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a resource for engineers, inventors and anyone involved in the design of electronics and related technology-based products or devices. |
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the designer's web-based assistant, providing technical background, new design ideas, and known working designs from which to draw to develop innovative and reliable designs. |
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a place to get ready-made circuit designs or help when stuck on a design problem. |
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a place to occasionally test your current design knowledge. |
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indexed by technology into major categories, for quickly locating desired information. |
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a place to find out about some other interesting technologies. |
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a place to find CD-books to improve your understanding of design. |
The Design Center offers a continually updated and expanding stream of design techniques, working designs, advice from leading designers, a place to ask questions when you're stuck on a problem, and a resource for clever ideas for your project. Its products and services extend your design capabilities.
You work in a large electronics company, and are surrounded by other engineers who are working on design projects. You have your E.E. degree and are motivated, but have the same access to skill improvement as your colleagues. You want to excel, pull away from the pack, and demonstrate extraordinary design abilities. How do you learn the fine points of being a good designer?
The Design Center is not mainly more textbook information, but supplies the specific know-how that is the stuff of hot-shot designers. Your boss will wonder how you come up with such good design ideas.
You are an engineering manager in a small company, struggling to compete for a larger segment of the market. You have been realizing that an ever-shorter design cycle is not the key to success, and you have been looking for a way to enhance your design team - to engender their creativity to produce better products instead of merely "sooner" products. Your company cannot afford a training program, and local schools offer good courses in basic principles but not specifically about design.
The Design Center is a way of plugging each of your designers into directly applicable information, prototype hardware, and design packages that they can apply to their current project. It offers instruction about important but little-known aspects of electronic design that are not found in textbooks or courses. The Design Center focus is specifically on the needs of working designers.
You are talented and creative but are stuck in a dead-end job. You need a way of escape, but you are not gaining the needed skills or experience to do so where you are.
The Design Center may be your way to a better career. By studying its material, you prepare yourself to score high on interviews for design positions. By participating in one of its ongoing projects, you gain the actual design experience you need to demonstrate to potential employers what you can do. You could go back to school, but the Design Center gives you the specific knowledge you require to become upwardly mobile on the technology scene.
You work in an industry other than electronics, but could benefit from specifics that enable you to work with electronics. You know your field but are weak in electronics - yet you or others in your group need a resource for practical electronics know-how and a place from which to occasionally get working designs or design help.
The Design Center has a growing base of specified circuit designs in its offering of designware. The Design Forum is a place to expand your contacts in the industry and find those who have similar issues. Through the Design Forum, questions can be asked. Extensive Design Center assistance is also available at a reasonable consultation rate.
You are a techno-geek looking for a good time. The Design Center gives you access not only to electronics design information, but other way-cool technology such as rocketry and robotics. And then there are the diversions ...
