes a tradeoff for the other. So, how do you manage that tradeoff, and when you do, what other …

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MISRA C/C++: What, Why and How 18:03

1M ago18:03

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In this episode, William Wong talks with with Andrew Banks, Technical Specialist at LDRA. LDRA’s MISRA C/C++ support is a central piece of its static analysis tools that exceed the requirements of MISRA C/C++. MISRA C:2012 offered new guidelines and the latest MISRA C standard is MISRA C:2023. MISRA C++ is a separate standard but with the same appr…

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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Reverse Engineering 22:56

1M ago22:56

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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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Embedded Executive: Minimize the Power in Your WiFi Network | Infineon 9:03

1M ago9:03

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Low-power is the ultimate priority in some WiFi networks, especially when you’re designing a battery powered device. Cameras used in remote locations are prime targets for this discussion. In some cases, access to that camera is difficult, so the user needed want to charge or replace a battery on a regular basis. To understand what the current stat…

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Discussing the Wireless Ecosystem’s Disruptive Evolution 18:48

1M ago18:48

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When it comes to wireless systems, we are in a disruptive evolutionary phase, with an interesting combination of multiple advanced solutions looking for application spaces to address. In this episode, Host Alix Paultre chats with Viavi's Ian Wong about upcoming technological advancements in the wireless and telecommunications space.…

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498: To Consume Stickers 1:06:34

1M ago1:06:34

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At the end of this week’s show, Elecia reads a Winnie the Pooh poem as Cookie Monster death metal. Before that, Chris and Elecia chat about mental health, journaling, personal projects, and listener questions. Please sign up for the Nordic Giveaway! You can also sign up for the Embedded newsletter. Maybe now with job postings? Elecia’s journaling n…

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Evolving Chip Design: Challenges & Innovations with Atomera & Siemens EDA 49:37

2M ago49:37

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Scott Bibaud, President and CEO of Atomera, explores the rising costs of semiconductor manufacturing and the challenges of scaling to advanced nodes like 3nm and 2nm. He breaks down the diminishing performance gains and the complexity of high-volume semiconductor architectures. Next, Rich and Sco…

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Embedded Executive: Chip Design Is Not Getting Easier | Siemens 18:17

2M ago18:17

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Chip design has always been a complex process, and there is no end in sight. What has improved are the tools available to an IC designer. The chips are getting more specialized; hence, the tools must drill down further into the process than ever before. This sounds like a lot of black magic, but it becomes less cloudy when someone who understands t…

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Advantages of Event-based Vision Systems 15:55

2M ago15:55

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Conventional image sensors capture a frame at a time while event-based vision sensors track changes of individual pixels. In this episode, Dr. Luca Verre, Founder of Prophesee, talks about the company's event-based sensor and how it works. An event-based imaging system can detect changes more accurately while reducing bandwidth and power requiremen…

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Embedded Executive: Yes, You Can This With Bluetooth | Blecon 13:06

2M ago13:06

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Just when you thought you’d done everything you could do with Bluetooth, along comes something new and unique. At a recent technical conference, I was witness to a very cool demo that was all based on Bluetooth. Rather than attempt to describe it myself, I asked Simon Ford, the Founder of Blecon, the company providing the demo, to explain what it i…

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Exploring 3D NOR Flash Technology 16:07

2M ago16:07

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NOR flash memory has been a mainstay for microcontrollers and microprocessors for code and data storage while NAND flash has been used for data storage. The latter has higher capacity on its side but NOR is the choice where reliability and performance are important. Electronic Design Editor Bill Wong talks with Miin Wu, Chairman and CEO at Macronix…

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497: Everyone Likes Tiny 1:24:18

2M ago1:24:18

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OpenMV has a new Kickstarter so CEO Kwabena Agyeman chatted with us about more powerful (and smaller!) programmable cameras. See OpenMV’s site for their existing cameras. See their (already funded!) kickstarter page for the super powerful N6 and the ridiculously small AE3. Note that OpenMV still is committed to open source. See their github if you …

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The Road Ahead: Automotive Tech, Standards, and Safety for 2025 28:25

2M ago28:25

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, we’re joined by Jonathan Moore, Director of Advanced Systems at Exida, and John Ellis, USA President and Head of Product at Codethink. These industry leaders share their insights on the future of automotive technology, focusing on software engineering for 2025, along with key discussions on trust…

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Embedded Executive: Consider Security Far Earlier Than You Think | NXP 15:07

2M ago15:07

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We often say that designing secure systems means thinking about security early on in the design process. That means really early on, well before any pen is put to paper, so to speak. To understand what that means, I spoke to Denis Noel, the Director of Strategy in the Secure Connected Edge business unit at NXP on this week’s Embedded Executives pod…

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Can Rust Work for Safety Critical Embedded System? 27:24

2M ago27:24

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Rust is a relatively new programming language that has garnered support from developers working on everything from Linux device drivers to cloud services. Rust pointer management is one thing that makes the language stand out. As an open-source project, it cannot be used directly in many applications where things like IEC 62304 and ISO 26262 are ne…

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Embedded Executive: Hacks Are Still Happening | Digi 18:30

2M ago18:30

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Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this before, because it needs to be repeated, again, and again. The embedded industry needs to take security more seriously. Hacks are continuing to occur and will continue until there is a “security by design” mentality in place in our space. It’s hard to believe we are still having this discussion, but we are. I also…

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How Additive Manufacturing is Impacting the Electronics Industry 17:34

2M ago17:34

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The advantages that electronics manufacturers and their customers can leverage from using additive manufacturing (compared to traditional processes) include faster, more cost-effective design and development of high-quality prototypes in just a few days with more design iterations to accelerate go-to-market times, improve process integration, and o…

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496: Beauty, Elegance, Consistency 59:56

2M ago59:56

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Professor Shimon Schocken spoke with us about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games. We also talk about good design, good interfaces, and good tests. Shimon’s book is Elements of Computing Systems and the website with the course lectu…

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Embedded Executive: Simplify Edge AI | Tria 10:05

3M ago10:05

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Edge AI is one of the popular topics amongst the embedded community. It’s the place where decisions are made, data is analyzed, etc. It’s also a place where lots of confusion arises because of its complexity, especially from a development perspective. To get to the heart of where the challenges lie in this phase of design, I spoke with Jim Beneke, …

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Vehicle Electrification in Patrol Cars 24:21

3M ago24:21

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When many consider vehicle electrification, they tend to dive into the granularity of the solution sets and how do we get to where we're going. However, there are also application-specific needs that should be addressed in their migration to electric vehicles. Andy Turudic from Electronic Design and Paul Peluso from Officer Magazine chat about cons…

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Transforming Modern Manufacturing: Robotics, Automation & Functional Safety 59:00

3M ago59:00

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Winston Leung, Senior Product Marketing Manager at QNX, and Jay Thomas, Director of Field Development at LDRA join the podcast to discuss the fusion of robotics and automation in modern manufacturing, and how functional safety is shaping this transformative shift. Then, Rich and Vin are back with…

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Embedded Executive: Develop an ASIC For Far Less Than $100K | Efabless 12:46

3M ago12:46

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Common knowledge says that if you want to create an ASIC, you’d better have at least $1M in your bank account. The folks at Efabless say that my common knowledge is inaccurate by a long shot. They claim to be able to get folks started for far less than $100k. I needed to understand how this is possible, so I invited Michael Wishart, the CEO and co-…

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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Embedded FPGAs with Achronix 26:06

3M ago26:06

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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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Importance of Timing in Advanced Embedded Systems 17:46

3M ago17:46

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Timing and synchronization are vital to electronics in many ways, from on-board circuit control to inter-device communications, to network management and beyond. The ability to accurately time and coordinate events, data, and signals is fundamental to the performance of a smart connected embedded system today. We talk to Q-Tech's former president, …

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495: Shortcut the Difficulties of Reality 1:01:56

3M ago1:01:56

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Professor Cindy Harnett spoke to us about new and different sensors and actuators, primarily designed for soft robotics and fabricated with relatively low cost materials. Cindy is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Louisville where she runs the Harnett Lab. The papers we discussed are here. You can find a longer…

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Embedded Executive: Simplify Designing Edge-Based AI | ClearBlade 13:55

3M ago13:55

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From a developer’s perspective, Edge AI is anything but simple. Any tools, software, etc., that can simplify the process of integrating this technology into a system is very welcome. That’s where ClearBlade comes in, with its framework that developers “design to,” using hardware, software, and even terminology that the design community is accustome…

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The Key to Defining Successful Products in the Age of AI 34:18

3M ago34:18

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Engineering a product that is disconnected from customers and markets risks time, money, and reputations. In this episode, Laura Reese, Silicon Valley engineer and author of business book, “Align,” joins Electronic Design's Andy Turudic and Endeavor Business Intelligence EVP Paul Mattioli, to discuss her experiences and insights for defining succes…

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A Modular Future: Chiplets, AI, and Advanced Packaging 45:37

3M ago45:37

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Send us a text On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Ken sits down with Rozalia Beica, Field CTO at Rapidus Corporation, to explore the rise of chiplet integration, Rapidus' U.S. expansion, the transformative role of AI in semiconductors, and the growing importance of advanced packaging in the industry. Stay tuned for insights into how Rapidus is s…

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