Five Minutes With Phil Gerskovich, Sr. VP, New Growth Businesses, Zebra Technologies - Video
August 18, 2015First, why would someone name a company after a striped animal? Actually, the company's history dictated that, as Phil Gerskovich, Sr. VP at Zebra Technologies explained to me. When I asked how the co
Synopsys, Cypress hasten the delivery of USB Type C products - Other
August 17, 2015Momentum continues to grow around the latest incarnation of USB, dubbed USB Type C. Synopsys recently introduced what it is calling "the industry's fi...
Microchip continues to prove that there's life at 8 bits - Other
August 12, 2015Lots of industry pundits continue to crow that the 8-bit MCU market is dead, that 16- or 32-bit devices are so cheap that there's no need for 8-bit de...
Five Minutes With Gordon Kruberg, President & CEO, Gumstix - Video
August 11, 2015Kruberg is the president of Gumstix, a company that specialized in development kits. They began delivering such kits way before it was in vogue to do so. I asked Kruberg why he thought this idea would
Five Minutes With Gordon Kruberg, President & CEO, Gumstix - Video
August 11, 2015Kruberg is the president of Gumstix, a company that specialized in development kits. They began delivering such kits way before it was in vogue to do so. I asked Kruberg why he thought this idea would
ams acquires NXP's advanced CMOS sensor business - Other
August 11, 2015A funny thing happened while I was on vacation last week - ams, a provider of high-performance sensors and analog ICs, announced that it has acquired...
PCB laminate considerations for 4G-based M2M designs - Other
August 10, 2015Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) took off a few years ago when major cellular operators embraced the trend and began offering low-cost data plan...
Five Minutes With Steve Jennis, Senior VP of Corporate Development, PrismTech - Video
August 05, 2015Are you looking to extract a business strategy form the Internet of Things (IoT)? That's what you can get from PrismTech, because they know it's really all about the data more than anything else. In t
Five Minutes With Steve Jennis, Senior VP of Corporate Development, PrismTech - Video
August 05, 2015Are you looking to extract a business strategy form the Internet of Things (IoT)? That's what you can get from PrismTech, because they know it's really all about the data more than anything else. In t
Five Minutes With Simon Davidmann, CEO/Founder, Imperas - Video
July 28, 2015Simon Davidmann, Founder and CEO of Imperas is a self-described "serial engineer." A what? Well, listen to the five-minute interview and you'll understand what that means. As a long-time veteran of t
Five Minutes With Simon Davidmann, CEO/Founder, Imperas - Video
July 28, 2015Simon Davidmann, Founder and CEO of Imperas is a self-described "serial engineer." A what? Well, listen to the five-minute interview and you'll understand what that means. As a long-time veteran of t
Five Minutes With Sean McGrath, Sr. VP & GM, Connectivity, Auto & Indus. Grp., Dialog Semiconductor - Video
July 21, 2015The future lies within energy-efficient connected devices, also known as the consumer IoT. Bluetooth Smart is one of the technologies that'll take us to that eventual future. To show exactly how we ge
Five Minutes With Sean McGrath, Sr. VP & GM, Connectivity, Auto & Indus. Grp., Dialog Semiconductor - Video
July 21, 2015The future lies within energy-efficient connected devices, also known as the consumer IoT. Bluetooth Smart is one of the technologies that'll take us to that eventual future. To show exactly how we ge
Five Minutes With Ali Sebt, President, Renesas Electronics America - Video
July 14, 2015Ali Sebt is the President of the U.S. division of a Japanese company. Do you think that comes with challenges? You bet it does, and Ali elaborates on that. How do you convince the powers that be with
Five Minutes With Ali Sebt, President, Renesas Electronics America - Video
July 14, 2015Ali Sebt is the President of the U.S. division of a Japanese company. Do you think that comes with challenges? You bet it does, and Ali elaborates on that. How do you convince the powers that be with
Five Minutes With Michael Furtado, President/Founder, PCcardsDirect.com - Video
July 09, 2015PCcardsDirect.com sells, amongst lots of other things, PCMCIA cards. Is there still a market for this technology? You'd be surprised (at least I was) by Michaels's response. Then we addressed the othe
Using multicore and virtualization for efficient and flexible development - Q&A with Rob Oshana, Freescale Semiconductor - Other
July 09, 2015Use of multicore processors in embedded systems has dramatically increased over the past several years, and virtualization is an important component t...
Five Minutes With Adrian Caceres, Co-Founder, VP of Engineering, Ayla Networks - Video
July 01, 2015Do you know someone who can claim to be a lead designer on Amazon's Kindle? Listen to this interview and you can answer in the affirmative. Adrian Caceres has a passion for anything wireless, includin
Five Minutes With Tony Stratakos, VP of Advanced R&D, Maxim - Video
June 23, 2015Tony is an analog and power guy, and frankly, there are fewer and fewer of these people around today. We had an interesting five-minute discussion about whether analog would actually go away at some p
The Renesas Synergy platform manages to stand out in a crowded space - Other
June 19, 2015Oh great, I was hoping there would be another ARM-based processor. That's just what the world needs. Yes, this is dripping with sarcasm, but it's also...