Actually the first time I ever heard that was from one of my all time design heros, Butch "The Wild West" Broberg. A very unique kinda guy from Oklahoma territory. He told me that to really enjoy this business ya had to be at least a little bit off grid. It seemed appropriate and I've always remembered it. I hear that his son or daughter had gotten into design also. If any of you out there know the clan I'd love to get an update.
p.
Pete Waddell
President
UP Media Group
678-589-8813
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Now we see where Pete got the "Off Grid and Proud Of It" slogan :)))
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George Patrick
Tektronix, Inc.
Central Engineering, Engineering Design Services
P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512
Beaverton, OR 97077-0001
Phone: 503-627-5272 Fax: 503-627-5587
http://www.tektronix.com http://www.pcb-designer.com
It's my opinion, not Tektronix'
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From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
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Subject: [DC] FW: 2006 - Year of the PCB Designer - It's About Time!!!
I just had to pass this along from the Protel forum... Samuel Cox has
captured in words what is difficult to express for most of us... but very
true.
Bill Brooks, CID+
-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel C. Cox Jr. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:04 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. Cox Jr.
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