Venerable reporter David Lammers looks at personalities in the semiconductor industry from his venue in Austin, the heart of Texas.

Communications editor Loring Wirbel conjures a pertinent analysis of the issues in the fast-changing communications industry.

Will Strauss of Forward Concepts is your guide through the cascade of developments in digital signal processing (DSP) technology.

Depend on Jeff Bier of Berkeley Design Technology Inc. to stay atop issues of DSP system design and streaming-media capabilities.

Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst of The Linley Group, shares his expertise on PC architectures, and on processor developments for the information-appliance and Internet era.

Michael Slater, former executive editor of Microprocessor Report, hones in on the architecture of the latest chips and their builders in this now-discontinued column.

Wise deductions are the pearls that former executive editor (now ISD publisher) Ron Wilson finds in the semiconductor industry's oysters.

Our man in London, Peter Clarke, surveys all of Europe to find a proper angle on the continent's changing technology scene.

Get an insider's view of Europe's electronics industry from analyst Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons.

George Leopold, Washington bureau chief, keeps his eyes and ears on the government and notes how politics can influence, and be influenced by, industry.

David Lammers, formerly based in Tokyo, looks at personalities in the Japanese semiconductor in this discontinued feature.

Rick Doherty of The Envisioneering Group spills a stream of consciousness and more in his column about the converging paths of digital video and audio technologies.

Dataquest Inc. analyst Jeremey Donovan keeps a close business eye on the exploding communications IC market.

Let Craig Mathias, a principal with Farpoint Group (Ashland, Mass.), serve as your guide to the wireless world.

Alexander Wolfe, managing editor of microprocessors and embedded systems, offers his insight on the Wintel juggernaut and the embedded world.

A general compendium of nuggets on intellectual property and resuable designs, compiled each week by Michael Santarini.

Ronald Collett, president of consultancy Collett International, takes a look at investors' high expectations and the disappointing productivity of EDA design tools.

John Cooley, who runs the e-mail Synopsys users group (ESNUG), fills the bill as an industry gadfly, and comments on ESNUG's many concerns, and then some.

Design tools are cumbersome, hard to use, and lack real support — that's a standard mantra of Richard Goering, EDA industry editor, who constantly calls for and welcomes input from tool users.

Editor emeritus George Rostky can't recall the last time Charlie, his column everyman, got a break in the office, but he sure can drive home the point of why he rarely does.

With flair and panache, Frank Burge gives himself some leeway and takes the industry to task on issues where he sees it's off the mark.

Interesting and informative exchanges from our Mentoring Board are highlighted here each month.

Part of the print edition's TimesPeople section, this column is in the capable hands of the section's guardian, Terry Costlow, who continues to find many career issues to address.

Consultant Peter Shikli, founder of BusinessWare, a company that specializes in information delivery via the Web, sets forth some very practical ideas to use to help your company make the most of its presence on the Internet.

It may not square with the pundits, but the weekly editorial, penned by editor-in-chief Rick Merritt, comes across every time as a bellwether for the industry.

Our editorial equivalent of the soap box, Open Line lets our staff of writers and editors vent their frustration, express their amazement and enlighten our readers with their prose.

Industry executives express what's on their minds, within the barely sufficient confines of our alloted word counts.

Veteran display watcher David Lieberman sheds some light on the display technologies preparing for and making the most of their time on stage, and the advanced applications they enable.

In this monthly column, Gina Roos keeps the engineering community abreast of the latest developments in electronic component distribution.

Analog, mixed-signal and DSP guru Stephan Ohr expounds on the front-end of the system design world for both wired and wireless equipment.

Veteran industry observer Vincent Biancomano shares his thoughts on the players and the technologies in the power electronics business in this monthly column.