Monday, October 16, 2017

SI / PI


PDN. Crosstalk. Parasitics. Latency. Bandwidth. EMI/EMC. RC delay. Resistance, Capacitance, Inductance, Impedance.

Droop, insertion loss, return loss, impedance matching, jitter, rise time, transmission line effects, eye diagram (eye ht ->mv, eye width->ps), leakage, transmission loss

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Conflict Resolution



Turtle : Avoid
Bear: Accommodate
Shark: Compete
Fox: Compromise
Owl: Collaborate

Friday, April 14, 2017

Covey's Time Management Matrix


High Importance, High Urgency: PREVENT

Low Importance, Low Urgency: AVOID

High Importance, Low Urgency: PLAN

Low Importance, High Urgency: MANAGE

Friday, April 7, 2017

Project Management Fundamentals


Needs: RFI/RFP/SOW
Solution/Plan Definition: Charter (Goals, Objectives, Team, Stakeholders, Sponsors, Deliverables, Decisions, Risks, Assumptions) & WBS (defines Scope, Schedule/Time, Budget), Resources (allocation/assignment/leveling/balancing), Duration estimates/Dependencies (FS, SS, FF, SF), AON/Critical Path, Gantt Chart
Execute / Perform: Manage, track (variance to baselines, progress status, corrective action), control (PERT/CPM/EVMS), report, review.
Close-out. Document. Lessons Learned.

Smartphone Components

Antenna + Switch & RFFE, Filter, Duplexer, Amplifier, Transceiver, Baseband, Application Processor [SOC + LPDDR3], Memory [Flash / SSD...