Voices

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.
Voices: Summit Micro's Pat Brocket
By Paul Rako, 3/15/2007
Pat Brocket is president and chief executive officer of Summit Micro. Before joining Summit, Brockett was president and chief executive officer of Zarlink Semiconductor. Previously, he spent 20 years at National Semiconductor in various management roles.
Voices: Mercury's Craig Lund: guiding innovation
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, 2/15/2007
Craig Lund is vice president and chief technology officer at Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, MA, www.mc.com), a leading provider of computing systems and software for data-intensive applications, such as image processing, signal processing, and visualization. Lund leads Mercury's Technology Office in search of breakthrough innovations and disruptive technologies.
Voices: Cherokee International: Where in the world are design and manufacturing?
By Margery Conner, Technical Editor, 1/18/2007
When electronic-hardware companies perform research on where to build manufacturing facilities, they must consider more than just which country has the cheapest labor rates. In this brave new world of electronics design and manufacturing, concerns such as a country's technology, supply-chain infrastructure, point of consumption, and flexibility are equally important.
Voices: Richard Tobias: The SOC's the thing
By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor, 12/15/2006
Richard Tobias is chief technology officer at Pixelworks (www.pixelworks.com), a maker of SOCs (systems on chips) for the video and display markets. In his current role at Pixelworks and in his previous role as vice president of Toshiba's (www.toshiba.com) ASIC and Foundry Business Unit, Tobias has been an active participant in many IC-design-methodology and EDA-industry-r...
Voices: Microsoft's Amir Majidimehr: a "window" to the world of digital media
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, 11/23/2006
EDN interviewed Amir Majidimehr, corporate vice president of the Consumer Media Technology Group within the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft. His team delivers Microsoft digital-media technology to mobile operators and consumer-electronics manufacturers and owns Microsoft's digital-rights-management and advanced-media strategies, including HD DVD.
Voices: HP's Paul Tuttle: the man in the moon
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 10/26/2006
After a stint in the Air Force, Paul Tuttle started his career in 1966 with Filtron, which provided RFI testing on everything from Caterpillar tractors to NASA space hardware. That's how his name ended up on the moon, engraved on pieces of Surveyor 3. After leaving Filtron, he worked at RCA as a technician.
Voices: Digi-Key: growing up, privately
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, 9/28/2006
Engineer Ronald Stordahl, inventor of the Digi-Key electronic-telegraph key, founded Digi-Key (www.digi-key.com) in 1972. The company went on to become the sixth-largest catalog-electronic-component distributor. EDN recently interviewed Mark Larson, president and chief operating officer.
Voices: Modular instrumentation: LXI challenges PXI
By Staff, 9/1/2006
EDN asked representatives of LXI and the PXI Systems Alliance to explain why they believe that their camp offers the best modular-instrumentation approach.
Voices: Digi's Joel Young
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, 8/3/2006
Building better networks
Voices: Pat Gelsinger
By Ed Sperling, Editor in Chief, Electronic News, 7/6/2006
Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, recently talked about Intel's future directions, how the company will build on its core competencies, and new processors and who will benefit from them. Excerpts of that interview follow, and you can find the full interview at www.
Voices: Kris Pister and Ben Cook
By Margery Conner, Technical Editor, 6/8/2006
Not too long ago, hotshot hardware-design engineers accrued bragging rights based on how many millions of transistors their chips had or how fast they were. Thanks to Moore's Law, transistors and speed are now less frequently the limiting factors of chip design. Rather, minimizing power and its attendant heat now indicates a clever design.
Voices: Chandu Visweswariah: IBM innovation brings statistics to digital-IC design
By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor, 5/11/2006
Chandu Visweswariah, along with Kerim Kalafala, lead a team of R&D engineers at IBM Research and IBM Electronic Design Automation. Their small group recently won EDN's Innovator of the Year award for developing the EinsTimer statistical-timing tool, which also took top honors in the EDA Design and Implementation Tools category.

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