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Test execs, teardowns highlight DesignCon 2012
Nicolas Mokhoff
1/11/2012 11:38 AM EST
DesignCon 2012, to be held in Santa Clara, Calif., January 30 through February 2, will present a panel entitled “Delivering on Time-to-Answer: Meeting Designers Needs in Test and Measurement.”
The test and measurement panel, moderated by Patrick Mannion, director of content at UBM Electronics, will showcase executives from Agilent, Tektronix and LeCroy discussing the nature of test, the interactions and issues designers face, how test technology is evolving to meet designers' needs and what to anticipate next. It will be held on Wednesday, February 1 from 3:45 to 5:00 p.m.
“Designers face ever-shorter time-to-market windows and consistently look to their test equipment for faster ‘time to answer’,” said Mannion. “Yet this requirement clearly flies in the face of the increasing complexity required in these systems. This panel pulls together the best minds in the industry to explore how these conflicting trends can be resolved...”
Panel speakers include Greg Peters, VP and general manager of Agilent’s Component Test Division (CTD), David Graef, VP and chief technology officer of LeCroy Corp.; and Kevin Ilcisin, chief technology officer of Tektronix Corp.
DesignCon 2012 addresses the chip, system and package challenges of high-speed design faced by both board designers and chip design engineers.
“Silicon Valley is the center of the social media world and it’s important for the leaders in that and all related industries to realize that hardware is the first step in making those connections possible,” said David Blaza, vice president, UBM Electronics, the organizer of the Design 2012 event.
Under the hoods
Also on the agenda is the “Tablet Smackdown” live event on Tuesday, January 31 at 2 p.m. featuring teardown specialists from iFixit taking apart the Amazon Fire and Nook Color tablets in front of participants to analyze their insides. The session will also focus on the usability issues that have plagued both Android tablets.
A second teardown session “Android Tablet and Connectivity Showdown” on Wednesday, February 1 at 4 p.m will comprise a comparative analysis of two modestly priced tablet devices, as well as a high-end Wi-Fi router to which they have been connected, to allow an exploration of the product and design choices that make them possible.
The teardowns will include the Vizio VTAB1008 and the Viewsonic gTablet, as well as the Cisco Linksys E3200 dual-band N router. An interactive panel discussion on general tablet design and wireless connectivity in particular will follow.
Next: Keynoters
The test and measurement panel, moderated by Patrick Mannion, director of content at UBM Electronics, will showcase executives from Agilent, Tektronix and LeCroy discussing the nature of test, the interactions and issues designers face, how test technology is evolving to meet designers' needs and what to anticipate next. It will be held on Wednesday, February 1 from 3:45 to 5:00 p.m.
“Designers face ever-shorter time-to-market windows and consistently look to their test equipment for faster ‘time to answer’,” said Mannion. “Yet this requirement clearly flies in the face of the increasing complexity required in these systems. This panel pulls together the best minds in the industry to explore how these conflicting trends can be resolved...”
Panel speakers include Greg Peters, VP and general manager of Agilent’s Component Test Division (CTD), David Graef, VP and chief technology officer of LeCroy Corp.; and Kevin Ilcisin, chief technology officer of Tektronix Corp.
DesignCon 2012 addresses the chip, system and package challenges of high-speed design faced by both board designers and chip design engineers.
“Silicon Valley is the center of the social media world and it’s important for the leaders in that and all related industries to realize that hardware is the first step in making those connections possible,” said David Blaza, vice president, UBM Electronics, the organizer of the Design 2012 event.
Under the hoods
Also on the agenda is the “Tablet Smackdown” live event on Tuesday, January 31 at 2 p.m. featuring teardown specialists from iFixit taking apart the Amazon Fire and Nook Color tablets in front of participants to analyze their insides. The session will also focus on the usability issues that have plagued both Android tablets.
A second teardown session “Android Tablet and Connectivity Showdown” on Wednesday, February 1 at 4 p.m will comprise a comparative analysis of two modestly priced tablet devices, as well as a high-end Wi-Fi router to which they have been connected, to allow an exploration of the product and design choices that make them possible.
The teardowns will include the Vizio VTAB1008 and the Viewsonic gTablet, as well as the Cisco Linksys E3200 dual-band N router. An interactive panel discussion on general tablet design and wireless connectivity in particular will follow.
Next: Keynoters
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