We think MLRelated fits perfectly well within the “Related” family, with:

• the fast growth of TinyML, which is a topic of great interest to the...]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:43:28 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1370/the-dsp-online-conference-right-around-the-corner It is Sunday night as I write this blog post with a few days to go before the virtual doors of the very first DSP Online Conference open..

  It all started with a post in the DSPRelated forum about three months ago.  We had just had a blast running the 2020 Embedded Online Conference and we thought it...]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:14:05 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1321/an-online-conference-for-dsp-fpga-machine-learning-and-embedded-systems-engineers Chances are you already know, through the newsletter or banners on the Related sites, about the upcoming Embedded Online Conference.

  Chances are you also already know that you have until the end of the month of February to register for free. 

  And chances are that you are one of the more than 3000 pro-active engineers who have already registered.

  But If you are like me and have...]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:10:16 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1244/free-goodies-from-embedded-world-full-inventory Chances are that you already know that I went to Embedded World a few weeks ago and came back with a bag full of "goodies".  Initially, my vision was to do a single draw for one person to win it all, but I didn't expect to come back with so much stuff and so many development kits.   Based on your feedback, it seems like you guys agree that It wouldn't make sense for one person...]]> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:11:43 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1234/free-goodies-at-embedded-world-what-to-do I told you I would go on a hunt for free stuff at Embedded World in order to build a bundle for someone to win.

  ]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:11:27 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1233/embedded-world-2019-live-streaming-report When the idea of live-streaming parts of Embedded World came to me,  I got so excited that I knew I had to make it happen.  I perceived the opportunity as a win-win-win-win.  

  • win #1 - Engineers who could not make it to Embedded World would be able to sample the huge event, 
  • win #2 - The organisation behind EW would benefit from the extra exposure
  • win #3 -...]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:03:25 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1232/spread-the-word Do you have a Twitter and/or Linkedin account?

    If you do, please consider paying close attention for the next few days to the EmbeddedRelated Twitter account and to my personal Linkedin account (feel free to connect).  This is where I will be posting lots of updates about how the EmbeddedRelated.tv live streaming experience is going at Embedded World.

    The most...]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:37:35 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1231/launch-of-embeddedrelated-tv With the upcoming Embedded Word just around the corner, I am very excited to launch the EmbeddedRelated.tv platform.  

    This is where you will find the schedule for all the live broadcasts that I will be doing from Embedded World next week.  Please note that the schedule will be evolving constantly, even during the show, so I suggest your refresh the page...]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:00:12 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1227/embedded-world-2019-going-live For those of you who won't be attending Embedded World this year, I will try to be your eyes and ears by video streaming live from the show floor.   

    I am not talking improvised streaming from a phone, but real, high quality HD streaming with a high-end camera and a device that will bond three internet connections (one wifi and two cellular) to ensure a steady, and hopefully...]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:36:39 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1226/what-to-see-at-embedded-world-2019 ]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:20:13 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1187/sensors-expo-my-story This was my first time at Sensors Expo and my second time in Silicon Valley and I must say I had a great time.  

    Before I share with you what I find to be, by far, my best 'highlights' video yet for a conference/trade show, let me try to entertain you with a few anecdotes from this trip.  If you are not interested by my stories or maybe don't have the...]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:30:32 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1169/who-else-is-going-to-sensors-expo-in-san-jose This will be my first time attending this show and I must say that I am excited. I am bringing with me my cameras and other video equipment with the intention to capture as much footage as possible and produce a (hopefully) fun to watch 'highlights' video. I will also try to film as many demos as possible and share them with you.

    I enjoy going to shows like this one as it gives me the...]]> Tue, 29 May 2018 15:15:57 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1154/upcoming-articles-maybe Many of you have the knowledge and talent to write technical articles that would benefit the EE community.  What is missing for most of you though, and very understandably so, is the time and motivation to do it.   

    But what if you could make some money to compensate for your time spent on writing the article(s)?  Would some of you find the motivation and...]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:17:50 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1148/embedded-world-2018-more-videos After the interview videos last week, this week I am very happy to release two more videos taken at Embedded World 2018 and that I am proud of.  

    For both videos, I made extensive use of my two new toys, a Zhiyun Crane Gimbal and a Sony a6300 camera.

    The use of a gimbal like the Zhiyun makes a big difference in terms of making the footage look much more stable and...]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:38:33 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1146/embedded-world-2018-interviews-demos Once again this year, I had the chance to go to Embedded World in Nuremberg Germany.  And once again this year, I brought my video equipment to try and capture some of the most interesting things at the show.  

    Something new this year, I asked Jacob Beningo if he would partner with me in doing interviews with a few vendors.  I would operate the camera while Jacob would...]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:25:14 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1082/finally-got-a-drone As a reader of my blog, you already know that I have been making videos lately and thoroughly enjoying the process.  When I was in Germany early this summer (and went 280 km/h in a porsche!) to produce SEGGER's 25th anniversary video, the company bought a drone so we could get an aerial shot of the party (at about the 1:35 mark in this video).  Since then, I have been...]]> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:10:27 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1071/segger-s-25th-anniversary-video Chances are you will find this video more interesting to watch if you take five minutes to first read the story of the week I spent at SEGGER's headquarters at the end of June.  

    The video is only a little more than 2 minutes long.  If you decide to watch it, make sure to go full screen and I would really love to read your thoughts about it in the comments down bellow.  Do...]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:11:37 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1062/280kmh_in_a_Porsche Those of you who've been following my blog lately already know that I am going through some sort of mid-life crisis that involves going out there to meet people and make videos.  It all started with Embedded World early this year, then continued at ESC Boston a couple of months ago and the latest chapter just concluded as I returned from...]]> Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:21:15 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1057/going-back-to-germany A couple of blog posts ago, I wrote that the decision to go to ESC Boston ended up being a great one for many different reasons.  I came back from the conference energized and really happy that I went.  

    These feelings were amplified a few days after my return when I received an email from Rolf Segger, the founder of SEGGER Microcontroller ( Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:22:24 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1054/esc-boston-s-videos-are-now-up In my last blog, I told you about my experience at ESC Boston and the few videos that I was planning to produce and publish.  Here they are, please have a look and any feedback (positive or negative) is appreciated. 

    Short Highlight

    This is a very short (one minute) montage of some of the footage that I shot at the show & conference.  In future shows, I absolutely need to...]]> Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:53:50 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1048/back-from-esc-boston NOT going to ESC Boston would have allowed me to stay home, in my comfort zone.

    NOT going to ESC Boston would have saved me from driving in the absolutely horrible & stressful Boston traffic1.

    NOT going to ESC Boston would have saved me from having to go through a full search & questioning session at the Canada Customs on my return2.

    Sun, 07 May 2017 00:40:31 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1042/launch-of-youtube-channel-my-first-videos-embedded-world-2017 I went to Embedded World 2017 in Nuremberg with an ambitious plan; I would make video highlights of several exhibits (booths) to be presented to the *Related sites audience.  I would try to make the vendors focus their pitch on the essential in order to produce a one to three minutes video per booth.

    So far my experience with making videos was limited to family videos, so I knew I had...]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:27:00 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1003/please-help-me-test-the-new-comments-system I thought it would take me a day or two to implement, it took almost two weeks...

    But here it is, the new comments systems for blogs, heavily inspired by the forum system I developed earlier this year.  

    Which means that:

    • You can easily add images, either by drag and drop or through the 'Insert Image' button
    • You can add MathML, TeX and ASCIImath equations and they will be rendered with...]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:15:57 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/930/3-good-news Last week, I announced a new and ambitious reward program that will be funded by the new Vendors Directory.

      This week, I am happy to announce that we have our firsts two sponsors!  Quantum Leaps & Abelon Systems have agreed to pay the sponsorship fee to be...]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:12:03 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/913/welcome-to-the-new-forum After months of hard word, I am very excited to introduce to you the new forum interface.  

      Here are the key features:

      1- Easily add images to a post by drag & dropping the images in the editor

      2- Easily attach files to a post by drag & dropping the files in the editor

      3- Add latex equations to a post and they will be rendered with Mathjax ( Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:31:48 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/849/breaking-the-ice Breaking the ice can be tough.  Over the years, many individuals have asked to be given access to the blogging interface only to never post an article.  Maybe they underestimated the time it takes to write a decent article, or maybe they got cold feet. I don't blame or judge them at all - how many times in my life have I had the intention to do...]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:16:19 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/837/welcoming-many-new-bloggers The response to the latest call for bloggers has been amazing and I am very grateful.

      In this post I present to you the individuals who, so far (I am still receiving applications at an impressive rate and will update this page as more bloggers are added),  have been given access to the blogging interface.  I am very pleased with the positive response and I...]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:28:04 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/815/recruiting-new-bloggers Previous calls for bloggers have been very successful in recruiting some great communicators - Rick Lyons, Jason Sachs, Victor Yurkovsky, Mike Silva, Markus Nentwig,  Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:17:01 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/313/two-jobs For those of you following closely embeddedrelated and the other related sites, you might have noticed that I have been less active for the last couple of months, and I will use this blog post to explain why. The main reason is that I got myself involved into a project that ended up using a better part of my cpu than I originally thought it would.

      edit - video of the event:

      Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:52:05 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/13.php Are you an FPGA expert? If you are an have an interest in sharing your knowledge with the FPGA community, you might be interested in the new reward system for bloggers (see the blogs section here).

      The rewards will be based on page impressions, meaning that the more traffic a blog post will get, the faster it will generate rewards for the author.

      Basically, a given blog post will...]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:34:11 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/1.php For those of you who are familiar with my work, you already know that FPGARelated.com is not the only engineering web site that I publish. I also publish DSPRelated.com and EmbeddedRelated.com. Those two web sites have been on a new design for quite some time now and porting the new design to FPGARelated.com has been on my todo list for too long!  I am glad today to announce that I have...]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:57:28 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/9/new-discussion-group-dsp-fpga I have just created a new discussion group for engineers implementing DSP functions on FPGAs. The creation of this group has been on my todo list for a long time. If you want to join the group, send a blank email to: fpgadsp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

      As usual, it should take a few weeks before there are enough members for interesting discussions to get...]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:25:59 +0000 Stephane Boucher