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Engineering in the age of MTV

Engineering is not cool. Probably hasn’t been for a generation and a half now. I have a solution – we should hire Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears (and of course! We’ll bring in someone like Brad Pitt for the girls) to do engineering PSA’s (”You know what I like between me [...]

Second-class citizens…

So I was searching around for some info on DFM lately, and I ran across an interview of Walter Ng of Chartered Semiconductor at Peggy Aycinena’s EDA Confidential. He had some good points about DFM, DFY, and the lack of clear definitions and such. Then it came to the question of how DFT [...]

The shrinking engineering paycheck

Well, I’m back, after a month of hectic crap that had me going in several other different directions. I still want to do this. I still want to dig into DFT practices, advances in related tools, etc. There’s a lot to talk about. And in my opinion, DFT is still somewhat [...]