Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by Steve Leibson, a freelance content creator and marketing/lead-generation consultant specializing in high-tech companies, former VP of Content for Reed Business, and former Editor in Chief of three publications including EDN. See my consulting Web site at www.sleibson.com and my history site at www.hp9825.com. You can email me at steven.leibson followed by the magic email symbol @ followed by att.net. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298.html?nid=3403 Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:09:03 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1730053373.html?nid=3403 Fred Brooks, who wrote The Mythical Man Month and who worked as an architect on several important IBM computers, recently published an article abou... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1710053371.html?nid=3403 Canon recently released a firmware update for its 5D Mk II full-frame dSLR that added 24-fps video abilities to the camera. This was a highly desir... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1660053366.html?nid=3403 I’ve never seen anyone go to the lengths that Australian engineer Dave Jones attempts to kill an electronic product. He tortures a Fluke 28-I... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/380053238.html?nid=3403 It was only a matter of time. Nobody doubts that solid-state disks (SSDs) will decline in price over time. The only questions are “How fast w... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1420052942.html?nid=3403 This morning at 3 am, Microsoft put a bullet into my newly purchased used laptop in the form of a Windows 7 update. A month ago, I purchased a used... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/930052893.html?nid=3403 You’d need to search pretty hard to find two people more qualified than Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan to advise you on starting an EDA company.... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/740052874.html?nid=3403 I’ve just spent the day at DVcon in San Jose and met a friend of mine, Gary Stringham, who consults on SOC and embedded systems design. He sp... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/50052805.html?nid=3403 I attended the EDA Consortium’s Annual CEO Forecast and Industry Vision shindig held at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose last Thursday night.... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1750052575.html?nid=3403 The US Coast Guard is shutting down most of the Loran-C (Long Range Navigation) base stations today (Monday). They are victims of the current feder... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1290052529.html?nid=3403 Buried under the mounds of hype connected to Apple’s iPad announcement was the tiny piece of information that Apple had designed its own proc... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1240052524.html?nid=3403 Time for a gratuitous movie review. The new movie Legion is a fantasy film loaded with CGI effects that suggests that God has gotten fed up with ma... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/890052489.html?nid=3403 Mobile phone cameras are everywhere. Nearly every mobile phone handset shipped today incorporates a camera and nearly a billion handsets ship each ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1960052396.html?nid=3403 You must have heard about Toyota’s recent woes with unintended acceleration. It’s been in the news for 10 years. Last week, Toyota issu... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/510052251.html?nid=3403 Once upon a time, many years ago, Pentax built a miniature SLR camera that accepted 110 film cartridges. The Pentax Auto 110 was the world’s ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/330052233.html?nid=3403 Number two processor IP vendor MIPS Technologies has just announced that Sandeep Vij is stepping into the CEO shoes vacated when John Burgoin retir... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/320052232.html?nid=3403 Every year in the spring, the industry’s real EDA gurus meet in Monterey to discuss the arc and future of EDA tools and the EDA industry. If ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1780052178.html?nid=3403 The Oxford English Dictionary—more generally known as the OED—has a nearly useless definition for metadata: it’s “data abou... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/580051858.html?nid=3403 Time was, when you spent hours chasing a design problem only to find it was caused by some obscure errata on a hard-to-find errata sheet, you had l... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1910051791.html?nid=3403 This blog post starts with a strange question: What would you have if you stuffed a wall wart with a 32-bit Linux computer complete with wired and ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1860051786.html?nid=3403 I’m sitting at the Las Vegas airport getting ready to fly back to San Jose while everyone in San Jose is presently flying into Las Vegas for ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1820051782.html?nid=3403 ONFi, the Open NAND Flash interface industry working group, announced today at the Storage Visions 2010 conference in Las Vegas that it is working ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1380051538.html?nid=3403 The new Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey Jr. opened today. Christmas day. My family went to see it. We loved it. This is not a Sherlock... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1370051537.html?nid=3403 I’m sitting here Christmas morning waiting for everyone to show up and I’m working on the computer. My machine beeps as it deposits an ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/910051491.html?nid=3403 Semiconductor memory is always in a state of flux. New semiconductor memory technologies emerge, grow in popularity, and take over the lion’s... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/110051411.html?nid=3403 Compared to hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state disks (SSDs) are fast. They’re an order of magnitude faster than the fastest enterprise-clas...