Howard Johnson

Signal Consulting, Inc.

Everything Matters

In a today's tightly packed designs, everything interacts. The next chip you add might produce too much crosstalk, block the airflow for other chips, or overload the power-supply. As you squeeze out that last drop of performance by turning up the clock or adding one more feature you risk bringing upon yourself a curse of complexity--a point beyond which every decision you make interacts with every other decision. We have faced this situation before, and can learn from those who preceded us.
 
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
1:15p.m. - Duncan Hall, TBD
Rice University


* Biography:

Rice PhD EE 1982, inventor of Phonemail, author of "High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic", chief technical editor of Fast and Gigabit Ethernet standards, visiting fellow of Oxford University, executive producer of numerous seminars, books, and films, www.sigcon.com.


ECE Affiliates Meeting - Afternoon Session



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