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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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