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The Making of an Engineer
Barry J. Sullivan  
5/23/2013   5 comments
Just because a few entrepreneurs make a lot of money without holding college degrees doesn't mean you shouldn't pursue an engineering degree.
10 Gbit/s SuperSpeed
Shamree Howard  
5/22/2013   5 comments
Here’s what you need to know about in the 10 Gbit/s SS USB 0.7 DRAFT.
Get Me an Ecosystem!
Jack Shandle  
5/21/2013   2 comments
If one morning an imaginary supreme-engineering-being woke up and decided there should be a discipline known and high-speed digital design, what kind of ecosystem would have to be built?
Wide I/O Brings Memory Interface On-Chip
Brian Bailey  
5/20/2013   8 comments
The interface between the processor and the memory is perhaps the biggest problem that most systems face these days.
Commercial Content in DesignCon Papers
Ransom Stephens  
5/17/2013   10 comments
DesignCon papers can’t be commercials, but that doesn’t mean you can’t air out the techniques used in your products!
Inspiring the Next Generation
Barry J. Sullivan  
5/16/2013   20 comments
We need to inspire young people to become engineers.
The Future Is Serial – No, Wait, It’s Parallel
Brian Bailey  
5/15/2013   6 comments
We still need serial interfaces for going off chip, but it would appear that parallel interfaces are about to make a revival.
Out of Control?
Mike Beaver  
5/14/2013   12 comments
How dangerous can it be to automate and control our tools and systems?
Capacitor Alternatives
Martin Rowe  
5/13/2013   8 comments
A DesignCon 2012 paper suggested alternatives to capacitors to improve power integrity. A presentation on May 2, 2013, highlighted those alternatives.
Calling all High-Speed Test Equipment Vendors
Jay Diepenbrock  
5/10/2013   2 comments
Wouldn’t it be nice if one of our favorite test equipment suppliers built a four-channel, limited function pattern generator for driving aggressor channels?
Rated E for Everyone
Barry J. Sullivan  
5/9/2013   6 comments
Will technical conferences change in order to reach the next generation of engineers?
If DesignCon Were a Person
Katie Stern  
5/8/2013   8 comments
Take a survey of your DesignCon experience.
EE Scams I Have Known
Jack Shandle  
5/7/2013   11 comments
Anyone who earns a living by creating intellectual property is likely to be approached by somebody who wants to use it without payng for it.
Is DesignCon Ready for Photonics?
Ransom Stephens  
5/6/2013   18 comments
DesignCon2014 wants more optics papers. Here are some ideas of what might fit, and the tracks to which they should be submitted.
What Would You Do With 18 Hours?
Eric Bogatin  
5/3/2013   3 comments
Long flights are a great time to catch up on technical reading.
History of DesignCon, Part 2
Barry J. Sullivan  
5/2/2013   9 comments
How HP's (Agilent's) Design SuperCon evolved into DesignCon.
Jitter Visualization, Part 3: Inter-Symbol Interference
Daniel Chow  
5/1/2013   6 comments
ISI occurs when high-frequency signal components are lost because of limited channel bandwidth.
SAS Plugfests & 2 Tylenol Please
Shamree Howard  
4/30/2013   4 comments
With the recent support to 12 Gbits from 6 Gbits speed change, designers are seeing more EMI and crosstalk than ever before, which can lead to a headache of problems and most likely end up with a closed eye that the receiver cannot decipher.
Noise in 2 Dimensions
Brian Bailey  
4/29/2013   11 comments
So I intend to totally put my foot in it, with the intention of learning something even if the starting point is making me look stupid.
History of DesignCon, Part 1
Barry J. Sullivan  
4/25/2013   10 comments
Barry Sullivan, with quotes from Agilent's Karl Kachigan, explains how DesignCon started.
How to Use DesignCon Community
Martin Rowe  
4/24/2013   8 comments
Learn some tips and tricks for using the site to your advantage.
The Next-Bench Effect
Shiv Balakrishnan  
4/23/2013   7 comments
What has replaced the "Next-Bench Effect" in the design community?
Testbeds: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Jack Shandle  
4/22/2013   7 comments
I wonder if there is a way to shine the light of objectivity on "specmanship" prior to product launch. Perhaps a vapor testbed might be in order?
Let the Planning Begin
Barry J. Sullivan  
4/19/2013   7 comments
It's time to create the DesignCon 2014 call for submissions.
Jitter Visualization, Part 2: Periodic Jitter
Daniel Chow  
4/18/2013   6 comments
Periodic jitter has special characteristics that are easily seen in these video simulations.
Characterize a 28 Gbit/s Transceiver
Colin Warwick  
4/17/2013   5 comments
De-embedding is an imporatn tool for seeing the signal at an inaccessible IC pin.
Possible Big Bang Theory Argument: Heisenberg or Schrodinger?
Brian Bailey  
4/16/2013   8 comments
As I was watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory the other day, I thought about the kind of argument that Howard and Sheldon might get into if the subject of probes came up.
MIPI D-PHY & M-PHY Interfaces & Alphabet Soup
Shamree Howard  
4/15/2013   8 comments
Many times, when designers say they are working on MIPI, it doesn't really clarify that much at all, since there are so many substandards it can be hard to keep track of them all.
Will 1 Gbit/s WiFi Be Enough?
Jack Shandle  
4/12/2013   24 comments
Or, more importantly, will it really be 1 Gbit/s?
Should We Bother to Create High-Performance Interfaces?
Brian Bailey  
4/11/2013   18 comments
Having accomplished real-time capabilities, we are now in the realm of faster-than-real-time, and downloading from a camera may appear to be one of those cases where you want that kind of speed.
2013: The Year of Official PCI Express Gen 3 Testing
Shamree Howard  
4/10/2013   2 comments
PCI-SIG, the standards compliance organization that directs the PCI Express specification, has an upcoming plugfest in April.
Keep on Learning
Eric Bogatin  
4/9/2013   10 comments
Just because we are out of college doesn't mean learning stops.
Jitter Visualization, Part 1: Random Jitter
Daniel Chow  
4/8/2013   6 comments
Learn how random events develop into statistical views over time and with sufficient samples.
Power, RF & Test Topics
Barry J. Sullivan  
4/5/2013   2 comments
Here are more topics for discussion at next week's DesignCon 2014 planning meeting.
Home Automation Is an Opportunity That Needs to Be Grabbed
Mike Beaver  
4/4/2013   10 comments
Right now, the thought of controlling more than two or three items brings an urge to hug your wallet.
Scalar Energy?
Michael J. Eager  
4/3/2013   2 comments
Scalar energy is claimed to be a limitless fourth-dimensional energy source, able to variously cure disease, reverse aging, exert mind control, or create beams with the power of nuclear explosion using a Tesla Howitzer.
Is the Frequency Domain for Real?
Ransom Stephens  
4/2/2013   8 comments
During a DesignCon panel someone suggested that the time domain is real and the frequency domain is artificial. The answer is buried in physics from relativity to flags blowing in the wind.
All SI Problems Have Been Solved
Martin Rowe  
4/1/2013   24 comments
The solution to solving all high-speed serial data design problems was under our noses all along.
Hybrid Instruments for Test & Measurement
Daniel Chow  
4/1/2013   4 comments
Dual-use test equipment could become as common as caving a camera in a cellphone.
Clarifying Insertion Loss
Eric Bogatin  
3/28/2013   6 comments
Insertion loss increases with frequency, resulting in lower signal amplitude.
High-Speed Design Topics
Barry J. Sullivan  
3/27/2013   6 comments
Technical tracks 7 through 10 cover high-speed digital design.
Get Serious on Differential Signals
Bruce Archambeault  
3/27/2013   4 comments
It's time the standards committees address the fact that differential signals aren't truly differential.
The Curious Case of the Insertion Loss
Eric Bogatin  
3/26/2013   2 comments
Insertion loss can cause a signal to lose amplitude. In serial data streams, that signal loss can result in lost bits.
Phones, EMI & Planes
Brian Bailey  
3/25/2013   15 comments
Would allowing the use of iPads during takeoff and landing cause a slippery slope of interference?
Probing BGA Packages for Memory Test
Shiv Balakrishnan  
3/22/2013   10 comments
Since fine BGA components include an array of solder ball connections that are, for practical purposes, inaccessible, how can probing be accomplished?
Next-Gen Engineers Speak Out at DesignCon 2013
Patrick Mannion  
3/22/2013   32 comments
Here’s another stick for NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg to chew on: make everyone get an engineering degree right after high school. Why? Well, it’s good for them. Just ask the five young engineering up-and-comers who shared their experiences, hopes, and dreams during a panel at DesignCon a few weeks back. But will an engineering diet stick?
Statistics, Jitter & Yao Ming
Daniel Chow  
3/21/2013   8 comments
The probability of a random jitter event is roughly that of an American man being 7'6" tall.
Board & System Design Topics
Barry J. Sullivan  
3/21/2013   3 comments
Tracks 4, 5, and 6 at DesignCon 2013 covered system co-design and board-level issues. Should that continue in 2014?
Signal Integrity & the Digital Designer, Part 4
Brian Bailey  
3/20/2013   6 comments
What about transmitters and receivers?
The Verification Effort
Sunil Kakkar  
3/20/2013   4 comments
Could it be that 50 percent of the SOC verification effort will be formal verification?
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Just because a few entrepreneurs make a lot of money without holding college degrees doesn't mean you shouldn't pursue an engineering degree.
Here’s what you need to know about in the 10 Gbit/s SS USB 0.7 DRAFT.
If one morning an imaginary supreme-engineering-being woke up and decided there should be a discipline known and high-speed digital design, what kind of ecosystem would have to be built?
The interface between the processor and the memory is perhaps the biggest problem that most systems face these days.
DesignCon papers can’t be commercials, but that doesn’t mean you can’t air out the techniques used in your products!
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High speed digital chip-to-chip link performance is often limited by jitter in the multigigabit per second regime. It is a surprising fact that jitter can actually be amplified by a lossy channel even when the channel is linear, passive, and noiseless. In this webcast we will cover the basics of jitter amplification and show you how to accurately analysis the effect in your system using ADS Channel Simulator.
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