Where Engineers Shape the Future
The Current is an application technology podcast series with industry-leading engineers that promises to keep you up to speed on some of the embedded semiconductor industry’s newest, fastest-growing and most exciting technologies, applications, and design techniques used by renowned experts. This season marks an exciting evolution with the introduction of the Executive Insights segment, designed to deliver deeper technical expertise and actionable advice from some of the brightest minds in the industry.
Experience endless episodes packed with entertaining discussion topics that cover the latest ins and outs of embedded systems as well as how to thrive in trending markets while avoiding common design pitfalls and staying ahead of the industry’s best practices.
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Todd Baker
Vice President, Advanced Engineering Group at Future Electronics
With over 20 years of semiconductor industry experience starting as an embedded systems design engineer, Todd focused his passion for engineering design working on systems from such diverse areas as video game controllers and medical patient comfort devices to cellular based vehicle tracking devices. He has since evolved his own projects to helping other engineers build the designs that move embedded electronics forward.
Which brings us to The Current, where Todd’s motivation that spans across the entire electrical engineering field, has led him to launching a new video podcast series, allowing him to expand his knowledge at the edge of where technology is going.
Through the video podcast and his leadership of Future Electronics’ Advanced Engineering Group, Todd Baker ensures design engineers around the world have access to a trusted partner at Future Electronics as well as his network of the world’s greatest semiconductor engineers.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode of our special Executive Insights series, Host Richard Interrante talks with Sam Geha, Executive VP IoT and Wireless Business at Infineon about data confidentiality and authentication.
In this episode, Todd talks with Steve Robbins Principal Field Applications Engineer: Radar, Sensors, & RF, Infineon Sensor Group about how advances in sensor technology are allowing us to keep up in our next generation of products.
This is a wrap on another exciting season of The Current. Thank you to all our guests this season. We look forward to Season 5!
In this episode, Todd talks with Steve Robbins Principal Field Applications Engineer: Radar, Sensors, & RF, Infineon Sensor Group about how advances in sensor technology are allowing us to keep up in our next generation of products.
In this episode, Todd talks with Russell Willner, Sr. Marketing Manager for Visualization and Sensing products at ams OSRAM about exploring Infrared (IR) and its capabilities in today’s designs.
In this episode, Todd talks with Doug Bailey, VP of Marketing at Power Integrations on whether there is still a place for designing custom AC/DC supplies, and what would be the best path for engineers.
In this episode, Todd speaks with Richard Interrante Director of Future Intelligent Solutions on how FPGA technology will continue to evolve.
Todd talks with Daniel Hou, Technical Marketing Engineer at NXP about his insights into Microcontroller technology.
In this episode, Todd speaks with Xavier Bignalet, Product Marketing Manager at Microchip on making our systems and designs safe.
In this episode, Todd speaks with Matt Rose, Senior Field Applications Engineer at Panasonic about new tools that are available to make these wireless applications easier to implement.
Embedded Security is often seen as incredibly complex, with engineers asking themselves the constant question of “how secure is secure enough?” To help answer that question, Todd speaks with Patrick Carrier, Product Marketing Manager at Infineon. They discuss how to understand security as well as the topic of implementing it in our systems.
The semiconductor industry is expected to grow to over 1 trillion by 2033, but as we enter this year and the instability of the global market, will that still be the trajectory? In this first episode of Season Four, Todd discusses with our very own Karim Yasmine, Executive VP of Global Marketing what the major areas of growth will be.
In this episode, Todd speaks with Markus Mayr, Product Marketing Manager at STMicroelectronics about how embedded engineers look to design this new technology into the next generation of our products.
In this episode Todd talks to Hunter Freburg – Technical Marketing Engineer at onsemi about how new wide bandgap materials, Silicone Carbide and Gallium Nitride, are enabling new levels of capability in our systems.
In this episode, Todd talks to Pete Pytlik, FAE Manager at LittelFuse. They discuss protection of EV embedded systems.
In this episode, Todd Baker speaks to Tom Wolfe, Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE) at Nexperia, about the constant new developments in drive circuitry around brushless motors and the considerations engineers must take in building that circuitry.
In this episode, Todd talks with Ralf Klaedtke, CTO of Transportation Solutions at TE about trends in the transportation technology industry
Join Todd for the launch of the long awaited third season of The Current. On this episode, we discuss the adoption of the Matter protocol for interoperability.
In this episode, Todd Speaks to Rick Dudley, Business Development Manager at Microchip about how engineers can make the choice to move from a microcontroller to a microprocessor for their applications.
In this episode, Todd speaks to Lazina Rahman, Future Electronics Technical Engineer and host of TechVentures, who is on location at the conference.
In this episode, Todd speaks to Martin Bernier, Director of the System Design Center the about how companies can partner with Future Electronics for their full engineering designs.
In this episode, Todd speaks with Doug Bailey, Power Integrations Vice President of Marketing and Applications, about wide bandgap technologies and trying to demystify when they should be used in system designs.
In this episode, Todd Baker speaks to Future Electronics’ very own Abhishek Gadgi, Image Sensor Specialist Engineer, about machine learning and AI in our applications.
In this episode, Todd Baker speaks with Brian Donavan and Jeff Katz from Panasonic about the key technologies on the periphery of 5G designs.
In this episode, Todd Baker discusses the topic with Dr. Richard Fix, Portfolio and Product Manager at Bosch Sensortec about their sensing solutions and how they can help accelerate the development of innovative IoT applications.
In this episode of The Current, our host Todd Baker speaks to Bob Card, ASE Marketing Manager at onsemi. The two discuss all things wireless technologies and what new possibilities are currently in the market.
Tackle the design challenge of designing a system from the ground up in this episode of The Current.
In this episode, Todd dives into the worldwide supply chain issues and how key suppliers are mitigating those effects.
In this episode, Todd speaks to Paul Schmokel and Bruno Boury of Melexis about Future Electronics’ current monitoring demo platform the Faraday Board.
In this episode, Todd Baker speaks to Erik Swenson, Vice President of Nichia America on the next phase of LED technology.
Learn how some extra considerations on timing device selection can greatly improve end products.
Discover the best practices for UVC and how the technology is helping change the environment around us.
This episode of the new season will explore women in engineering and how they inspire growth and innovation in the electronics field.
Get the inside scoop on lead times and worldwide market conditions of the electronic component industry in this episode of The Current video podcast.
In this episode of The Current, Todd Baker speaks to Mark Hubbard-Field, Application Engineer at Littelfuse, about ESD protection and how to ensure reliability in our designs.
In this episode of The Current video podcast, get a walkthrough on some system designs produced by Future Electronics to simplify embedded cloud design.
In this episode of The Current, Todd Baker talks with Kimberley Dinsmore of Renesas, exploring how to manage the time and cost associated with improved security in embedded designs.
A breakdown of the latest industry trends in temperature sensors and the next generation of thermal monitoring in this episode of The Current video podcast by Future Electronics.
Gain insight and ideas through the Future Electronics Northern Lights platform, the newest development board targeting intelligent machine vision in motor control applications.
For your Power Management needs, maximize battery life, efficiency and voltage regulation without taking up too much board space. In this episode of The Current, Todd Baker talks to onsemi about their best power solutions.
In this episode of The Current video podcast, explore facial or object recognition by integrating MIPI-based camera sensors & processors.
In this episode of The Current video podcast, see some new Technologies for Distance and Movement Tracking, Featuring ST ToF Sensors.
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