UPDATED - Future Test&Measurement Technologies and the T&M industry. New "Software Defined Instruments" will be discussed. Three DSOs of this type are in development. A 1.2-GHz bandwidth DSO with 1-Meg passive probes, and a 6.5-Ghz version with standard 500/50-Ohm inputs. (Inexpensive 1-GHz passive probes are possible, because the DSOs are PCMCIA-Card size and the long cable of a USB interface substitutes for the probe leads.) mailto: hwinter@msmisp.com Use Print Preview, Setup L/R 1", 1", T/B 0.5", 0.75"
1.) The Collapsing US Economy
and E&E Engineering
2.) DOES THE FIRE
BURN and The Wonder still Exist? -
3.) STAR TREK TRICORDER, a Reference design --------
4.) Size Comparis on of Handheld DSOs on the market. -
6.) SOFTWARE DEFINED INSTRUMENTS –----------------
5.) Leading edge performance, versus PC-Card DSO -----
5.) Students-Voting --- please send a postcard --------------
Test world copes with disruptive change --- EETimes, Stan Runyon
By now, anyone with any kind of stake in the future of technology knows about the challenges of disruptive change. A breakthrough innovation comes along, perhaps initiated by an unknown startup, and all hell breaks loose. Established companies die. Market leaders become market failures. Entire industries are disrupted as new technologies; new ways of distribution, new ideas take over. ------ There are those who believe the test industry is in this state. They think even giants like Agilent Technologies and Tektronix, long time leader in oscilloscopes and signal sources and all sorts of other test equipment have failed to spot or react to disruptive innovations. These observers believe the test industry will go the way of the minicomputer industry - unless managers and top-level executives change the way products and markets are developed. ------ Personally, I find it hard to imagine a world without a Tektronix or Agilent. But then, name one minicomputer company that succeeded in the PC business. ------ No one can deny there are far fewer test houses than when I started covering the industry back in the 1970s, and almost no startups to speak of except in the design-for-test and embedded test. But Tektronix is changing, having shed a bunch of older businesses and bought some new ones, and it continues to dominate in scopes. And changes are afoot at Agilent too. This former arm of Hewlett-Packard has a lot more going for it than just test equipment. ------ According to Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, established industry leaders never introduce, or cope well with, disruptive innovations. Christensen, who with Michael Overdorf wrote "Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change" for the Harvard Business Review (March-April 2000), noted that a company must change its processes and values, not just resources, to meet the challenge. To do so, he said, managers must create new organizational structures, spin out an independent organization or acquire a different organization. Can Tek and Agilent rise to the occasion? I sincerely hope so.
The above papers are about the <why> for this "Disruption" of the industry and about Future Technologies creating great Opportunity for <new> companies to replace the <old>.
7.) EQUIVALENCY of Software and Hardware, a sketch -------------
8.) Instrument-Peripherals for your Workstation in year 2005 --------
9.) Time and Trade Secret of DIS, Intellectual property ----------------
10.) Disruptive Innovations 101, helpless "Great Firms"------------------------
10a) Secrets revealed ------------------------------------------------ after 20 years ---
11.) The Market Backdoor for disruptive-innovations ---------------------
12.) Put an Instrument in your Palm, -------------------------------------------
13.) Cost versus Bandwidth chart for all oscilloscopes on the market ----
14.) Reference designs, Instrument Platform --------------------------------
15.) The "Software Defined" concept", as applied to "Instruments" ------
16.) FORTH as a < Disruptive Technology > causes Industry Rejection-
17.) Funny Pages --- 1, Tek --- 2, Tek --- 3, Agilent--- 4, ATE ------------
18.) International Test & Measurement Conference, V.P. Gelsinger -----
19.) The "Callicebus Monkey club", the T&M industry, a strange society
20.) Advanced Mixed-Signal design for SoC implementation. EET Oct. 02
21.) Radio Free Intel --- a Billion dollar "Software Defined System" R&D
22.) Intel's $Billion Dollar "Software Defined System" Development -----
23.) Discount offer to Engineering Students --- 6-GHz DSO mod 229c –
24.) Starting EE-Logos.org, for the Advancement of EE-students only –
25.) Students-Voting --- please send a postcard -------------------------------
26.) Loss of US Leadership,
EE-Times report ---------------------------------
27.) 百萬美元的智慧財產權送給貴校EECS系-
(Also in English, “A
Grant to Universities” of my designs.)
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