Edge AI was once a niche topic, but now it’s driving higher productivity and enabling smarter devices by deploying AI models directly on embedded systems at the network edge. These systems perform tasks like detecting people, body positions, or recognizing hand gestures with increasing accuracy and speed. In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, host Richard Interrante speaks with Remi El Ouazzane, President of the Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF Products Group at STMicroelectronics about how Edge AI performance in microcontrollers is redefining expectations developers have in designing systems to deliver more intelligent features with greater ease.

Wide Bandgap technologies have been widely adopted around the world. As more customers are aiming for higher efficiency, greater power density, and reduced energy losses, design engineers are seeing the clear path forward is through Silicon Carbide or GaN technology. In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, host Riccardo Collura speaks with Kris Casey, Vice President of Marketing for the Power Solutions Group at onsemi, and Sravan Vanaparthy, Vice President of the Industrial Power Division at onsemi about the focus on their advancements in Silicon Carbide over recent years.

Embedded designs typically start with choosing the right microcontroller or microprocessor, for everything from robots to smart wearable devices. As the central function control of the system, it is essential to choose an MCU or MPU solution that will give engineers the ability to meet their evolving requirements, and to bring their innovative designs to market quickly. In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, host Richard Interrante speaks with Justin Mortimer- Technical Marketing Director, Secure Connected Edge Business Unit at NXP about the importance of scalable embedded solutions and enabling designs with easy-to-use development software, board platforms, and code examples.

Machine vision in applications continues to grow in demand, so engineers must decide on the right sensors for their designs.  For many of these applications simply giving designs the ability to "see" the world around them is not enough. In this episode Todd talks with Steve Harris Senior Director of Marketing of Industrial and Commercial Sensing at onsemi about his insights into some of their latest imagesensing technology.

In today's embedded design, engineers have the capability to include System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs, which not only provide the flexibility of a programmable logic matrix, but embedded processing cores as well. FPGAs are also offering more advanced layers of security today for both design and data protection. In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, host Richard Interrante talks with Bruce Weyer, Corporate VP of FPGA business at Microchip about FPGAs that have advanced security features with the flexible compute power needed for today's intelligent edge applications.

From vehicles to industrial equipment, users have begun to expect systems to recognize and react to the objects around them based on visual interpretation.  Engineers often rely on more complex processors to do this in the design, and in this episode Todd speaks with Louis Gobin, ST Micro's Product Marketing Engineer on if microcontrollers are catching up and able to meet the needs of sophisticated machine vision in embedded designs.

New technology, new material are coming into the market, helping customers speed up their development, while getting better performance, higher efficiency and higher power density. In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, host Ricardo Gallura speaks with Clayton Pillon, Vice President of SiC Business Unit at Microchip about how Silicon Carbide has changed the game for power in embedded designs.

In a world that talks more about wireless, there is still a need for a physical connection for most of our electronicss both for communication and power.  Connectors and cabling remain a critical part of our designs, and that hard physical layer is challenged with needs to be more resilient, more capable, and cost effective.  In this episode, Todd talks with Ryan Petsche-Corporate VP of Interconnect here at Fututre Electronics about the trends that are impacting the area of interconnect in embedded systems.

So many applications where traditional silicon based device and wide band gap, silicon carbide and gallium nitride are widely implemented and used in among customers worldwide. In this episode of our Executive Insights series, host Ricardo Collura speaks with Angelo Rao- General Manager for Silicon Carbide and IGBT at ST Micro about the strategy and investment around power, especially in wide band gap devices and  silicon carbide.

Artificial Intelligence has changed the server industry over the last few years, and along with Machine Learning it's already making significant inroads into the embedded space with capabilities like voice recognition, object detection, and smart sensing.  In this episode Todd welcomes Daniel Hou, Technical Marketing Engineer at NXP to discuss how technical advances in the processor space can help engineers achieve the ability to design embedded processors in with significant capability but low power.