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...
Five Minutes With Bret Greenstein, VP of IBM's IoT Continuous Engineering & Asset Mgmt Solutions - Video
June 17, 2015Guess who's involved with the Internet of Things? You got it—IBM. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that a company the size of IBM could be nimble enough to operate in a space that ch
Five Minutes With Jimmy Buchheim, Chairman/CEO, Bluvision - Video
June 09, 2015Are you familiar beacon technology? If not, you should be, especially if you're designing products for the consumer and/or retail. In a nutshell, beacon technology takes GPS indoors, to your home, you
Five Minutes With Joel Young, CTO/VP of R&D, Digi - Video
June 02, 2015Digi claims to have been a leader in IoT for more years that the technology has been around, sort of. How can that be? That's the first question I posed on Joel Young, and he straightened me out. The
Microchip's Digital-Signal Controllers Suits Digital Power Apps - Blog
June 02, 2015While I generally don't think about Microchip when I'm thinking about DSP vendors, they do offer some DSP-based products that are aimed at specific ap...
Five Minutes With Jim Carroll, CTO, Mobica - Video
May 27, 2015Mobica is involved with testing mobile platforms. I asked Jim what a designer's biggest challenge would be with respect to testing these platforms. He discussed the fragmentation and proliferation of
Five Minutes with Tony King-Smith, Executive Vice President, Imagination Technologies - Video
May 20, 2015Imagination offers solutions to lots of partners that could be viewed as competitive. Is that potentially a problem for an IP company? Maybe yes and may no, depending on how it handled, and Tony King-
Five Minutes with Nikolaos (Nic) Papadopoulos, President, u-blox America - Video
May 14, 2015They are a company known for its positioning technology. The question asked (and answered) is, what's the future of positioning technology, as it's clear that it’s a very desirable technology. U-blox
Five Minutes With Marcellus Buchheit, President and CEO of Wibu-Systems - Video
May 05, 2015Do you feel comfortable updating your system over the Internet? What of your data is personal or mission critical. Our expert in the field claims that it's safe, sort of. But don't expect him to be in