DesignCon 2010 Video Contest: Another Day In The Life Of an Agilent EEsof EDA Chiphead

http://signal-integrity.tm.agilent.com - Contest ID: 21380. Every engineer wants an EDA tool that's easy to use. But can things go too far? Were the Luddites right in thinking technological progress is a zero sum game? Who's software is easiest to use? Does Godel's incompleteness theorem prohibit a do-my-job button, at least in principle? The definitive answers to these and other epistemological questions are certainly not contained in this (hopefully) hilarious sequel to my DesignCon 2009 video contest entry (still available on YouTube).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• chiphead
• designcon
• designcon 2010
• luddites
• godel
• applied-wave-research
• microwave-office
• agilent-ads
• ease-of-use

[gr8cherchie]

Okay, that was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while. It's good to see that EDA folks do actually have a sense of humor and aren't afraid to laugh at themselves. I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

[realwoz2]

Thanks, gr8cherchie. Please tell your friends :-) I'll try to dream up something new and funny for DesignCon 2011.

[7olddog]

I think I did something like this when I was training people off shore how to do my job.

[realwoz2]

Economists call it the Law of Comparative Advantage :-)

[Aditipai1227]

Creative, I enjoyed this!

-Suhas

[realwoz2]

Thanks, Suhas! We do our best on our limited budget (0) :-)

[MrMikeWoodward]

I like this video. A`worthy sequel to "will it blend!".

[realwoz2]

How's this Karen: we'll donate the "do my job" IP to a standards body if Synopsys will migrate HSPICE encryption to IEEE P1735. Deal? :-)

[realwoz2]

There's a bit in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books where a mass extinction is traced to geological layers of excessive shoes. Ten thousand years from now I think historians will trace human extinction to a geological layer of excessive NDAs :)

[Kirtk07]

I had trouble signing the release. :)

[realwoz2]

Thanks, Mike, I've always said you have good taste! :-)