The TMPDIR podcast

RISC-v and FPGAs With Ted Speers From Microchip

Available on your favorite podcast platform. In this episode, we discuss with Ted Speers the history of FPGAs and the inclusion of RISC-V technology in Microchip’s latest PolarFire products. Ted is an industry veteran and shares his experiences, including why they chose RISC-V and the resulting benefits. Pay special attention to his general advice starting 1:15:26. Strategy is not being some smart guy figuring out we are going to do this, this, and this, and it’s all going to work out. Strategy is creating options for yourself. You always want to create optionality. As soon as you get locked into one track, that may lead to failure. So creating optionality, if you are a young person, is what you want to do with your career. One way to create optionality is to meet people. The way you make your own luck is create the options. Then you are in a robust, anti-fragile position. Ted recommends books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb such as The Black Swan. Discuss this episode at our community site.

Mastering Embedded Linux Development With Chris Simmonds and Frank Vasquez

Available on your favorite podcast platform. In this episode, we discuss Embedded Linux with the authors of Mastering Embedded Linux Development. Highlights: How this book came to be. What is new in the fourth edition. Development platforms used in the book. Common Embedded Linux pitfalls. Why Yocto instead of Ubuntu. Android in embedded systems. And lots more … If you are interested in Embedded Linux, this book is an excellent reference that covers a lot of topics (710 pages!!!). You can buy this book at most of the usual places. I got a DRM free version at Packt. Discuss this episode at our community site.

Clang/LLVM in Yocto

Available on your favorite podcast platform. Clang was recently moved from a seperate layer into oe-core. In this episode Khem shares why this happened and why Clang may be a good fit for your product development. Discuss this episode at our community site.

Matt Madison, the Latest With NVIDIA Embedded and Other Technologies

Available on your favorite podcast platform. Today we catch up with Matt Madison, the maintainer of the meta-tegra layer for NVIDIA Jetson embedded products. Matt was also on our podcast last year. Discuss this episode at our community site.

Avocado OS With Justin Schneck

Available on your favorite podcast platform. In this episode, we visit with Justin Schneck from Peridio about how Avocado OS is solving various problems in the embedded Linux space. Avocado’s attributes are composability, extensibility, and security. This platform composes embedded runtimes, which seems like a practical alternative to containers at the edge. Discuss this episode at our community site.