Hi,
I was trying to point out: I have a feeling that some part of SI-engineering
still requires understanding of complex scientific mechanisms and can be
done only by the best and brightest. Still many companies religiously
believe that it cannot be. If I am right, then it would cause project and
business failures, but somehow most businesses still thrive. Both the
businesses that utilize a few experts, and those companies who believe no
experts are needed (only a trained guy who knows how to run HFSS or
Hyperlynx) remain competitive on the market. Some times SI engineering is
provided as a service from far-east or local outsourcing companies who also
provide manufacturing and other engineering services, normally as a bundle.
I have met with bad SI teams (their work was useless), and also worked with
a consultant US who did the full service pointing out our problems and
solutions. For a weird reason the market seems to have no natural selection
of the fittest. Or it is coming later? What is making the unfit to survive?
Istvan
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From: Todd Westerhoff
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 8:24 AM
To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: commodity
Istvan,
I'd like to pose a counter-question.
Are automotive mechanics a commodity?
And if so, why is an affordable, affable, available master mechanic such a
rare find?
Todd.
Todd Westerhoff
VP, Semiconductor Relations
Signal Integrity Software Inc. . www.sisoft.com
6 Clock Tower Place . Suite 250 . Maynard, MA 01754
(978) 461-0449 x124 . twesterh@xxxxxxxxxx
"I want to live like that"
-Sidewalk Prophets
-----Original Message-----
From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Istvan Nagy
Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 2:26 AM
To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] commodity
Hi,
Did signal integrity engineering become a commodity?
Or is this trend about to slap someone in the face?
I thought it used to be a professor or scientist job for the best and
brightest, but nowadays all companies keep hiring people for their SI
teams in large quantities. Most job postings are like "fresh graduate with
3yr experience", that's all that's required. The "expert" is not part of
the equation anymore?
Did it become that simple that any fresh graduate can do what 10 years ago
only the smartest people could do?
I got quotes from some service/contractor companies doing SI simulations
for us on their Ansoft tools (for a lot of money), but "what to simulate"
or "how to interpret the results" was either not covered or was seriously
misguided.
The same might have happened to "engineering" some years earlier. Is it
the same, or this time it is different?
Some threads here on si-list in recent years seem (to me) to reflect that
too.
Regards,
Istvan Nagy
(I am not really an SI-engineer, but a HW/product/board designer)
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