ED_EDA Alert Update_: Go To DAC, For Your Career's Sake . . .
EDA Alert e-Newsletter | May 20, 2008
Learn Strategies for Reducing Cost of Test at the 2008 Automated Test Summit Leading test and measurement companies worldwide are taking part in this virtual industry event, hosted by National Instruments, to share their tips and best practices for reducing cost of test. By participating in this online event, you can experience the presentations, exhibitors, and dynamic atmosphere of a traditional conference — all from the convenience of your desk. Access session overviews and register for this free event.
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Go To DAC, For Your Career's Sake . . .
By Limor Fix Associate Lab Director, Intel Research Pittsburgh
In order to have a long and successful career in the electronic design industry—whether you are a designer, engineering manager, or executive–there are three essential activities that you should do. First, enhance your skills and knowledge. Secondly, network with your peers. And last, monitor market trends.
Our editors have been busy! Come read their commentaries and check out exclusive videos from the Embedded Systems Conference, Mobile World Congress, APEC, and Embedded World exhibitions and see the technology of tomorrow from major players in the electronics industry.
Electronic Design Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito went all the way to Dubai for the International Electronics Forum earlier this month. Catch up with Joe on his travels to Dubai, and read up on panel discussions held at the event. Also, check back with the site for video footage of IEF 2008.
Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to: dbs@penton.com or, mail your material to: Ideas for Design Electronic Design 45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550 Paramus, NJ 07652
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As Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV), and Electric Vehicles (EV) continue to gain acceptance as viable alternatives to gasoline-powered vehicles, it is clear that HEVs will need light, compact, high-powered, high-capacity batteries to power their needs. Similarly, Li-ion batteries are gaining acceptance as a power alternative to Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries. Compact Power and LG Chem used this technology with their ER2 and ER3 Li-ion Electric Race cars to set records in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a long-standing tradition in Colorado Springs and the second oldest motorsports event in the United States.
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Live date – Weds June 11th at 2:00pm ET Hosted by: Electronic Design Sponsored by: Micro Power & Panasonic
Aftermarket Battery Packs - Revelations from Product Tear-Downs
Aftermarket battery packs are available for most portable devices. This webcast presents the results of several product tear-downs on aftermarket battery packs, and explains how substandard aftermarket packs can cut corners on cost, safety mechanisms, and battery performance. These tear-downs expose electronic & mechanical design issues, as well as good manufacturing and regulatory violations. Then, this webcast provides solutions for OEMs to manage and control their ecosystem of aftermarket battery pack suppliers. This webcast is applicable to OEMs of consumer and industrial electronic products susceptible to aftermarket batteries, such as medical, handheld radio, and data collection devices.
Thirty new titles have joined Synopsys’ DesignWare System-Level Library. The new members of the Library include high-performance transaction-level models (TLMs) for PowerPC, MIPS, and DesignWare IP. DesignWare System-Level Library models significantly reduce the time to create virtual platforms and are written in SystemC to work in any IEEE 1666 (SystemC)-compliant simulation environment.
UMC and Mentor Graphics have partnered on a new series of analog/mixed-signal and RF foundry design kits (FDKs). The FDKs, containing comprehensive and validated building blocks at the transistor device level, help IC designers to jump-start design cycles on UMC’s 0.13-um and 90-nm mixed-mode/RF process nodes.
Nominations for this year’s recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), sponsored by the EDA Consortium (EDAC) and IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA), are being accepted until Monday, June 30.
Mentor Graphics Adds Ponte Solutions’ Technology To Calibre DFM
In the latest example of the ongoing disappearance of smaller DFM companies into the maws of EDA’s bigger fish, Mentor Graphics has acquired the assets of Ponte Solutions. Ponte’s model-based design-for-manufacturing (DFM) tools are meant to analyze, predict, and reduce the impact of process variability during SoC design. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Webinar: Supercharging Products with Embedded RFID June 26 @ 2 pm ET Sponsored by SkyeTek
They may still look the same on the outside, but embedded RFID readers and software can transform products from the inside, offering manufacturers, OEMs, and product designers new opportunities for competitive advantage through increased efficiency, accuracy and product differentiation. With an seemingly unending list of products, RFID is a key technique to adding new functionality, increasing reliability and enhancing the user experience. At this webinar and interactive Q&A session learn the difference between RFID and existing barcode and contact technologies; and how embedded RFID has new applications in disposable authentication, smart shelves and cabinets, contactless payments, tracking, inventory and stock, and customizable configurations. Also catch up on unique technical and business considerations for embedded RFID and companies that are already implanting the technology.
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