Obsolescence is something that many vendors dread. But fear not, help is out there. Just because a chip or a board is no longer available from your supplier, you may be able to find a replacement part, and you don’t need to build it yourself. Vendors like GDCA specialize in replacing parts that are no longer available. How do they do that, and is it a wise choice to continue with a product that’s no longer in production? Those are some of the questions I asked of “obsolescence expert,” Ethan Plotkin, the CEO of GDCA in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Most Recent Articles
Embedded Executives: Thomas Lee, VP, InnoPhase
The definition of “low power” can differ based on your application. Low power for an industrial system supplier can differ greatly from that of a medical device maker.
Embedded Executive: Chris Longstaff, VP of Product Management, Mindtech Global
Mindtech makes tools that help create vision data sets for training these neural nets.
Embedded Executives: Dusty Kramer, CEO, Eurotech
Rich Nass sat down with Dusty Kramer, CEO of Eurotech, to talk about industry specifications.
Embedded Executive: Joseph Sawicki, Executive Vice President, Mentor IC EDA
Testing doesn’t to garner its share of attention. It could be because test is not well understood. Or because a percentage of engineers feel that test should be handled by test engineers.
Embedded Executive: Dr. Phil Lessner, Senior VP and CTO, KEMET
The power that’s required to charge electric vehicles is quite high. And when you add wireless charging, the issues grow significantly.
Embedded Executive: Michael Duhamel, Vice President, SECO USA
To understand where high-performance computing fits in the industrial IoT sector, I spent this week's Embedded Executives podcast with Michael Duhamel, Vice President at SECO.
Embedded Executive: Andrew Longhurst, Managing Director, Wittenstein High Integrity Systems
Rich Nass speaks with Andrew Longhurst, Managing Director, Wittenstein High Integrity Systems.
Embedded Executive: David Dwelley, VP, CTO, Maxim Integrated
Rich Nass speaks to David Dwelley, a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Maxim Integrated.
Embedded Executive: Dave Hughes, CEO, HCC Embedded
This week's Embedded Executive highlights Dave Hughes, Founder and CEO of HCC Embedded. He breaks down where open source technology is well-suited, and where engineers should consider other options.
What Do Six Sigma and Thermal Management Have in Common?
The Embedded Insiders discuss 6SigmaET and how it increases reliability of thermal simulation.
Embedded Executive: Tom Yates, VP, Nubix
Rich Nass speaks with Tom Yates, Vice President of Products at Nubix.
Embedded Executive: Larry Blackledge, GM, Qorvo
Rich Nass interviewed Larry Blackledge, General Manager of Qorvo's Programmable Power Management business.
Five Minutes With…Cliff Ortmeyer, Newark
Cliff Ortmeyer, Head of Technical Marketing, Newark, was my guest on this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.
Embedded Executive: Sylvia Lu, u-blox
Rich Nass spoke with Sylvia Lu, who is the Senior 5G Technical Lead for 5G at u-blox.
How New Architectures are Overcoming the Limitations of Physics
New architectures for both memory compute and power electronics facing the limitations of physics.
Five Minutes With…Yunsup Lee, CTO, SiFive
This Five Minutes With…discussion revolves around the Chips Alliance, where Lee is a Board Member.
The Expansion of Wide-Bandgap
In this episode of Embedded Insiders, they welcome Peter Rogerson of Power Integrations, who talked about the company’s migration to wide-bandgap technology.
Enterprise Containers and the IoT – Foundations for Embedded Developers
In this episode of Embedded Insiders, we discuss a technology that’s rapidly gaining popularity in the embedded and IoT technology sector – Containers.
Why 100-Year-Old Analog Technology Will Never Leave Us
Why can’t we replace analog circuitry with new digital material that’s far superior to anything in analog?
Five Minutes With…Lawrence Romine, VP, Altium