Unfortunately we are viewed as a draftsperson just doing 'connect-the-dots'.
tr :( -----Original Message----- From: Samuel C. Cox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:04 PM To: Protel EDA Discussion List Subject: [PEDA] 2006 - Year of the PCB Designer - It's About Time!!! Hear Hear.!!! 2006... All RIGHT !!!! It is about time..! Better late than never ! Think about it, Silicon Valley is known for the invention, design and implementation of the transistor on to silicon Chips. From those chips came the application products that have changed our City, State, Country and World forever. It is an international Mecca for Engineers, all because of a little sand, oil, and metal. We know the truth, It is the un appreciated PCB Designers of this Valley / world that have enabled all those chips to talk to each other via the PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD. Without which there would be NO Silicon VALLEY. PCBs are the glue, the conduit, the link, the substrate medium, to enable all those collective data streams created and managed by the CHIPS, the IC. If it takes software to make hardware hard, then it is the PCB that promotes communication between the Silicon chips. PCB Designers and PCB Design Engineers are the unsung heroes of the information evolution, enabling knowledge to have grown exponentially even if Wisdom and Understanding have not. Beware the ASICs ARE COMING, the ASICs are coming. ASICs are reducing the number of PCBs.. Where it once took several boards and hundreds of chips now it takes put one board and maybe two chips. Question?? Just where would those pesky chips be if it were not for good old fashioned fiberglass and copper PC boards? Ok.. paper and Teflon too.. but hey, you get the point. Think about it.... PCBs are a just VERY VERY VERY Large scale chip designs, in a sense A MACRO CHIP of sorts. Vs. a MICRO CHIP... (inside Joke) Hey you PCB Designers did you know that you are Secretly MACRO CHIP designers? So they next time someone asks what you do for a living, say, "I am a Macro Chip Designer". Management has known this all along.. They just did not want to tell you that for fear that you would get a big head like the chip designers and ask for more money. Whoops.. I let the cat out of the bag..... Meow... Now a days with the speeds the chips are clocking and the demand for clarity in managing those signals, the boards themselves have become tuned components. Yes you PCB Designers are in fact Component Engineers as well. Hmmm How is that for SPINnn... I guess some may say I am not very "PC". HEADLINE : Again the "PCB has saved the day!". What happens when those projects are late? Who do the come to save the day? Not the GHOST BUSTERS but the ever so cantankerous old PCB DESIGNER. That is who!!... "OH My, please help me.. You can cut your PCB Design Time in half , I know you can. Two weeks is just to much time on the books... I am so sorry we just added to much function to the chip and well Time just got away from us, and I know you can do it. You've Got to save us... We HAVE to hit that marketing window or we will ALL BE OUT OF A JOB!!!! PLEASE Please Please save the Day.. . OK, Just give it your best!!! I know You can do it. Because, you always do. OK...?? OH MY. (How many times have we heard these pleadings?) Well again that super hero of technical scrubs, that pseudo Engineer saves the situation again.. You can always rely upon the " Trusty old PCB DESIGNER". He is burning the mid night oil and the mid day oil, and weekend oil to boot, to achieve yet another miracle, the reason? Because he is a good servant, and likes the challenge, and the MONEY! SHOW US the MONEY..... And He always saves the DAY from those Over active blue sky engineers. (What were they smoking?) When will Management learn the basic Truth of this profession. " They will forget how long it takes to design a board if it is 100% Right, but, they will remember every second it took if it is WRONG!" Give us more time, so we can do a better job! Why is it they push for all three. They should know by now that they can only have two out of the three... They can have it Fast, and Good if they are willing to Pay big time. Or they can have it fast and cheap but it won't be good or they can have it Good and Cheap but it won't be fast.. but OH NO... THEY want it Fast Cheap and Good every time.. Oh will they ever Learn? The PCB Designer is the Dream maker. "They make an electro-mechanical reality out of an over active electrical engineer's wet Dream. " It has to be their wet dream because who else would think of trying to put 10 pounds of stuff in a 1 pound bag? Certainly a mechanical engineer would not!!! Remember the good old days... when we had a separate PCB for the CPU, and a separate memory board, and a separate the serial I/O board etc. and they all plugged into a wide "back plane".. Remember when it was an ART, as well as a science??? Ahh !!!.. give me them good old day.. (VME.CPCI, RISC. etc) Now we have it all on a single chip with the CPU, Memory, Math sections, the GPS circuit, the AM-FM radio circuit and an MP3 circuit toboot, not to mention the Internet and phone circuits. SOC it to me. SOC it to me.. Soc it to me.. (Remember Laugh - IN) Ok..... SOC System on a Chip it too me... if you could not interconnect the packages then they Flipped out.! Thus The was born the FLIP CHIP... What a CONCEPT. Necessity in this case was born out of frustration not invention. So now we have SOFC. System on a Flip chip. Or COB.. Sounds like Jalapeno Peppers on a rye crisp Cracker with CORN on the side... Ahhh the good old days... The Designers efforts have always been way under appreciated. Printed Circuit Designers are the real secret Santa's of this industry. We are the Midnight elf's that have made this industry the success that it is. We are The PARA-ENGINEERS, The Engineering Assistants, We have given the gift of adventure and communication and knowledge to the world, and what do we have to show for it????? WHERE ARE OUR ROYALTIES??? Where are our copyright protections? We put our hearts, minds and souls into these designs because each is apart of us and each is As Unique as we are, because of the disciplinary tradeoff that we decide, that we design in or out of these creations. Yes,, we should have been appreciated years ago... Ahhh Yes, HELL yes,,, It is about time we get some appreciation for the contributions we have made... BRING it ON 2006... THE YEAR of the PCB Designer!!!! I will believe it when I see it... Congrats.. to all of you PCBers...out there... and you know who you are.. GOOD JOB!!!.. WELL DONE !!! YOU FINE AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF SILICON.!! When you look back on your lives you can tell your grandchildren you enabled the 21st century with your designs. by Samuel C. 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