Oct 29, 2026 · 39 min · 16 segments
Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Embedded Insiders, we're diving into Physical AI with Yaron Galitzky, Executive Vice President of the AI Division…
Yaron GalitzkyGuest
Vin D'Agostino
Tiara OliverHost
Rich Nass
If you think about how MCUs came to power, it wasn't really to run applications as we think of applications.
And if we go back to what we've talked about in the past, that embedded systems are basically basically designed and they do other things.
They're basically designed to monitor the real world around them and then do something to affect that real world.
I don't mean with connectivity and graphics and everything, but just a thermostat.
It's monitoring the temperature of the environment and then when it gets too low or too high, depending on what you have as a set point, it turns something on to affect that.
And so the ability to measure an analog signal like temperature very well means you can get very precise in your control.
had said, are you doing this with the MCU or with the discrete component? Because it seems logical to do it with a discrete component, and then you just flip a bit, and then you're back to digital.
You could do that, but the promise and the joy of MCUs is that a lot of those peripherals are integrated on chip, right? You've got MCUs.
the joy is that you don't have to hook up an external bus you don't have to put another part on it you don't have to worry about uh additional emi from transmission lines of you know digital signals going between chips on the board
Now you're, you just introduced a different animal, even though it's, what was it? Fun and, thoughtful and whatever the adjectives are.
If you think about how MCUs came to power, it wasn't really to run applications as we think of applications.
And if we go back to what we've talked about in the past, that embedded systems are basically basically designed and they do other things.
They're basically designed to monitor the real world around them and then do something to affect that real world.
I don't mean with connectivity and graphics and everything, but just a thermostat.
It's monitoring the temperature of the environment and then when it gets too low or too high, depending on what you have as a set point, it turns something on to affect that.
And so the ability to measure an analog signal like temperature very well means you can get very precise in your control.
had said, are you doing this with the MCU or with the discrete component? Because it seems logical to do it with a discrete component, and then you just flip a bit, and then you're back to digital.
You could do that, but the promise and the joy of MCUs is that a lot of those peripherals are integrated on chip, right? You've got MCUs.
the joy is that you don't have to hook up an external bus you don't have to put another part on it you don't have to worry about uh additional emi from transmission lines of you know digital signals going between chips on the board
Now you're, you just introduced a different animal, even though it's, what was it? Fun and, thoughtful and whatever the adjectives are.
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