What's the single, most constant and reliable aspect of electronic hardware engineering that we all expect, dream about, wish for and depend on? Change, of course! Change manifests itself in a multitude of ways, whether it's having to respond to ever-increasing design complexities and challenges, higher system performance, smaller and faster devices, the need to lower product costs, a shrinking time-to-market, addressing advances in manufacturing technologies and industry trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT). While these are all factors that affect what we as engineers need to adapt to, there is a missing variable that should be considered and that's how we change our behavior to remain as innovative and productive as ever. I've followed with interest, over the past couple of years or so, the trend in the design community of the resurgence of the "tall, thin engineer." While this is not a new concept, particularly in the field of chip design, where a seasoned, respected and knowledgeable person assumes responsibility for many (if not all) aspects of the design flow, the characteristic requirements of that person have expanded into the more mainstream of FPGA/PCB hardware design.
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