Entries from September 2008
Day in the Life of an Agilent EEsof EDA Chiphead
Posted November 25th, 2008 by Colin Warwick · 6 Comments · Humor
My entry to the DesignCon® 2009 Video Contest is entitled "Day in the Life of an Agilent EEsof EDA Chiphead®". Is there really an upcoming ISO 1984 standard? Find out in this (hopefully) hilarious parody of a famous series of YouTube videos.
For details on how to enter [...]
Tags: agilent ads·chiphead·DesignCon·does it blend?·video contest
What Social Media Web Sites Do Signal Integrity Engineers Use?
Posted November 17th, 2008 by Colin Warwick · 3 Comments · Survey
Social media can be broadly defined as "groups of people conversing and exchanging information online."
Signal integrity engineers started using social media — also known as Web 2.0 — long before it was ever called by those names: the signal integrity e-mail reflector ("si-list") fits the definition.
Ray Anderson, the founder of si-list, kindly let [...]
Tags: del.icio.us·Digg·Facebook·linkedin·social media·stumbleupon·twitter·web 2.0
Ten Habits Of Highly Successful High Speed Serial Link Designers
Posted November 3rd, 2008 by Eric Bogatin · Add the First Comment · Guest Post
Guest post by Eric Bogatin, signal integrity evangelist.
We microwave minute-rice to cook it faster. We get our news from the one liners of late night talk show comedians. In this perspective, I gave a talk — as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE EMC society — on "Ten Habits of Highly Successful Board Designers." Everyone [...]
Tags: Eric Bogatin·habits·top ten list
Book Review - Bill & Dave
Posted November 2nd, 2008 by Colin Warwick · Add the First Comment · Books
Michael Malone says this of his book,
Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company:
“This is not [just] a history of the Hewlett-Packard Company, or a book of business theory, or a definitive biography of William Hewlett and David Packard. I have chosen to write this book this way because of the [...]
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