John, your first problem seems to be one of education of your management. SiSoft's web-site should be useful to you for that. Good luck, Steve. At 12:39 PM 9/5/2006, Hill, John wrote: >Hello everyone, >I have been designing products with embedded microcontrollers in the >automotive industry for many years. Up until now the memory has always >been in the chip. Now I have been asked to design a product with >multiple 400 to 600 MHz processors. The memories for these processors >are external DDR1 and DDR2. As you all know it takes a lot of skill to >be successful at these frequencies. I have done a lot of reading to >learn how to do it. The problem is that my management has not joined me >in learning about this new design world. They are having trouble >understanding why I am spending so much time reading. Then there is the >list of capital equipment that I have requested. It is a lot bigger than >they had expected. My direct supervisor has been very supportive. >However my concern is that much of our management does not know what to >expect. > >We need someone to provide support to our management and to help them >understand SI technology. It would also be helpful if we could find an >expert to join us for a design review. The problem is that since the >management does not know the technology, they do not know if I am >spending my time wisely or not. It is very difficult for them to know if >I am doing a good job or bad job. If you are a consultant or professor >that may be able to help, please e-mail me. > >Best regards, > >John > > >--------------------------------------- >The information in this email and attachments hereto may contain >legally privileged, proprietary or confidential information that is >intended for a particular recipient. If you are not the intended >recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of >this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified >that any disclosure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the >contents of this e-mail information is prohibited and may be >unlawful. When addressed to Takata customers or vendors, any >information contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and >conditions in the governing contract, if applicable. If you have >received this communication in error, please immediately notify us >by return e-mail, permanently delete any electronic copies of this >communication and destroy any paper copies. >--------------------------------------- > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from si-list: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > >or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > >For help: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > >List FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > >List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > >List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages >Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu