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Inside Electronics

Endeavor Business Media

Electronic Design has been serving the engineering community with pride for decades, providing news, commentary, and interviews about the industry. Hosted by industry veteran Alix Paultre, the Inside Electronics podcast brings you commentary, news, and interviews about the things going on in the electronic design engineering community and its surrounding business ecosystem.

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27:59

Why All These Flash Drive Form Factors?

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/31

Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factors (EDSFF) include E1 and E3 that have supplanted the conventional M.2 and 2.5-in form factors like U.2 in high end servers. M.2 slots are often found on motherboards but server removable drives are now dominated by EDSFF that support the latest PCI Express-based NVMe interfaces that provide massive throughput. In this episode, Sebastien Jean, Chief Technology Officer at Phison Electronics, about the history and evolution of drive form factors and how flash

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7:56

Addressing Advanced Connectivity in Extreme Environments

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/24

For more than six decades, Cinch Connectivity Solutions has addressed the demanding requirements of applications such as space exploration, delivering reliable, cost-effective solutions by leveraging its global team of expert engineers, manufacturing, and sales support. Cinch Connectivity Solutions’ CIN::APSE provides high-reliability, high-performance solderless, high-density interconnects for board-to-board, flex-to-board, and component-to-board applications.

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19:10

Power Renaissance: Capacitors at the Heart of Modern...

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/20

This episode of Inside Electronics explores how a “power renaissance” is reshaping electronic design, with capacitors playing a central role. Host Alix Paultre speaks with Eduardo Drehmer, VP of Product Marketing at TDK Electronics, about rising power demands from AI, data centers, and electric vehicles, and how this pushes efficiency, thermal management, and reliability to the forefront.Alix and Eduardo explain how multilayer ceramic, aluminum electrolytic, and film capacitors each evolve to

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15:16

Economic Development and the Electronics Industry

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/17

The Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) recently spent time in Europe visiting various cities and attending major trade shows in Germany to build bridges and expand contacts in the electronics industry. In this podcast, we talk to Troels Adrian, EVP of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, about the council’s efforts as well as some of their success stories.

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17:03

Smart Solid-State Relays: Quietly Powering the Next...

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/13

This episode of Inside Electronics features Alix Paultre, Editor at Large for Electronic Design, and Dr. Hugo Guzman, Product Marketing Manager-Integrated Circuits at Littelfuse. Alix and Hugo discuss how smart solid-state relays (SSRs) are reshaping residential, commercial, and industrial building automation.As engineers pack more HVAC controls, access systems, smart thermostats, sensors, and wireless modules into existing infrastructure, they must meet tight EMC, EMI, safety, and form-factor

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12:38

AI and Edge Computing in Advanced Test

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/10

AI has been a powerful force in the embedded electronics industry, although it is still in its infancy. It has a great promise to automate systems in every facet of the industry, yet it isn’t a silver bullet (yet). In this episode, we talk to Rudy Sengupta, VP & General Manager of Emerson NI, about the company’s latest efforts in the space.

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15:17

Advanced Video AI Processing on the Edge

Inside Electronics ·

2026/03/03

Axelera’s artificial intelligence processing unit is akin to the neural processing units (NPU) and are designed to handle AI inferencing while using very little power. Their quad core Metis AIPUs delivers 214 TOPs at under 4 W. It is available as a chip as well as on boards like their M.2 module. The company's latest Europa delivers up to 629 TOPs and can handle even more streams. Alexis Crowell, General Manager of Americas & Global CMO, talks about Axelera's Metis and Europa chips as well as

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11:19

Powering Industrial Automation in Harsh Environments

Inside Electronics ·

2026/02/27

In this episode of the Inside Electronics podcast, we explore how modern industrial automation relies on robust, well designed power supplies to keep demanding systems running reliably. Host Alix Paultre, Editor-at-Large of Electronic Design, speaks with Mike Swenson, Marketing Manager for TRACO North America, about why industrial environments are among the toughest places for electronics, from electrical noise and extreme temperatures to vibration, dust, and moisture.They explain how AC/DC

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40:18

Engineering Trends in 2026

Inside Electronics ·

2026/02/24

For our 100th Inside Electronics podcast we decided to get some of the Electronic Design editors together to discuss a range of topics addressing technology trends in 2026. In this episode we touch on topics that the editors chose from processing hardware to power transistors. We hope you enjoy it. Stay tuned for more on Inside Electronics.

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9:23

Oscilloscope Touts Speed, Precision, & Portability

Inside Electronics ·

2026/02/17

Presented as the most compact 8-channel oscilloscope with MSO, generator, and a large (11.6-inch) display, the R&S MXO 3 Series puts a lot of functionality in a small package. In this episode, Alix Paultre and Rohde & Schwarz's Noha Ibrahim discusses the company's latest oscilloscope.

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60:42

The Rise of the Integrated Voltage Regulator

Inside Electronics ·

2026/02/10

While at least a dozen companies offer excellent solutions to deliver the ultra-high currents required to power modern GPUs, Ferric developed a unique capability to integrate thin-film magnetic power inductors within their devices’ packages that eliminates the need for bulky external components. As a result, they can create chip-scale power converters that integrate interface, telemetry, feedback control, and powertrain circuitry.In this episode of Inside Electronics, Noah Sturken sits down with

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27:50

Using emApps Virtual Machine in Embedded Applications

Inside Electronics ·

2026/02/03

There are all kinds of virtual machines (VM) available and many are being employed in embedded applications. Platforms like the Java virtual machine (JVM) are used on servers and embedded applications with features like garbage collection. Unfortunately, these can have a lot of overhead making them less desirable for small, microcontroller-based systems. Rolf Segger, Founder of Segger Microcontroller Systems, talks about the company's new emApps virtual platform.

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14:05

Developing Advanced Edge Computing Solutions

Inside Electronics ·

2026/01/27

The cloud and IoT are growing and expanding in complexity in a variety of ways as the core technologies behind the devices and related infrastructure evolve and mature. In this episode, we talk to Nebu Philips, Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development at Synaptics, about where we are and where we want to go with edge computing, AI, and the Cloud.

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19:51

The Future of the IoT

Inside Electronics ·

2026/01/13

IoT empowers intelligent machines to provide advanced functionality to society, but it isn’t easy to get there from here. Key aspects of development include the importance of creating tools that empower others, the role of the market ecosystems in driving adoption, and the challenges in the infrastructure needed to bring connected technologies to the market. We talk to Alistair Fulton, CEO of IoT Labs, about the future of the marketplace

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16:37

Time Sensitive Networking, Synchronization and Sensors

Inside Electronics ·

2026/01/06

Industrial subsystems are distributed so communication between these subsystems needs to preserve this information and deliver it in a timely fashion. This is where time sensitive networking (TSN) comes into play. We talk to Mark Geisler, Marketing Manager at Analog Devices, about the future of TSN in plug-and-play industrial networks as well as the technical and organizational challenges that engineers face when incorporating TSN into their systems.

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22:46

What’s New in PCI Express Gen 8?

Inside Electronics ·

2025/12/23

The PCI-SIG PCI Express Gen 7 standard is now available but work has not stopped there. PCIe Gen 8 is on the horizon and with a planned doubling of the bandwidth to 256 GT/s. This will be challenging from a number of perspectives from support copper connections at this speed to advancements in the protocol.

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13:36

FPGAs and Time Sensitive Networking in Industrial...

Inside Electronics ·

2025/12/16

In this episode, Electronic Design talks to Karl Wachswender, Senior Principal System Architect at Lattice Semiconductor. Lattice is well known for its power efficient FPGAs that support artificial intelligence (AI) applications. They also address post-quantum cryptography, and are found in demanding applications like automotive.

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15:57

Creating On-Chip MEMS Sensors in CMOS

Inside Electronics ·

2025/12/09

Nanusens creates nanoscale sensor structures inside the CMOS layers using standard CMOS processes within the same production flow as making the control electronics on the same chip. This approach reduces the size and cost as it benefits from the vast economies of scale of using giant CMOS fabs. The resulting single chip solution has a packaged size of 0.5 mm³. This episode delves into the technology, its future, and some limitations.

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9:05

Utilizing Time-Sensitive Networking in Industrial...

Inside Electronics ·

2025/12/02

Christian Bornschein, Manager of Marketing & Sales at Port Industrial Automation, talks about how Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is employed in industrial automation. We also discuss some real-world examples and how TSN enables simpler, more effective industrial control product development.

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23:48

RAID in the NVMe Era

Inside Electronics ·

2025/11/25

RAID, redundant array of independent disks, uses redundancy to provide a more robust disk drive array capable of operation even with the loss of a drive. RAID 1 replicates data with a 50% overhead. RAID 5 and 6 are more common in larger arrays with less overhead as more drives are added to the mix but with a tradeoff in performance. Mark Anthony, Product Line Manager at Microchip Technology, talks about the company's SmartRAID 4300 Series, which is designed to accelerate the operation of RAID

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