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Sometimes signal integrity effects are counter intuitive, confusing or even downright puzzling. In this 40 minute speed training event, we will take a look at 5 effects to puzzle over as a group. The … More ▶
Speaker - Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelist, Bogatin Enterprises Eric Bogatin, signal integrity evangelist with Bogatin Enterprises, teaches advanced signal integrity classes worldwide. He received his bachelor of science degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1980. He has held senior engineering and management positions at Bell Labs, Raychem, Sun Microsystems, Ansoft, and Interconnect Devices
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| 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM |
GoPro recently released the Hero 3, a Wi-Fi-enabled, 4K-resolution-capable camcorder that can be submerged 197 feet underwater with its protective case. All that tech is housed in a package that measu… More ▶
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| 3:45 PM – 4:25 PM |
Find out what’s on the minds of young engineers at this panel presentation featuring students and recently graduated engineers where we will explore topics such as perceptions of engineers, outs… More ▶
Moderator - Patrick Mannion, Director of Content, UBM Tech, Electronics Panelist - Shachi Nandan Kakkar, High School Student, Cupertino High School Shachi Nandan Kakkar is a national level VLSI industry blogger who writes a blog regularly on EDN. He is also a Future Business Leaders Of America state level champion and a DECA president. He is on the advisory board as a Vice President for Creativity and Innovation at SKAK INC, a chip design and verification company founded by his father Sunil Kakkar. Panelist - Manan Mehta, Reliability Engineer, Solectria Renewables Panelist - Lloyd Walker, Aviation Engineering Student, San Jose State University Exceptional student leader with design and business/marketing expernce and a bright future, resume includes Engineering Ambassador, Start-Up Nation Scholar, Global Technology, Initiative Scholar
Panelist - Amanda Pratt, MSEE Student, UC Berkeley 2012 graduate of Olin and after two year as an Edison at GE Healthcare, she returned to complete her MSEE at U.C. Berkeley. She has also been accepted into the 2014 class entering the Harvard Business School Panelist - Andrew Milluzzi, PhD Student, University of Florida
Andy is a PhD Student at the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) at the Univeristy of Florida. He is a 2012 graduate from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, earning a BS in Computer Engineering and a BS in Software Engineering. He was also recognized as the John T. Royce Outstanding Graduate for the class of 2012 at Rose-Hulman. Andy has worked at Hyland Software, National Instruments, and Microsoft. He is also a LEGO MINDSTORMS Community Partner and long-time volunteer with FIRST, working to inspire the next generation of engineers.
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| 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM |
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| 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM |
Got Questions? Like, How many return vias should I use? Does it matter if the reference plane is 3.3v or Vss? Can I use a pigtail in my connector for USB 3.0? Why do we use 50 Ohms in our designs? W… More ▶
Moderator - Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelist, Bogatin Enterprises Eric Bogatin, signal integrity evangelist with Bogatin Enterprises, teaches advanced signal integrity classes worldwide. He received his bachelor of science degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1980. He has held senior engineering and management positions at Bell Labs, Raychem, Sun Microsystems, Ansoft, and Interconnect Devices Panelist - Jeff Loyer, Signal Integrity Lead, Intel
Jeff Loyer is a Signal Integrity Lead with Intel Corporation and has led much of their efforts in finding solutions for PCB issues including the Fiberweave Effect, copper roughness, and measuring and controlling insertion loss. He has spoken on these topics at past DesignCon sessions.
Panelist - Lee Hill, Founding Partner, SILENT Solutions LLC Lee Hill is founding partner of SILENT, an independent design firm established in 1992 that specializes in EMC and RF design, troubleshooting, and training services to commercial and industrial manufacturers with global distribution in the computer, consumer, network and telecommunications, industrial process control, automotive, medical and scientific instruments, and military and aerospace industries. Previously, Hill was principal EMC and systems engineer at Digital Equipment Corp.'s Workstation Systems Engineering Group. He received his master of science degree in electrical engineering and electromagnetics with highest honors from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a returning instructor with the IEEE EMC Society's annual Global University program and is the named inventor of three U.S. patents for EMI control in electronic systems. He provides expert witness services for patent litigation. Panelist - Steve Weir, CTO, IPBlox
Steve is an independent consultant with over 20 years industry experience and a broad range of expertise. Steve holds numerous patents, has authored more than a dozen papers on power integrity, and contributes regularly to the SI-List signal integrity reflector.
Panelist - Jim Nadolny, Sr. SI&EMI Engineer, Samtec Panelist - Don DeGroot, President, CCN Labs Don DeGroot has more than 20 years' experience in high-frequency electrical measurements and engineering through his work in industry, government, and academia. Before launching CCN's measurement services in 2005, DeGroot directed measurement science projects at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993-2005); served as professor adjoint of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado (1999-2005); and spent a visiting year (2002-03) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he developed a new statistical approach to network analyzer calibrations with members of ELEC. Concurrent with his CCN work, he lectures at Andrews University on instrumentation and RF. DeGroot has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical publications and presentations.
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| 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM |
Scattering parameters. SPICE models. IBIS-AMI. Coupled transmission lines. Encrypted netlists. PRBS sources… The list of component models needed to give good eye opening estimates for high-giga… More ▶
Panelist - Helene Thibieroz, Staff Technical Marketing Manager, Synopsys
Helene Thibieroz is a staff technical marketing manager for circuit simulation products at Synopsys Inc.. Thibieroz previously was a staff application engineer at Cadence Design Systems for 10 years and a staff characterization engineer at Motorola for five years.
Panelist - Scott Wedge, Senior Staff Engineer, Synopsys
Scott Wedge is a Senior Staff R&D Engineer with Synopsys. He held prior technical and management positions with Tanner Research, Hewlett-Packard, EEsof, and Hughes Aircraft Company. After ten years as an analog/RF circuit designer, Scott transitioned to the EDA industry where he has since been creating better design techniques and software solutions for AMS, signal integrity, and high-speed integrated circuits.
Panelist - Hany Elhak, Product Marketing Manager for SPICE Simulation, Synopsys
Hany Elhak has over 10 years of EDA experience spanning both technical and marketing responsibilities. Prior to EDA, Hany worked as an RF designer, designing RF integrated circuits for cellular and wireless networking standards. He wrote six IEEE papers on RFIC design. Hany has a BSEE and an MSEE from Ain Shams University, Cairo and an MBA with honors from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Panelist - Harald von Sosen, Principal Engineer, Synopsys
Harald von Sosen is a Principal Engineer working in circuit simulation at Synopsys, where has focused primarily on enhancing HSPICE technology for multithreaded transient simulation, RF simulation, and signal integrity analysis. Harald previously lead circuit simulation development at Tanner Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
Panelist - Szekit Chan, Staff Corporate Application Engineer, Synopsys
Szekit Chan is a Staff Corporate Application Engineer at Synopsys supporting HSPICE. He has been with Synopsys for more than 4 years. In his previous work, he has worked on analog and digital circuits design for more than 8 years.
He received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University
and his Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley.
Panelist - Ted Mido, Senior Staff R&D Engineer, Synopsys Inc
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| 2:50 PM – 3:30 PM |
The Chief Technology Officers behind each of the the major test companies will give their take on the current state of test.… More ▶
Moderator - Patrick Mannion, Director of Content, UBM Tech, Electronics Speaker - David Blaza, Vice President, UBM Tech, Electronics
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| 3:35 PM – 4:25 PM |
Home Entertainment Teardown: Sonos Play3 Wired/Wireless Digital Music System Who needs that old stereo system when you have a Sonos system? Instead of placing CDs in a player, you can store all your… More ▶
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