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Check in regularly as veteran technology journalist John Edwards interviews an expert in a key emerging technology.
To learn more about John, and to view a library of his his recent articles, visit GoJohnEdwards.com.
Conversations With Leaders on the Information Technology Frontier
Stay on top of crucial IT trends. Listen to veteran journalist John Edwards as he talks with leading experts in hardware, software and related fields.
Duration: 19:37 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 64 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Electronic Parts Counterfeiting
- A continuing flood of counterfeit electronic components is leading to unreliable and unsafe consumer, business and military products, potentially hurting reputations, bottom lines and even innocent people. In this podcast, John Edwards speaks with Paul Romano, chief operating officer of components distributor Fusion, about counterfeiting's impact on the electronics industry, the forces behind counterfeiting, and how enterprises can identify fake parts and protect themselves against counterfeiters.
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Duration: 16:13 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 64 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Solid State Lighting
- Solid state lighting literally promises to change the way we see the world. But before a new generation of efficient LED lighting can step forward to replace incandescent, fluorescent and other existing lighting fixtures, chip control and related technologies must be addressed and understood.
Vipin Bothra, an application engineer at STMicroelectronics, talks with John Edwards, an Electronic Design contributing editor, about chip control and other solid state lighting technologies and design issues.
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Duration: 11:41 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 128 KBPS - Frequency: 48000 HZ
Understanding Ultracapacitors
- Ultracapacitors store electricity by physically separating positive and negative charges, unlike batteries, which perform the same task chemically. Ultracapacitors hold less electricity than batteries, but absorb and release it much more quickly, usually in a matter of seconds. The ability to absorb and release electricity rapidly is crucial for time-sensitive electricity storage, including power grid frequency regulation, fast vehicle acceleration, and capturing energy from vehicle braking. To learn more about this technology, John recently spoke with Chad Hall, chief operating officer of ultracapacitor manufacturer Ioxus.
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Duration: 15:38 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 96 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Navigating the Smart Grid
- The 20th century power grid is now being updated with 21st century technologies. The emerging Smart Grid promises more efficient power management, potential energy savings and new opportunities for electronics manufacturers working in a wide range of sectors.
For a peek inside the smart grid, John recently spoke with Marie Hattar, Cisco Systems' vice president of smart grid solutions.
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Duration: 20:29 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 96 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Solid State Storage
Solid state storage is already found in mobile phones, media players, digital cameras and numerous other devices. The technology is now headed into PCs and servers. John speaks with David Flynn, president and CTO of Fusion-io, about solid state storage and its applications and design challenges.
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Duration: 17:58 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 96 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Getting Ready for USB 3.0
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By 2013, SuperSpeed USB will represent approximately 30 percent of the USB market, according to industry research firm In-Stat.
The USB 3.0 specification was developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, consisting of Intel, HP, Microsoft, NEC, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments.
To learn more about USB 3.0 and its promises and design challenges, I recently spoke with Chuck Trefts at Ellisys, a USB test and measurement company.
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Duration: 18:30 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 96 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Designing an Energy-Efficient Future
- While consumers and businesses have a growing appetite for new technologies, energy sources are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Analog Device's Jon Perzow discusses today's low-power design challenges and what the semiconductor industry is doing to help companies introduce more energy efficient products.
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Duration: 19:10 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 96 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Printed Batteries
- An emerging generation of thin, flexible, paper-based batteries is now finding a home powering tiny label displays, smart cards, RFID tags and other mobile devices requiring only modest amounts of energy. To learn more about printed batteries and the technology's design applications, John recently spoke with Gary Johnson, president and CEO of Blue Spark, a printed battery vendor located in Westlake, Ohio.
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Duration: 29:55 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 56 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Tracking IT Assets With RFID
- Victor Vega, director of technical services for RFID Alien Technology talks with John about designing and deploying an RFID-based IT asset tracking system.
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Duration: 13:55 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 32 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Virtualization Security
Noah Broadwater, vice president of information services at New York-based Sesame Workshop, talks about the importance of security in virtualized IT environments.
Read the full story in Computerworld.
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