Some good news amid all the gloom and doom.

From Spectrum's August issue:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug08/6481

Excerpt:

"...Engineers with analog, RF, and ­wireless skills, as well as those with ­postgraduate training, are ­becoming harder and harder to find. “If you’re a 20- to 30-year-old ­ana...

Added by Carlos Gamero on 2008-11-25 13:53:59

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/rndcalc The IEEE Spectrum R&D 100 Graph-o-Matic gives you access to seven years’ worth of R&D spending data as provided to us by Standard & Poors. Use this tool to compare R&D expenditures, sales, and number of employees among companies, industries, and countries where these companies are based....

Added by John Wetherell on 2008-11-13 13:27:17

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Read more at CircuitDesign.info.

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Analog design does not scale the way digital design does. Namely, as process shrinks, one does not immediately benefit by having reduced power consumption for the same performanc...

Added by Poojan Wagh on 2008-11-12 17:46:37

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Let’s say that you’ve designed the circuit with a supply voltage (V_DD) of 2.4 V. It’s performing very well. You meet exactly the specified linearity and noise requirements, and are within the desired current limits. The power d...

Added by Poojan Wagh on 2008-11-11 22:31:11

From HotChips.org Intel's POV, short and sweet and surprises no one. http://www.hotchips.org/archives/hc19/2_Mon/HC19.Panel/HC19.panel.02.pdf...

Added by Carlos Gamero on 2008-11-09 14:27:24