The Roundtable
The Roundtable - Military Electronics
June 23, 2011 12:14 pm | Articles | CommentsThis month's question is: With the continuous improvement in the reliability of commercial parts, will harsh environment performance remain a major focus in military electronics?
The Roundtable - Standards and Regulations
April 11, 2011 7:19 am | by Edited by Alix Paultre | Articles | CommentsThis month's Roundtable question is “How important do you feel regulation and standards are to the electronics industry? Do you feel they help development, or hinder it?” Our answers come from engineers at Fraunhofer, Microsemi, GreenPeak, and Texas Instruments.
The ECN Roundtable - Mil-Aero Trends
March 21, 2011 5:01 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's Roundtable question was "What technology will most impact the military and aerospace market in the near future?" Our answers this month come from Matt Behr of MathWorks and Joe Moxley of Custom Electronics.
The ECN Roundtable - MilAero and HiRel Applications
February 2, 2011 8:06 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's Roundtable question is “How do you feel solid-state lighting will impact Industrial, Military, and/or hi-rel applications in the coming year?"
ECN Roundtable - Designing with Multicore Devices
December 31, 2010 5:12 am | by Edited by Alix Paultre | Blogs | CommentsThis month's Roundtable question is, "What do you feel is the most challenging aspect of incorporating a multicore processor into a design for the engineer?”
The ECN Roundtable - Power Predictions for 2011
November 24, 2010 5:03 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's ECN Roundtable question is: “What technology or industry design trend do you feel will impact the power industry the most in the coming year?"
The ECN Roundtable - Test and Design
November 2, 2010 10:12 am | by Edited by Alix Paultre | Articles | CommentsThe answers to our November Roundtable question: “What facets of testing are most often overlooked by design professionals?” underscore not only the importance of test in design, but also how many ways test can help the engineer.
The Roundtable - The Recovery
October 4, 2010 9:10 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's question is "How will the jobless recovery impact the way semiconductors are designed, developed, and created?" The question is answered this month by Colin Baldwin of Open-Silicon.
August Roundtable - Why Adopt 'Green' Technology?
July 22, 2010 6:16 am | by Alix Paultre, Editor-in-Chief | Articles | CommentsThe Roundtable question for August is “How much do you feel the current push for “green” tech comes from image and the desire to appear ecologically responsible, and how much does it come from a true pursuit of performance improvement in power systems?”
ECN Roundtable - Aerospace and Aviation
July 13, 2010 5:28 am | Articles | CommentsIn this month's Roundtable, we ask our guests about the impact of military RPV tech on the development of civilian systems.
The ECN Roundtable - Mixed-Signal ICs
May 24, 2010 8:05 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's question, "In what area of development do you feel the most progress in mixed-signal ICs will occur?" was answed by Raymond Lee of MagnaChip, Stephen Kempainen of National Semiconductor, and John Whalen of Fairchild Semiconductor.
The Roundtable - Digital Power and the Marketplace
April 12, 2010 11:51 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's question, “What needs to be done for digital power technology to become more accessible to the industry, especially for smaller companies?”, was ansered by Mark Adams of CUI, Chris Young of Intersil, and Rick Zarr of National Semiconductor.
Coping with the Smart Grid
March 4, 2010 7:39 am | Articles | CommentsThis year at APEC I moderated a rap session on dealing with the Smart Grid. It had a standing-room-only crowd, and demonstrated how much interest exists on both the technical and political issues involved.
The ECN Roundtable - Multicore Adoption
December 21, 2009 11:43 am | Articles | CommentsThis month's question, "What is the biggest challenge facing the adoption of multicore processors by the engineering community for more applications?" was answered by people from Texas Instruments, Freescale, The Mathworks, and National Instruments.
