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Roles shift as the embedded-systems design chain disaggregates 11/13/2007

Roundtable discussion: What used to be a fairly linear design chain has morphed into a nebulous ecosystem, with shifting responsibilities and new complexities. EDN recently brought together a who's who of executives from this new world to discuss the situation.

Where do engineers get the best education? 11/6/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: While some countries push more knowledge on students, a panel of internationally educated executives say there is more to creating great engineers than just facts.

Airing problems in wireless 10/9/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: Rapidly evolving technologies raise questions about data collisions between and within devices; future devices to become aware of what else is on the network.

The race for seamless connectivity
9/7/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: Vendors and carriers look to the unlicensed mobile access spectrum to bridge the gap between home, mobile and office voice and data communications around the globe; change is underway.

EDA, ESL in automotive: How do we get there? 8/24/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: When the automotive industry sees 22 million to 24 million cars and trucks recalled each year, but only sees 17 million cars and trucks sold every year, there’s a clear problem. And this problem is driving the automotive industry to turn to the electronic design engineering community for possible solutions for skyrocketing verification costs. A panel of experts discusses the options.

Voice over IP problems persist 7/20/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: Lack of management utilities and expertise, poor installation, overlay on complex data networks and interface with outside networks leave plenty of room for improvement in the quality of voice over IP service. TI's Brian Glinsman, Packet8 CEO Bryan Martin, Polycom's Jeffrey Rodman, and Dell’Oro Group financial analyst Alan Weckel discuss the future of VoIP.

Refining multicore concepts, part two 7/2/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: In this second of two parts on refining multicore concepts including homogeneous and heterogeneous processing, programming model standards efforts, concurrency and parallelism, a roundtable of multicore visionaries conclude their discussion on the paths to future programming architectures.

Refining multicore concepts 6/22/2007

Breakfast in the Valley: In this first of two parts on refining multicore concepts including homogeneous and heterogeneous processing, programming model standards efforts, concurrency and parallelism, a roundtable of multicore visionaries discuss the paths to the future of programming architectures and what it will take to get there.

Better supply chain information, now what? 5/25/2007

The world’s largest distributors have the greatest information gathering network on the planet to predict upturns and downturns, but the missing piece is how far up and down?