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Copenhagen: Serious FPGA development starts here – Oct 3, 2017

We have Espen back in Copenhagen with the best ever FPGA verification course. Complete with best practice for both development and verification this course is a must if you are serious about FPGA development. Please use promo code VCPH17Q3-45 for €100 discount. More participants from the same company can get an even better discount. Read more about the course – or how to sign up. We run the…

Last call: Signal Integrity w/ Hands-On in August

Doulos is organizing another 3-day signal integrity course on Aug 1-3, 2017 in Ringwood just outside London. Now is the time if you want to join in – the gate closes Jul 15, so get in touch with Doulos before that date. A great time of the year to spend an extra day or two in London if you don’t come there too often. Looking forward to see you!

SI Course in Munich Feb 20-22

The 3-day Signal Integrity with Hands On course on Feb 20-22 in Munich is confirmed and will run for sure. Get signed up asap :) The course is organized by Doulos – so they are the contact point for signups. See you at Hochbräuhaus :)

Best read about ground in 2017 (so far)

We all use “ground”… but what is it? Apparently our good friend Lee Ritchey spent his Christmas writing an article about just ground. This is no doubt the best article I have seen on the subject in all of 2017 :) Highly recommended. And it has already created quite a number of comments on SI-LIST, where SI is discussed on a daily basis. Definitely a subject of great importance. Happy new year to…

Call for Projects, Call for Equipment & an important recommendation on hiring EE's from DTU

This summer we passed 30 new signal integrity students at the 3 week summer course at Danish Technical University (DTU). This is more than twice as many as the previous years. Why? Well, the course is now on the official list of recommended courses of EE’s. I would add another recommendation: Have a real good reason if you want to hire any new EE from DTU that did not pass this course for doing…

SI Week 2016 in Copenhagen was a Success

Last week was dedicated to signal integrity in Copenhagen: SI Week 2016. We had some very good questions and discussions this year during the 3 courses on Signal Integrity, Simulation and Stackup Design. Lee Ritchey was in good shape and kept sharing knowledge and experience all of Mon/Tue/Wed and Friday. Thursday was a full day of simulation run by Rolf Ostergaard showing how simple simulations…

SI Week is ON for sure, and so is Ringwood - so sign up now...

On rare occasions we have to cancel an announced course due to lack of participants. This is the case with the scheduled Munich course in Signal Integrity with Hands-On Simulation next week. Sad, but not all bad. We have the exact same course running in Ringwood outside London the following week on Apr 25-27. Go there instead and we will all have more fun. And – this is the best part – we have…

31445 Signal Integrity in High-Speed Electronics Jun 14 <- The Danish Technical University does it again. #DTU

Yes – we are at it again. The Danish Technical University is running the DTU signal integrity course for the third time this summer. An intense 3-week course combining practical lab work, simulation and theory. I provide a small bit of the training along with the staff at the university. Always a great experience, so I am looking forward to this. But it doesn’t stop there. We want more students…

SI Course in Ringwood confirmed - guaranteed to run April 25-27.

Just a quick note to let you all know that I will be coming to Ringwood April 25-27, 2016 to give the Signal Integrity with Hands-On Simulation course. We organize this course with Doulos, so you will be sent to them for registration and payment. We have this course listed in Munich also for the week before, but honestly I think it would be much easier if you all just go to Ringwood :) It’s just…

Accelerating FPGA VHDL Verification, Stockholm, April 20-21

Serious about FPGA design? Don’t forget verification! Our friends from Bitvis are giving another course – this time in Stockholm. We are not making any money on this, but you should know about it for two reasons: We know it’s a damn good course If you have big FPGA’s in your design, you should go to our SI Week as well :) This course aims to significantly reduce the verification time while at the…

Importance of Glass Weave & 5% "semi-early-bird" discount for SI Week in Copenhagen

When designing 10+ Gbps systems, you may or may not be aware of how important the glass weaves are. You definitely should be. And getting it right is not easy. No real specifications to go by. No consistent information from the vendors and fabricators. Lots of information pointing in different directions. There really is no other way than actually understanding the stuff. But that is not enough.…

Free Video from Eric Bogatin on S-Parameters (from DesignCon 2016)

You may have noticed some extra signal-integrity related social media activity during the last month due to DesignCon 2016 (on Conferize) in Santa Clara, Ca. I was unable to go this year, but right now you can get one of the talks on video for free: Eric Bogatin talks about S-Parameters. This link is only good for so long, unless you are a member of the SI club Eric runs. Those of you, who…

Lee Ritchey SI Courses Updated - Please review the new descriptions. Lots of new stuff to learn in May.

We just updated all the descriptions of the Lee Ritchey courses in the Copenhagen SI Week coming up in May. Now you actually get the best content of 3 different courses merged into the two courses. All very important stuff if you are serious about designing boards for modern (digital) electronics. A good chunk of the previously separate “Very High Speed” course on managing high speed differential…

Copenhagen SI Week 2016 - Time to Sign Up!

We are proud to host the full SI Week 2016 in Copenhagen for the first time. A full week of signal integrity training at the best level possible. A huge success in Stockholm for the last 3 years. Lee Ritchey is coming from California to do a new and revised version of the fundamental and essential signal integrity course all hardware engineers should go trough at least once. This time around the…

$3 multi-core ARM with 8MB RAM and 4MB EEPROM?

At qty 1, you can buy a Mediatek ARM chip with 4 dies for $3 in Shenzhen, China. So how do you compete with that? Watch this quite interesting talk by Bunnie, who explains how the Chinese view on IP makes this possible and how this could (theoretically) be transferred to the west: Very interesting talk. Highly recommended as…

Double-up on SI Training in December

Just a quick note to let you know about two upcoming SI courses in December: Oslo (Asker), NO: December 1-3, 2015 London (Ringwood), UK: December 8-10, 2015 Lots of opportunity to learn how to get ahead – without going overboard. SI is important, but do it right so you don’t spend too much on simulation and too much on fancy board fabrication. The Oslo course is organized with our friends at…