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From lithography to test
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 11/27/2008
The need for the OPC DFM technique is becoming increasingly important as lithography companies turn to double-patterning as an interim approach that will serve until EUV lithography becomes available.

Tech innovation addresses societal, environmental challenges worldwide
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 11/13/2008
Intensive research and development in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology is critical for tackling societal and environmental challenges facing the world today.

Physics and economics
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 10/30/2008
Might engineers or scientists have some up-to-date tools to offer economists? And would the economists use them?
White spaces and black hearts
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 10/16/2008
Those pushing white-space proposals, including Google's Larry Page, need some lessons in real-world RF interference, and the industry should put white-spaces plans on hold until we see how badly the digital-TV rollout hurts broadcast television.
Why tout a demo board nobody can buy?
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 10/2/2008
Marketing types are dying to talk to people, go to lunch, and network. Engineers, on the other hand, want to crawl into a corner with some hardware and be alone.
The turn of Apple's worm: Success accelerates its stumbles
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, 9/18/2008
Paranoia was perhaps acceptable when Apple sold its products to only a few-market-share-percentage points' worth of perennial loyalists.
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, 9/4/2008
Many opportunities exist to use a little understanding, a little technology, and a little capital to make a significant decrease in fuel consumption. But rest assured that these things will not happen.
Hang up and drive; hang up and walk
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 8/21/2008
The cell-phone market is potentially huge. Sanjay K Jha, then chief operating officer of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technology, said in a June 11 Design Automation Conference keynote address that 2 billion people are wireless subscribers today and that, by 2020, 9 billion people will become potential customers.
Semicon West boosts solar power
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 8/7/2008
The international emphasis at the show suggests that North America has missed a key opportunity to capitalize on solar power, and, unfortunately, the situation is unlikely to improve.
The trouble with software people
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 7/24/2008
When you think about it, almost every major development in the last decade has been the result of overcoming the problems that software managers cause.
Where is EDA going now?
By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, 7/10/2008
Some important changes have been altering the EDA landscape for years, and these changes—in the geographic composition of the chip-design community and in the nature of the chip-design process—are now impossible to conceal.
The design-and-test merger
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 6/26/2008
An effective design-and-test strategy will require a holistic effort across the entire chip-design and -production ecosystem.
Fear of feature-itis
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 6/12/2008
Maybe teenagers like these little gizmos with a zillion functions, but I need a tool, not a toy.
Consumer electronics: too daunting for our addled brains?
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 5/29/2008
My conclusion: If you make a product with a user interface so poor that the average consumer can’t figure it out, then your product is defective, even if all the transistors, buttons, displays, and other components work.
When Web sites go bad
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 5/15/2008
One of the most frustrating aspects of bad Web sites is that the contact links on the site all go to the Web team that screwed things up in the first place. Complaining to a Web team about its Web site is like complaining to the police about police brutality. My friend Dave, like all my analog-design friends, is, well, a bit different.
Be careful what you promise: Lawsuit hinges on 'out-of-the-box end-to-end solution'
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 4/28/2008
I wonder whether an end-to-end solution would be preferable to a beginning-to-end solution and whether an out-of-the-box solution can truly push the envelope. I also find paradigms perplexing, especially when they shift.
Embedded-system design: Those devilish details
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, 4/17/2008
As you marvel at our industry’s electronic masterpieces, you can be sure of one thing: A team of embedded-system designers painstakingly analyzed and tuned all of the minute hardware and software details.
Hello, EDN readers!
By Karen Field, Editorial Director, 4/3/2008
You can expect to continue to get all the things that you love from EDN—and more.
External instruments here to stay
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 3/20/2008
Whatever the interface standard, real external instruments and systems that gather test data and external software that performs yield-learning and other analysis tasks must supplant embedded instruments.
EDN Innovation: Awards season comes to technology
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 2/6/2008
Engineers rarely receive the same fame as those that toil in some higher profile professions. But I don't know of a job that demands a better combination of technical savvy, theoretical knowledge, and creative thought process.
Overengineering: How much is too much?
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 1/17/2008
My father's WWII tale about Allied versus German telephones contained a valuable design lesson.
Open-cellular-network boasts lack substance
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 1/10/2008
There are dozens if not hundreds of products that might be more compelling if they integrated a cellular radio.
Holiday wishes target technological harmony
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 12/5/2007
From an accord among the high-definition DVD camps to signs of progress for UWB and Wireless USB, my list highlights technological developments that I believe would be good for the high-tech segment.
Development boards speed learning and product-development cycle
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 12/3/2007
How do you use development boards? Complete our survey on development-board usage, and you'll enter a drawing for a special development prize.
Mechatronics vision requires data standards and interfaces
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 11/20/2007
More and more people are talking about "mechatronics" as a distinct engineering discipline. I'm not sure that I buy that distinction.
Global Report highlights careers and reference designs
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 11/8/2007
This year, we change things up and look at the electronics-engineering profession, as well as the increasingly important phenomenon of reference designs.
H1-B questions hit EDN readers' hot button
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 10/18/2007
Our online career-oriented survey revealed engineers' strong feelings on outsourcing, education, and the profession most would still choose if they had it to do all over again.
Reach is key to broadband-based innovation
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 9/27/2007
You don't have to be far from the heart of Silicon Valley to find yourself without broadband coverage.
Is municipal Wi-Fi a technical failure or a business failure?
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 9/27/2007
The cities and service providers behind the Wi-Fi deployments completely misunderstand the potential user base.
PCB prototypes add value in the design process
By Maury Wright, Editorial Director, 9/13/2007
I would have guessed that most designers ordering prototype PCBs would not order the PCB in the target-system form factor.

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