Voices

Voices: Newark/Premier Farnell's Gary Nevison: scoping out the Environmental Design of Electrical Equipment Act
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News, 9/17/2009
Gary Nevison, legislation and environmental affairs manager at UK-based distributor Farnell and its US company Newark, recently discussed the Environmental Design of Electrical Equipment Act and compared it with ROHS.

Voices: Asset InterTech Inc’s Tim Dehne: seeking growth in embedded instrumentation
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 8/20/2009
Tim Dehne, until recently a longtime executive with National Instruments Inc, has joined the board of directors of Asset InterTech Inc, a supplier of boundary-scan and embedded-instrumentation tools. Over a career stretching more than 21 years at NI, Dehne led global marketing and R&D at the company, which reported $824 million in revenues in 2008.

Voices: NXP’s René Penning de Vries: Moving beyond Moore
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News, 7/23/2009
René Penning de Vries, senior vice president and chief technology officer of NXP, spoke to EDN about how design and R&D is changing as we evolve passed the traditional definitions of Moore’s Law and into a new era based on value-added applications and guided more than ever before by economics.

Voices: Avnet’s Jeff Ittel: Think board to go broad
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, 6/25/2009
Avnet's Jeff Ittel discusses designing across the board and its benefits to distributors and engineers.

Voices: Is multimedia abandoning DSPs? Analog Devices disagrees
Interview conducted and edited by Brian Dipert, 5/28/2009
Denis Labrecque, marketing-programs manager at Analog Devices, sounds off on DSPs’ past, present, and future in audio, graphics, and imaging.

Voices: Signal-integrity experts speak out
Interview conducted and edited by Paul Rako, 4/23/2009
Two experts discuss signal-integrity challenges and their expectations for signal integrity.

Voices: Chip design in recession: a view from an ASIC consolidator
By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, 3/19/2009
Chip design in recession: changing times, changing models, and what they might all mean for designers.

Voices: Magma Design Automation’s Rajeev Madhavan
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, 2/3/2009
Rajeev Madhavan discusses the evolving EDA business, the state of the semiconductor industry, and the future of education.

Voices: Silicon Laboratories’ Mark Thompson
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, 1/22/2009
EDN asks the microcontroller-division executive about Silicon Labs' focus on 8-bit devices and supporting embedded developers.

Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, 12/15/2008
Executive discusses support for embedded developers, general-purpose versus application-specific products, trends in embedded-processor integration, and software.

Voices: Avnet LightSpeed’s Cary Eskow: illuminating energy-efficient design
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News, 11/27/2008
Cary Eskow is director of LightSpeed, the solid-state-lighting- and LED (light-emitting-diode)-business unit of Avnet Electronics Marketing. A 28-year Avnet veteran, he leads Avnet’s national team of illumination-focused engineers experienced in thermal, drive-stage, and optics design and has worked closely with LED manufacturers, advanced analog IC,

Voices: Dennis Monticelli, champion of analog innovation
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 10/30/2008
EDN talks to the National Semiconductor fellow and chief technologist about innovation—especially analog innovation—in a global industry,

Voices: CriticalBlue’s David Stewart
By Ann Steffora Mutschler, 10/2/2008
David Stewart, founder and CEO of CriticalBlue (Edinburgh, Scotland) talks about his company's approach to hardware/software co-design and the challenge of multicore programming.

Voices: Pentek’s Rodger Hosking: next-generation-radio architect
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, 9/4/2008
EDN talks with Rodger Hosking, vice president and co-founder of Pentek Inc, about high-performance data-acquisition, software-defined radio, upcoming technical opportunities, hiring engineering talent, and more.

Voices: 15 steps to starting your own electronic-kit business
By Margery Conner, Technical Editor, 8/7/2008
Limor Fried has made Adafruit Industries into a successful electronics-kit business, and, based on her own experience, offers these 15 practical steps for engineers who dream of starting their own kit business.

Voices: National Semiconductor’s David Anderson
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 7/10/2008
EDN's Paul Rako talks with David Anderson, National Semiconductor's chief technologist for power management, about his long and distinguished engineering career, his company, and the present and future of power management.

Voices: Synopsys’ Aart de Geus on investing to win
By Ann Steffora Mutschler, 6/12/2008
EDA leader discusses 'Frankenstein' flows, multicore trends, and the economy's impact on IC design.

Voices: Intellon’s Mark Hazen on the HomePlug AV powerline-networking alternative
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, 5/15/2008
How will today's diversity of powerline networking technologies sort out over time, how will the market potential be impacted until then, and how does powerline compete with, coexist with, and cooperate with other LAN and WAN interconnect approaches? Intellon's Mark Hazen fields these and other probing questions.

Voices: Harley Feldberg: the pulse of the industry
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News, 3/20/2008
Voices: EDN speaks with Avnet's Harley Feldberg about the economic situation, the growing role of Avnet in the design community, and the changing role of Asia in the industry.

Voices: GreenPeak Technologies’ Cees Links: wireless-networking visionary
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, 2/21/2008
Cees (pronounced case) Links is an engineer and the chief executive officer at GreenPeak Technologies, an international supplier of low-power wireless-system modules compatible with IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee. Based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Links has been a pioneer in the wireless industry and was involved in the establishment of the IEEE 802.

Voices: Security and virtualization in embedded software
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, 1/17/2008
Green Hills Software CTO David Kleidermacher discusses two hot issues in embedded software.

Voices: Chano Gómez on powerline networking's "universal" hope
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, 12/14/2007
How does UPA (Universal Powerline Association) technology cope with powerline noise? Why is it marketed as "200 Mbps" when it provides only a fraction of that? And is there hope for a true powerline standard? DS2's Chano Gomez provides technical and strategic insights.

Voices: Dave Fullagar, analog-IC designer and entrepreneur
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 11/20/2007
Dave Fullagar made his mark at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He designed the ubiquitous μA741 op amp, perhaps the most successful op amp ever.

Voices: Mark Wecht: Embedding high-performance technology
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, 9/27/2007
Mark Wecht is founder and chief executive officer of ESD (Embedded Systems Design) where he and his engineering staff constantly push the technology envelope in high-performance embedded-signal-processing systems. ESD specializes in software-defined radio, beam-forming technologies, real-time streaming data, and FPGA-based software and hardware systems.

Voices: IBM's Jeffrey Taft: Bringing intelligence to the power grid
By Margery Conner, 9/3/2007
Voices: Architect discusses what the intelligent grid entails, what benefits it promises businesses and consumers, and how digital-signal processing plays a role in delivering power.

Voices: VSIA President Kathy Werner on closing down an industry consortium
By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, 8/2/2007
Industry consortia are mostly, like diamonds, forever. Kathy Werner is president of the VSIA (Virtual Socket Interface Alliance), an industry consortium devoted to streamlining the selection and transport of semiconductor IP (intellectual property). She is also IP manager at Freescale Semiconductor. EDN recently asked her why VSIA elected to shut itself down.

Voices: Texas Instruments' Gene Frantz: bringing ideas to life
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, 7/5/2007
EDN asks Gene Frantz, principal fellow at Texas Instruments, a few questions about the benefits of semiconductor companies' doing systems design instead of just chip design.

Voices: Marvell's Nikhil Balram: A "visual-pipeline" view
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, 5/10/2007
In a wide-ranging Q&A session with EDN's Brian Dipert, a noted digital-video expert shares his views on trends in video processsing, flat-panel displays, digital TV, blue-laser DVDs, video codecs, media distribution, and much more.

Voices: Analyst Gary Smith: Semiconductors need a parallel-processing language
By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor, 4/12/2007
For nearly two decades, analyst Gary Smith has been a fixture in the EDA industry—advocating new tool flows and methodologies as the silicon times have changed. EDN recently asked his opinions on the state of the design business.