You've got to know when to hold 'emKnow when to fold 'emKnow when to walk awayAnd know when to run“The Gambler” - Kenny Rogers
Maybe the writing is on the wall. Maybe the truth is hidden in between the lines of your BOM. Maybe you really want to find another way but you don’t know where to start. Obsolescence may be bleeding your company dry but there is another way to deal with your end of life designs. In this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry, we attack the issues surrounding obsolescence and ad hoc sustainment with Ethan Plotkin (CEO - GD...
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
“The Gambler” - Kenny Rogers
Maybe the writing is on the wall. Maybe the truth is hidden in between the lines of your BOM. Maybe you really want to find another way but you don’t know where to start. Obsolescence may be bleeding your company dry but there is another way to deal with your end of life designs. In this week’s episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry, we attack the issues surrounding obsolescence and ad hoc sustainment with Ethan Plotkin (CEO - GDCA). Ethan and I discuss why obsolescence is like putting air in leaky tire and why changing the minds of our embedded system designers will be the true key to innovation. Also this week, we check out a new plant-inspired, tendril-equipped robot coming out of the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia that can climb and curl around objects.
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Links for February 8, 2019
More information about GDCA
The first tendril-like soft robot able to climb
A variable-stiffness tendril-like soft robot based on reversible osmotic actuation (Whitepaper)
New Episode of Chalk Talk: Logic Innovations for the Industrial Control Space
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Fish Fry Executive Interviews
Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys
Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software
Robert Blake, CEO – Achronix
Jack Harding, CEO – eSilicon
Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific
Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies
Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas
Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions
Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices
Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative
Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices
Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter
Mark Papermaster, CTO – AMD
David Fried, CTO – Coventor
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell
David Dutton, CEO – Silvaco
Bob Niemiec, CEO – TwistThink
Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies
Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions
Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon
Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT
Dan Fox, CTO – Local Motors
Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots
Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix
Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP
Alan Grau, CEO — Icon Labs
Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic
Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica
Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek
Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper
Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF
Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor
Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire
Mike Wisart, CEO – efabless
Chris Giovanniello, SVP and Co-Founder – Menlo Micro
Jake Janovetz, President – Opal Kelly
Jerry Gipper, Executive Director – VITA
Ethan Plotkin, CEO – GDCA
Xin Song, CEO - Bottos
Chris Dries, CEO – UnitedSiC
Bob Smith, Executive Director - ESD Alliance
Rick O'Connor, Executive Director - RISC V Foundation
Naveed Sherwani, CEO and Yunsup Lee, CTO/Founder- SiFIve
Doug Letcher, CEO and President – Metrics Technologies
Jun Pei, CEO – Cepton Technologies
Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST
