Philip Freidin was an architect of RISC (AM29000) and Bit-Slice (AM2900/29300) while at AMD. Later, while at Xilinx, he architected FPGAs such as the XC4000, Virtex, Virtex2, Virtex4 and the Spartan. He also has various patents, including for synchronous dual port RAM on an FPGA and for a programming standard that was the precursor to JTAG. Now […]
#102 — Gouging Green Gardyloo
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Dave and Chris start by talking about energy and end up talking about silicon eventually.
#101 – An Interview with Matt Ettus – Quality Quadrature Quidam
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Matt Ettus of Ettus Research (and NI) stops by The Amp Hour to talk software defined radio and the future of the airwaves.
Guest Questions and News Items
As you all hopefully have heard by now, we launched the “Discuss” section of The Amp Hour this past weekend. Though it may be an unfamiliar format, we’re really hoping that listeners will take the time to stop by that part of our site. We think it could be a great way for everyone to […]
#100 – Bonkers Birthday Badinage
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Dave and Chris discuss birthdays, discussion forums, fab building, chip building, cheap devices, expensive chips, job seeking and much more! Happy 100th episode!
Server Switchover (Done!)
Thanks to all of our wonderful donors, we’ve been able to upgrade some of our web server equipment and begin offering more services in the near future. As such, we just switched over from our old server to the new one. Congrats! You’ve arrived at our new server! Let us know how it’s […]
#99 – An Interview with Steve Leibson – Impavid Ideopraxist Insider
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Steve Leibson joins Chris and Dave for a chat about the EDA industry, Steve’s work with HP and various tech companies and the future of chips.
#98 – Proemial Passive Poiesis
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Dave and Chris discuss active component makers now making passive components! Also kit making, FPGA kits, 4 bits and a bit of news in the Test and Measurement industry.
#97 – An Interview with Eben Upton – Morbus Moilsome MakerFaire
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Welcome, Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Project! Chris just got back from Maker Faire! Is there a stigma against “Makers” by engineers by profession? There’s an article at Engineer Blogs about this subject. There was an article from the Drive for […]
#95 – An Interview with Øyvind Janbu – Feracious Fabless Facilitator
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Øyvind Janbu, CTO of Energy Micro, joins to talk about fabless semiconductor manufacturing of low power and low cost microcontrollers.






