My partner, Mike Deeds, has a new post on our company blog:You can’t escape the fact that it takes money to create a low cost product. It is estimated that the first version of the iPhone had COGS (cost-of-goods-sold) of around ...READ»
I thought it would be interesting to connect a network sniffer in-line with my shiny new iPad, so I could capture and analyze all the network traffic flowing to and from the device.Although I did this with the iPad, the ...READ»
Cardinal Peak recently had an unfortunate “first”: We chose to walk away from a promising engineering engagement because we couldn’t reach agreement with our customer about an indemnification clause.
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The web is filled with
introductions
to Delta Sigma modulation (also sometimes referred to as Sigma Delta
modulation) in the context of Delta Sigma converters. Unfortunately, the
ones I’ve looked at fail to intuitively ...READ»
The web is filled with introductions to Delta Sigma modulation (also sometimes referred to as Sigma Delta modulation) in the context of Delta Sigma converters. Unfortunately, the ones I’ve looked at fail to intuitively motivate how ...READ»
As all good project managers know, there are three dimensions to any engineering effort:
The features of the product: What does the product do and how does it look? (For sake of simplicity, let’s include “quality” as a product ...READ»
My partner, Mike Perkins, has a new blog post up:
The world is moving in the direction of HDTV, but NTSC “standard
def” signals are still common for many reasons and will remain so. One
important reason is that cameras that ...READ»
Seven years into running a services business, we’ve recently
recognized a pattern across several of the projects we’ve done. The
pattern is that the customer wants to outsource the initial development of a product but also wants ...READ»
Cardinal Peak managing partner Mike Perkins, Ph.D., has posted a new
blog on the Noise Floor. Read the post at http://www.cardinalpeak.com/blog/?p=258, or start with his first two entries in this blog series, Power Measurements with ...READ»
Recently my mom bought me a Kodak Zi8 pocket HD video camera for my birthday. Thanks, Mom! You know what an engineer likes! I love photography, and I upload my photos to the Flickr photo sharing site. But I think my ...READ»
I recently flew into Washington Dulles airport, and I was struck anew with the sheer impracticality of the Dulles “mobile lounge.” It’s like something out of Star Wars. I can only imagine the glee of the Chrysler salesman who, ...READ»
Cardinal Peak managing partner Mike Perkins, Ph.D., has posted a new blog exploring Power of a Zero Mean Noise Signal. Read the post at http://www.cardinalpeak.com/blog/?p=183, or start with his first entry in this blog series, Power ...READ»
I just spent the last three days at the IACP show in Denver—the annual conference and expo for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.For anyone who was once a 12-year-old boy, IACP is about as cool as it comes, ...READ»
