Episodes
Published 04/19/24
Dr. Elisa Donati of the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich talks to Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) about neuromorphic circuits for prosthetics, drug delivery and more. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) from the Fortiss research institute in Munich, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings (https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/ralph-etienne-cummings/) of Johns Hopkins University.
Published 04/19/24
In this episode, Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) discusses neuromorphic chips with Dr. Amirreza Yousefzadeh (https://people.utwente.nl/a.yousefzadeh), who has most recently worked at imec and the University of Twente. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) from the Fortiss research institute in Munich, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings (https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/ralph-etienne-cummings/) of Johns Hopkins University.
Published 04/05/24
Join us in lasteset episode of EETimes Current as we delve into the transformative potential of 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (1.6TbE) alongside the pivotal role played by advanced 224G SerDes and emerging linear optical interfaces. Discover how this convergence optimizes area, power, and latency, enabling efficient processing of large language models and unstructured data with memory pooling and cache coherence. From mitigating datapath bottlenecks to unlocking new frontiers in compute throughput,...
Published 03/20/24
In this episode, Professor Shih-Chii Liu (https://sensors.ini.ch/people/shih-chii-liu), co-director of the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)—part of both the ETH and the University of Zurich, Switzerland—talks to Brains and Machines host, Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/), about neuromorphic cochlea, sparsity and deep networks, and what it will take for the technology to solve real problems in industry. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo...
Published 03/15/24
In this episode, Professor Emre Neftci, director of the Neuromorphic Software Ecosystems group at the Peter Grünberg Institute, talks to Brains and Machines host, Dr. Sunny Bains. He and his PGI colleagues, part of the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, think about how neurons can be trained and organized to learn in an efficient and brain-inspired way. You'll hear about his work in making backpropagation compatible with spiking neural networks, dealing with device variability, and one- and...
Published 02/16/24
In this episode of Brains and Machines (https://brainsandmachines.net/), you’ll hear Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi (https://www.iit.it/it/people-details/-/people/chiara-bartolozzi) talk about how neuromorphic technology can be used to implement attention mechanisms, the importance of embodiment, and why we need a solid theory of how neural systems can work together to create intelligence. 
Published 02/09/24
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Tobi Delbrück, one of the original neuromorphic engineers from Carver Mead's team at Caltech. Now a professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, he has spent his career developing neuromorphic cameras and other technology. In this interview, you'll find out how he got started in the field, his work developing the dynamic vision sensor (also known as an event camera) and the pros and cons...
Published 01/25/24
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) gets deep into nanoscale ferroelectrics with Professor Beatriz Noheda (https://www.rug.nl/staff/b.noheda/), director of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron). They discuss how this unusual interdisciplinary research center works, why nanoscale ferroelectrics may be useful in brain-like systems, and a little about how they are designed and fabricated.
Published 01/12/24
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Italian Institute of Technology interviews her IIT colleague, Dr. Simeon Bamford, who is currently working on tactile neuromorphic sensors. They talk about creating circuits to perform functions lost to brain damage, Bamford’s involvement with the commercialization of dynamic vision sensors, and his latest research on robotic touch. Discussion follows with Dr. Sunny Bains of University College London, and Prof....
Published 12/15/23
Our future environment depends on renewable and sustainable energy. To maximize sustainable energy sources, energy gathering and grid integration are essential. Silicon carbide (SiC) makes green energy systems more efficient and resilient. To ensure high-quality goods and system design flexibility, end-to-end vertical integration is necessary. In this podcast with Simon Keeton, executive vice president and general manager of the power solutions group at onsemi, we analyze the pivotal role...
Published 12/08/23
In the latest episode of Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/), EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) talks to Professor Melika Payvand (https://www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/groups/EIS/people.html), who designs neural systems from the circuit-level up at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. You'll find out the role that memristors are playing in the systems she designs, why neural circuits need to operate at different timescales, and why copying...
Published 12/01/23
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/), EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) talks to now Emeritus Professor Steve Furber (http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/sfurber/) as he prepares to leave the University of Manchester. They talk about associative memories, the original SpiNNaker neural simulator designed using densely-interconnected ARM cores, and the new generation of the technology currently being assembled. Discussion...
Published 11/17/23
In Part 2 our conversation with Power Integrations' Peter Vaughan, we'll take a more in-depth look at the technology that is already available for electric vehicles (EVs) as well as the path that lies ahead. The last time, we covered every aspect of the history of the electric car, which led us naturally to the present day and the introduction of the brand name Tesla, which has had a major impact on the competitive landscape of EVs. However, what are some other names that are contributing to...
Published 11/10/23
In this episode of EE Times Current, we take you on an electrifying trip through the history of electric vehicles. These silent, emission-free technological wonders were the forerunners of clean, green transportation in a world dominated by gasoline-powered automobiles. Power Integrations' Peter Vaughan will guide us through the past, present, and future of electric vehicles powering technology.
Published 11/02/23
In this episode of EE Times Current, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) talks to Professor Guillermo Gallego (https://sites.google.com/view/guillermogallego), from the Technical University of Berlin. They discuss the application of the new generation of bio-inspired event-driven cameras and their algorithms to extract cues of motion, depth and optical flow estimation. After that, Giulia discusses the interview with Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/)...
Published 10/27/23
Join us for the latest episode of our EE Times Current podcast, where we delve into the fascinating world of AI and Connectivity at the Edge solutions.Kaushal Vora and Mo Dogar from Renesas are our special guests for this episode. Together, we'll discuss the crucial hardware and software components required to realize this cutting-edge technology. Join us as we unravel the complex challenge of how these components seamlessly fit together and stay tuned as we explore real use cases such as...
Published 10/19/23
In this episode of the Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/) podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains (http://sunnybains.com/) talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya (https://www.zhaw.ch/en/lsfm/institutes-centres/icls/cognitive-computing-in-life-sciences/research-group-neuromorphic-computing/), who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing Group at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. We discuss the role that dynamical systems theory plays in robotics, her work at with Intel’s Loihi...
Published 10/13/23
In this episode of the Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/) podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains (http://sunnybains.com/) talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri (https://www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/groups/ncs.html), from the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. They talk about building biologically-plausible neural circuits in silicon, the trade-offs involved in using analog and digital circuits, and how the technology has been translated into startups. After that, Sunny...
Published 10/06/23
In this episode of the Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/) podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains (http://sunnybains.com/) talks to Dr Mitra Hartmann (https://robotics.northwestern.edu/people/profiles/faculty/hartmann-mitra.html), Professor of both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, and head of their sensory and neural engineering group. They discuss the ways in which modelling animal perceptual systems—in her case, the rat—can make us better at...
Published 09/25/23
In today's podcast, we hear from embedded.com editor in chief Nitin Dahad who attended the Industry 4.0 Summit in Porto, Portugal, interviewing executives handling manufacturing, operations and IT at Lam Research, Micron and Wolfspeed.
Published 09/18/23
In this episode of Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/), EE Times regular Sunny Bains (http://sunnybains.com/) talks to Elisabetta Chicca (https://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/bio-inspired-circuits-and-systems/chicca-group/?lang=en), head of the bio-inspired Circuits and Systems research group at the University of Groningen, about building neural chips with memristors, adding electronic brains to neural robots, some of the current difficulties with learning algorithms for...
Published 09/08/23
In this first episode of the new Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/) podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains (http://sunnybains.com/) interviews André van Schaik (https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/icns/about/people/researchers/professor_andre_van_schaik) from the Western Sydney University about how neuromorphic engineering has changed since the early 90s, a new project to help simulate neural and neuromorphic models, and more. Discussion follows with Giulia D’Angelo...
Published 08/31/23
Today’s episode, hosted by editor in chief Brett Brune, is first in a series of podcasts and articles on Diversity and Belonging in Electronics Engineering. You’ll hear from Electro Soft CEO Karla Trotman, on reaching the top.
Published 08/15/23
EE Times has just released the 23rd edition of the Silicon 100, our annual list of electronics and semiconductor startups to watch. In this podcast with Embedded.com editor in chief Nitin Dahad, technology journalist Peter Clarke analyzes the current dynamics of the global startup ecosystem and discusses emerging technology trends.
Published 08/01/23