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Five weeks, Seven gatherings, Millions of words

By Peggy Aycinena on February 11, 2011

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Pack you bags and get going. The next five weeks are absolutely peppered with conferences!

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Tools for testing mixed-signal designs

By Peggy Aycinena on February 9, 2011

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LeCroy provides tools for designers to use after they get their boards back. The task's gotten harder, however, as mixed-signal testing moves up in speed.

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Ingenuity v. Innovation v. No Innovation at all

By Peggy Aycinena on February 7, 2011

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Some people suggest that innovation's no longer part of the landscape. What an insipid way to foment conversation among innovators.

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20 Years of Making Things Visible

By Peggy Aycinena on February 4, 2011

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When Concept Engineering opened it doors in 1990, RTL wasn't even around and schematics were the name of the game. Today, the world's a far different place.

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DesignCon: Terrific Tablet Teardown

By Peggy Aycinena on February 3, 2011

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EE Times' Brian Fuller and EDN's Paul Rako brought their A game, and a couple dollops of youth, to a lively tablet teardown in the ChipHead Exhibition Theater at DesignCon.

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The 2011 DesignVision Awards

By Peggy Aycinena on January 31, 2011

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With DesignCon each year comes the announcement of the DesignVision Awards. This year's list of winners tells us a lot about the future.

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The Race: Is it a global economy or not?

By Peggy Aycinena on January 28, 2011

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The world has, once again, found itself in a strange place. Every country wants to dominate, out-innovate, out-build, out-compete, and out-educate, but how does that jive with a global economy?

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Leading Indicators: DesignCon, EDSFair, ASP-DAC et al

By Peggy Aycinena on January 26, 2011

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There are all sorts of indicators to help track progress in finance and technology. The one that's rarely referenced, however, is the InBox which is probably the best indicator of all.

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EDA: The Mega-structure below

By Peggy Aycinena on January 24, 2011

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Here in the century of the Mega-city, aging subterranean infrastructures pose the greatest threat to safe, sensible and functional growth. The same argument applies to the tool infrastructure in EDA.

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Power v. Leadership

By Peggy Aycinena on January 21, 2011

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The VIPs are not making the news this week; they ARE the news. From CEOs, to Presidents, and Boards of Directors, big wigs on both coasts are grabbing all the headlines making us ponder the meaning of power v. leadership.

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