New Year Resolutions for Electronic Designers

Dec 31, 2006 10 Replies

For 2007 I'm going to:


  • Not blow up anymore mosfets
  • Avoid making insignificant design improvements
  • Make better documentation
  • Don't trust spice for everything
  • Make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel
  • Avoid really cool experiments that are not profitable
  • Get some better test equipment
  • Avoid using the most expensive parts for prototypes
  • Stop making EMI noncompliant power supplies
  • Avoid trial and error design
  • Avoid rushing through a design and making crap
  • Backup my computer more often
  • Avoid releasing a product until it's completely tested And
  • Spend more time on electronics and less time with the girlfriend :) .. like that's gonna happen..

I'd like to know what designers plan to change for the new year..



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About 180° from that...

Jim

Spend less time with electronics and more time on the girlfriend?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

"it\'s the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

Spend less time with electronics and more time on the girlfriend?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

-- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" snipped-for-privacy@interlog.com Info for manufacturers:

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----------- Girlfriends might come and go but electronics will be forever. :) (Now that's a geeky line.)

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Agreed!

...Jim Thompson

-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | |

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

How about, spend more time with the girlfriend, using her to experiment with your new electronic toys!

"I\'m never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken" Real Programmers Do things like this. http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

I do my best designs when my pleasure sensors have been thoroughly stimulated ;-)

...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I'm going to follow the French

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martin

Geeky? So, how often do you have the urge to bite the head off a live chicken?

Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida

Congratulations, by 2008 you will officially no longer be an electronics designer!

Dave :)

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