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Philip Freidin of Fliptronics joins Dave and Chris to talk about his work at AMD, Xilinx and the state of the industry.
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 […]
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Dave and Chris start by talking about energy and end up talking about silicon eventually.
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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.
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 […]
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
