In this episode, Alix Paultre will talk about his impressions and thoughts from the recent electronica show in Munich, Germany. From the hot topics to the cool technology, the show had a lot of interesting elements.

Insane levels of electrical power are needed to support AI in datacenters, and the electrification of mobility means development of remote locations for the extraction of critical mineral resources including the powering of fully electric 1MW mining trucks. A number of startups are developing Small Modular Reactors in the 20MW to 500MW power output range, requiring extensive site development, construction and support resources, but Nano Nuclear Energy Inc. is uniquely positioned in the microreactor space with two commercial microreactor designs that output up to 5MW with the complete electrical generator housed in an ISO shipping container.

Devices are becoming more intelligent and can be tailored to be patient-specific, making a medical device that not only provides for the whole population, but can also really target the patient cohort or the target group of the disease or condition that must be treated or diagnosed.

There are many recent advances that have enabled medical advice development, from the sensors to the software, and in this episode, we talk to Dr. Visa Suomi from MathWorks about the complexity and inter-functionality of advanced medical devices.

All electrical systems need power and these days most systems need a steady, efficient, and cost-effective source. Solutions like switched mode power supplies (SMPS) are now common but not necessarily easy to design or select.

Guest host Bill Wong talks with Frederik Dostal, a power supply expert with Analog Devices and also the author of the regular Dostal’s Design video/article series covering power supply design tips.

Today’s system-on-chips (SoC) are very complex. They have multiple cores and often many different types of cores including CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. Connecting these to peripherals and memory as well typically include one or more network-on-chips (NoC).

In this podcast, guest host Bill Wong talks with Andy Nightingale, VP Product Management and Marketing at Arteris, about NoCs.

In this episode of Inside Electronics, Senior Content Director Bill Wong talks with Steve Brightfield, CMO at BrainChip, about neuromorphic computing in the form of spiking neural networks (SNN). SNNs take an event-based approach to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

Brainchip's Akido technology implements SNNs in hardware providing similar acceleration support that existing neural processing units (NPU) provide but with significantly better performance and lower power requirements.

Industrial automation is getting real (time) with time sensitive networking (TSN). This open standard delivers determinism to Ethernet control networks and it works with wireless networks as well.

Senior Content Director Bill Wong talks with Tom Burke, Global Strategic Advisor, CC-Link Partner Association (CPLA) about how TSN works and why it is so important to industrial automation applications.

The Maker Movement is a relatively new phenomenon in society...or is it? The desire to understand technology and create things is a drive that has existed in people since the first devices were created. We sit down with Electronic Design editors Andy Turudic and Cabe Atwell for a discussion about the Maker Movement, Tinkerers, and engineering.