This paper builds on “Timing Numbers In ICX – What do we do with them?” [1]—a paper presented at the 2006 Mentor Graphics User2User conference (and now available for download at the journal’s Web site, www.edatechforum.com). The original paper focused on the need for timing analysis and the theory behind it; this paper takes a [...]

The contributor supplies high-end military communications systems to both the US and Canadian Navies and here describes the development of a new methodology and also a new backplane for a system that is now being retrofitted onto all ships in Canada’s fleet. The project represented a tipping point. In specific terms, the changes were undertaken [...]

The PCB design team on Alcatel Shanghai Bell’s recently introduced A7510 Media Gateway product was given only seven weeks to complete its task against an original estimate of 13 weeks. The article describes how the team added new members and adopted a concurrent design strategy to not merely meet but beat the tightened deadline. Specific [...]