Best Embedded System and Design Podcasts (2025)

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Transforming Remote Industries with StellarIoT and Insights from Renesas 1:00:10

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, we’re joined by embedded systems veteran Steve Yates, founder of ADI Engineering and now Founder & CEO of StellarIoT. Steve dives into his latest venture, a platform designed to support rugged, AI-powered digital transformation in remote industries—combining open software, rugged hardware, satell…

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Embedded Executive: Tune Your Compiler for ADAS | Solid Sands 11:12

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Compilers and ADAS aren’t often used in the same sentence. For developers, that anomaly can represent a design challenge, as compilers in general are not designed for this particular application, which also happens to be at the top of the safety and security checklist. To understand how these compilers should be tested and implemented, I spoke to S…

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SE Radio 690: Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems 1:03:44

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Florian Gilcher, co-founder of Ferrous Systems and the Rust Foundation, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the application of Rust in mission- and safety-critical systems. The discussion starts with a brief overview of such systems, and an introduction to Rust, emphasizing aspects that make it well-suited for critical environments. Florian and…

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047 | ADHD and Boredom - What AI Usage Does to our Brains 15:48

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Surprise! That restless twinge you fight with screens all day? It may just hold the key to your next innovation. Today, we dive deep into boredom - why it's no longer to be feared as a creativity killer, but embraced as a gateway to breakthrough ideas. Sure, AI can write emails and generate stunning visuals in seconds, but it still can't rival your…

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16. Building Learning Systems, Not Just Courses – Lessons from eLearningDOC 55:49

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In this episode of the Training Impact Podcast, host Jeff Walter sits down with three powerhouse leaders from eLearningDOC—Angela Robbins, Toni DiMella, and Diana Brandon—to unpack how great learning design happens when creativity meets structure. Together, they explore what it takes to turn subject matter expertise, operational chaos, and big idea…

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#523: Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python 1:07:00

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Python typing got fast enough to feel invisible. Pyrefly is a new, open source type checker and IDE language server from Meta, written in Rust, with a focus on instant feedback and real-world DX. Today, we will dig into what it is, why it exists, and how it plays with the rest of the typing ecosystem. We have Abby Mitchell, Danny Yang, and Kyle Int…

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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Hidetoshi Shibata, CEO, Renesas 31:57

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Every once in a while, we hit a home run when it comes to bringing guests onto the DevTalk podcast, and today we did just that. We managed to wrangle in Hidetoshi Shibata, who has been in his current CEO role at Renesas for about six years. Toshi was very forthcoming with us, as we went through his fairly colorful past, and more importantly, the de…

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SE Radio 689: Amey Desai on the Model Context Protocol 58:36

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Amey Desai, the Chief Technology Officer at Nexla, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in enabling agentic AI systems. The conversation begins with the fundamental challenge that led to MCP's creation: the proliferation of "spaghetti code" and custom integrations as developers tried to connect LLMs to …

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Embedded Executive: AI At the Endpoint | EMASS 11:56

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AI at the endpoint gets yet another boost from EMASS, a fabless semiconductor company that recently emerged from stealth mode. Having your processing at the endpoint presents a few significant challenges, namely the amount of processing that can be made available and the ability to run from a battery. EMASS has come up with a way to do this a littl…

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046 | AI Voice Notes: Saving Time Without Losing Authenticity 19:37

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Why spend hours crafting emails when your AI voice can do the talking for you? Welcome to the future of communication! Today we're diving into AI-generated voice notes: a game-changer for anyone juggling inboxes, meetings, and client calls. Imagine sending a polished voice memo using your own AI-cloned voice, even when you're off sipping cocktails!…

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#522: Data Sci Tips and Tricks from CodeCut.ai 1:09:32

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Bridging the IoT Connectivity Gap with Vodafone IoT 25:43

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Erik Kling, President & Head of IoT Americas at Vodafone IoT, discusses the connectivity gaps in remote healthcare and how cellular IoT connectivity supports challenges across industrial, supply chain, and healthcare industries. Next, Editor-in-Chief Ken Briodagh is back with this week's episode …

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SE Radio 688: Daniel Stenberg on Removing Rust from Curl 57:14

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Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult, what the project gained from the 5-year attempt to tackle bringing Ru…

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Embedded Executive: The Same Level of Security Is Needed Whether You Have One Device or Millions | Infineon and CommScope 19:30

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No matter what your end device is, be it a light bulb or a driver’s license, it needs to be secure. I don’t think we need to go through the reasons why it needs to be secure. How you do that is becoming increasingly more difficult. And you may be looking at protecting millions of devices, where each one needs its own unique identity. To get a handl…

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045 | A Meta Experiment in AI Voice Authenticity 14:50

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Imagine if the voice behind your favorite podcast episodes wasn't human—but you couldn't tell the difference. In today's unique episode, an AI-generated voice takes the reins, sounding eerily similar to our usual host. They're on vacation, but the conversation doesn’t stop. We dive into the realness of AI voice authenticity, exploring what it means…

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#521: Red Teaming LLMs and GenAI with PyRIT 1:02:40

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English is now an API. Our apps read untrusted text; they follow instructions hidden in plain sight, and sometimes they turn that text into action. If you connect a model to tools or let it read documents from the wild, you have created a brand new attack surface. In this episode, we will make that concrete. We will talk about the attacks teams are…

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SE Radio 687: Elizabeth Figura on Proton and Wine 52:17

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Elizabeth Figura, a Wine Developer at CodeWeavers, speaks with SE Radio host Jeremy Jung about the Wine compatibility layer and the Proton distribution. They discuss a wide range of details including system calls, what people run with Wine, how games are built differently, conformance and regression testing, native performance, emulating a CPU vs e…

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Embedded Executive: Move AI to the Endpoint | Ambiq 13:37

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AI is a technology that generally requires a significant amount of power and high compute performance. Hence, it’s typically relegated to the Cloud or to an Edge-based computer. Performing AI at the endpoint has not been feasible for those reasons. With ambiq’s Sub-threshold Power Optimized technology (SPOT), performing AI at the endpoint is a real…

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044 | From Conference Stage to Daily Business – How AI Shapes Creativity, Strategy and Sustainable Growth 15:58

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Ever returned from a conference brimming with insights, only to wonder how to actually implement any of it? Let's tackle turning inspiration into action. I just got back from the NEXT Conference in Hamburg, buzzing with ideas and old friends' laughter. As I ease back into my cozy office, I'm eager to show you how those grand notions can fuel tangib…

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#520: pyx - the other side of the uv coin (announcing pyx) 1:00:11

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A couple years ago, Charlie Marsh lit a fire under Python tooling with Ruff and then uv. Today he’s back with something on the other side of that coin: pyx. Pyx isn’t a PyPI replacement. Think server, not just index. It mirrors PyPI, plays fine with pip or uv, and aims to make installs fast and predictable by letting a smart client talk to a smart …

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Designing for Harsh Environments & Quantum Cryptography 33:30

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Rich and Jeff Baldwin, Director of Engineering at Sealevel Systems, discuss the process of designing systems for harsh environments and how Sealevel’s expertise helps customers get started with safe and reliable solutions. Our next segment is sponsored by Infineon Technologies. Rich Nass is joine…

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#519: Data Science Cloud Lessons at Scale 1:02:56

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Today on Talk Python: What really happens when your data work outgrows your laptop. Matthew Rocklin, creator of Dask and cofounder of Coiled, and Nat Tabris a staff software engineer at Coiled join me to unpack the messy truth of cloud-scale Python. During the episode we actually spin up a 1,000 core cluster from a notebook, twice! We also discuss …

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Embedded Executive: Manual Vs. Automated Code Generation | TeleCANesis 11:44

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We’ve done podcasts in the past that discussed automating your code documentation. But we haven’t touched much on automating the code generation itself until now. On this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, I spoke to Jonathan Hacker, the Founder and CTO of TeleCANesis, and that’s exactly what they do. We got into the issues of why automated coding…

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SE Radio 686: François Daoust on W3C 1:02:36

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François Daoust, W3C staff member and co-chair of the Web Developer Experience Community Group, discusses the origins of the W3C, the browser standardization process, and how it relates to other organizations like TC39, WHATWG, and IETF. This episode covers a lot of ground, including funding through memberships, royalty-free patent access for imple…

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043 | Where to Make AI Agents 22:15

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Ever felt like you need to clone yourself just to keep up? Why not let a digital teammate handle those mundane tasks with your flair and finesse? You're writing a new course module when suddenly, notifications fly in: reminders, emails, leads. Instead of chaos, imagine an AI agent taking over, handling the routine seamlessly. That's our conversatio…

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Embedded Executive: AI Is Hard. It’s OK To Ask For Help | CEVA 10:32

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Designing a device that incorporates AI can be daunting, for a good reason—it’s very complex. When you push that design out to the Edge, it brings in even more challenges, both on the hardware and software sides of the equation. To understand what these challenges are and where a designer can turn for help, I spoke to Amir Panush, the CEO of CEVA, …

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15. Learning Designs: Apprenticeships Beyond the Trades 54:01

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In this episode of the Training Impact Podcast, host Jeff Walter sits down with two seasoned leaders from Learning Designs, Inc. (LDI): Mary Carter, Founder and President, and Julie Hiatt, Manager of Business Development. Together, they explore how decades of experience in instructional design, workforce development, and corporate training can be a…

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SE Radio 685: Will Wilson on Deterministic Simulation Testing 1:01:14

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In this episode, Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, explores Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) with host Sriram Panyam. Wilson was part of the pioneering team at FoundationDB that developed this revolutionary testing approach, which was later acquired by Apple in 2015. After seeing that even sophisticated organizations lacked robus…

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042 | What's Your Towel in the AI Tool Universe? 19:33

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In the realm of digital chaos, the right AI tools act like a trusty towel from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" --> indispensable, adaptable, and surprisingly comforting. In our tech-fueled world, business owners are bombarded daily with shiny new apps promising the moon. Instead of grabbing every tool in sight, imagine carrying just a few es…

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Rust Roundtable & Energy-Efficient Motor Control with Microchip 30:18

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, we’re joined by Product Marketing Manager at Microchip, Pramit Nandy, to discuss the current trends and challenges surrounding energy-efficient motor control. Specifically, the shift between various motor types, control algorithms, and, of course, the importance of SiC and GaN. Next, Ken is back …

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14. Powering Franchise Excellence: How Batteries Plus Trains Experts in Charge 1:07:45

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In this episode of the Training Impact Podcast, host Jeff Walter sits down with Jason Moss, Vice President of Store Development and Training Operations at Batteries Plus, to explore how franchise training can drive business growth, brand consistency, and employee retention. Jason shares his unlikely path into training—beginning as an entrepreneur r…

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SE Radio 684: Dan Bergh Johnsson and Daniel Deogun on Secure By Design 56:43

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Daniel Deogun and Dan Bergh Johnsson -- two of the co-authors of the book, Secure by Design -- discuss the intersection of good software design and security with host Sam Taggart. They describe how following certain software design principles can help developers create secure software without needing to become security experts. They talked about ho…

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Embedded Executive: How Secure is Secure Enough | Silicon Labs 13:26

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Silicon Labs recently announced an MCU that has achieved the highest level of security possible to date, which is PSA Level 4. The questions you may be asking are, “What does that mean, and is this something I need to understand?” To get answers to these questions and many related ones, I spoke to Sharon Hagi, the Chief Security Officer at Silicon …

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041 | Future Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs in the AI Age 28:00

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Feeling lost amidst AI's relentless march forward? Relax, the secret isn't tech mastery, but blending innovation with your unique touch. Imagine sipping your morning coffee while AI drafts the perfect follow-up email in your voice. Sounds far-fetched? It's real, and easier than you think. In a world teetering on the edge of AI domination, discover …

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#518: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators 1:08:13

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Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps, responsibly. In this anniversary roundtable with its creators and long-time stewards: Simon Willison, Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplett, and Thibaud Colas, we trace the path from the L…

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SE Radio 683: Artie Shevchenko on Programmers as Code Health Guardians 53:30

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Artie Shevchenko, author of Code Health Guardian, speaks with host Jeff Doolittle about the crucial role of human programmers in the AI era, emphasizing that humans must excel at managing code complexity. Shevchenko discusses these concepts and key takeaways from his book, including the three problems caused by complexity: change amplification, cog…

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Embedded Executive: Quantum Cryptography Must Be Part of Your Vocabulary | Infineon 11:49

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We’re in the era of quantum computing. That brings with it a lot of great things. But at the same time, it brings some not so good things. Once again, we’re in a race to stay ahead of the bad guys to keep our systems secure. Folks like the experts at Infineon are doing what they can to do just that. And the best part is that they are trying to insu…

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040 | SEO vs. GEO - What is Generative Engine Optimization and Which Actions You Should Take Now 26:42

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Ready to abandon SEO? Not so fast - Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the evolution, not the replacement, of your tried-and-true strategies. Picture this: your beautifully optimized content isn't begging Google for attention but seamlessly appearing in AI-driven answers engaging potential customers directly. This shift isn’t a tech quirk; it’…

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#517: Agentic Al Programming with Python 1:17:01

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Agentic AI programming is what happens when coding assistants stop acting like autocomplete and start collaborating on real work. In this episode, we cut through the hype and incentives to define “agentic,” then get hands-on with how tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and LangChain actually behave inside an established codebase. Our guest, Matt Makai,…

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Building Embedded Systems with Sealevel + GenAI Insights from Soracom 42:34

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Send us a text In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Contributing Editor Rich Nass chats with Earle Foster, Senior Vice President of Sales at Sealevel Systems, about how to build embedded systems without starting from scratch. They explore when to rely on fully custom and off-the-shelf components, and where semi-custom solutions are most suitable. …

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Embedded Executive: Minimize Power in Today’s Data Centers | Point2 Technology 8:49

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The boom coming from AI is requiring data centers to be built as fast as we can build them. To that end, there is a lot of discussion about the power that’s needed to drive these data centers. What there’s not a lot of discussion about are the interconnects that are used within these power-hungry computing camps. And that’s the specialty of Point2 …

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SE Radio 682: Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce on Refactoring from Java to Kotlin 57:23

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Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce, co-authors of Java to Kotlin: Refactoring Guidebook, speak with host Giovanni Asproni about their hands-on experiences migrating Java codebases. The episode starts by highlighting Kotlin’s seamless interoperability with Java, allowing teams to incrementally adopt Kotlin without disrupting existing Java code. Duncan an…

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#516: Accelerating Python Data Science at NVIDIA 1:05:42

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Python’s data stack is getting a serious GPU turbo boost. In this episode, Ben Zaitlen from NVIDIA joins us to unpack RAPIDS, the open source toolkit that lets pandas, scikit-learn, Spark, Polars, and even NetworkX execute on GPUs. We trace the project’s origin and why NVIDIA built it in the open, then dig into the pieces that matter in practice: c…

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039 | How Much Better is GPT-5? 29:25

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If you've ever felt overwhelmed by AI tools or worried about losing your unique voice in a sea of generic content, today’s episode is for you. Let's explore what makes GPT‑5 special, why it matters for entrepreneurs and creators, and how you can use it to amplify your impact without sacrificing authenticity. Turn on your curiosity switch; we're abo…

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Embedded Executive: Thermal Issues Continue to Propagate | Ventiva 11:38

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For as long as we’ve been designing embedded computers and consumer electronics, we’ve had a problem figuring out how to handle the heat that’s created. Known as thermal management, the problem seems omnipresent as systems become more compact, processors run faster, and so on. Unfortunately, many designers don’t think about thermal management until…

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