Group for People Involved In the Design and Verification of FPGA's, other Programmable Logic , and CPLD's to Exchange Idea's and Techniques. You should have FPGA / CPLD Design / Verification on your Profile. (The focus is more on FPGA/CPLD in the product as opposed to FPGA's solely as a path to an ASIC) VHDL / Verilog / ABLE / SystemC and other HDL's as well. Vendors included: Xilinx, Altera, Actel, Lattice, Atmel, QuickLogic, Tabula, Silicon Blue, Mentor, Cadence, Synopsys, Aldec, NI, Altium, and Many Others. Networking on LinkedIn can be a way to get technical questions answered. It can also be a way to meet contacts with expertise in other domains of knowledge other than your own. Additionally, many career enhancing contacts, and mentors can potentially found especially if one is at a smaller company that lacks the resources for extensive internal networking. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=56713 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fpgacpldgroup/
FPGA / CPLD Group on LinkedIn -- Networking Group
Started by ●June 28, 2009
Reply by ●June 28, 20092009-06-28
On Jun 28, 5:09=A0pm, cpld-fpga-asic <cpld.fpga.a...@gmail.com> wrote:> Group for People Involved In the Design and Verification of FPGA's, > other Programmable Logic , and CPLD's to Exchange Idea's and > Techniques. You should have FPGA / CPLD Design / Verification on your > Profile. (The focus is more on FPGA/CPLD in the product as opposed to > FPGA's solely as a path to an ASIC) VHDL / Verilog / ABLE / SystemC > and other HDL's as well. Vendors included: Xilinx, Altera, Actel, > Lattice, Atmel, QuickLogic, Tabula, Silicon Blue, Mentor, Cadence, > Synopsys, Aldec, NI, Altium, and Many Others. > > Networking on LinkedIn can be a way to get technical questions > answered. It can also be a way to meet contacts with expertise in > other domains of knowledge other than your own. Additionally, many > career enhancing contacts, and mentors can potentially found > especially if one is at a smaller company that lacks the resources for > extensive internal networking. > > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=3D&gid=3D56713 > > Website:https://sites.google.com/site/fpgacpldgroup/could you describe the last technical FPGA related question that your linkedin networking group solved? unless you are able todo that, i see you repeated postings to c.a.f. as complete spam Antti
Reply by ●June 29, 20092009-06-29
On Jun 28, 10:52=A0am, "Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com" <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:> On Jun 28, 5:09=A0pm, cpld-fpga-asic <cpld.fpga.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Group for People Involved In the Design and Verification of FPGA's, > > other Programmable Logic , and CPLD's to Exchange Idea's and > > Techniques. You should have FPGA / CPLD Design / Verification on your > > Profile. (The focus is more on FPGA/CPLD in the product as opposed to > > FPGA's solely as a path to an ASIC) VHDL / Verilog / ABLE / SystemC > > and other HDL's as well. Vendors included: Xilinx, Altera, Actel, > > Lattice, Atmel, QuickLogic, Tabula, Silicon Blue, Mentor, Cadence, > > Synopsys, Aldec, NI, Altium, and Many Others. > > > Networking on LinkedIn can be a way to get technical questions > > answered. It can also be a way to meet contacts with expertise in > > other domains of knowledge other than your own. Additionally, many > > career enhancing contacts, and mentors can potentially found > > especially if one is at a smaller company that lacks the resources for > > extensive internal networking. > > >http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=3D&gid=3D56713 > > > Website:https://sites.google.com/site/fpgacpldgroup/ > > could you describe the last technical FPGA related question > that your linkedin networking group solved? > > unless you are able todo that, i see you repeated postings > to c.a.f. as complete spam > > AnttiHi, I am one of the moderators at this group and I must be honest about it. It is not a very technically oriented group. I have tried to make some technically oriented posts there with few responses. This did not seem to stimulate much in the way of subsequent new topics either. I have also made an effort to separate the technical content from the recruiting content and gotten feedback that the recruiters are the ones paying the way for LinkedIn and cutting them out would be a mistake. So I have given up on this group as well as other FPGA related groups at LinkedIn. I have not removed myself from membership, but I can't say I recommend them unless you wish to use it for employment or self promotion. Rick
Reply by ●July 2, 20092009-07-02
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:08:16 +0800, rickman wrote (in article <68320efd-477b-4818-95dd-d4639d7e2cd1@n19g2000vba.googlegroups.com>):> On Jun 28, 10:52=A0am, "Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com" > <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Jun 28, 5:09=A0pm, cpld-fpga-asic <cpld.fpga.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Group for People Involved In the Design and Verification of FPGA's, >>> other Programmable Logic , and CPLD's to Exchange Idea's and >>> Techniques. You should have FPGA / CPLD Design / Verification on your >>> Profile. (The focus is more on FPGA/CPLD in the product as opposed to >>> FPGA's solely as a path to an ASIC) VHDL / Verilog / ABLE / SystemC >>> and other HDL's as well. Vendors included: Xilinx, Altera, Actel, >>> Lattice, Atmel, QuickLogic, Tabula, Silicon Blue, Mentor, Cadence, >>> Synopsys, Aldec, NI, Altium, and Many Others. >> >>> Networking on LinkedIn can be a way to get technical questions >>> answered. It can also be a way to meet contacts with expertise in >>> other domains of knowledge other than your own. Additionally, many >>> career enhancing contacts, and mentors can potentially found >>> especially if one is at a smaller company that lacks the resources for >>> extensive internal networking. >> >>> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=3D&gid=3D56713 >> >>> Website:https://sites.google.com/site/fpgacpldgroup/ >> >> could you describe the last technical FPGA related question >> that your linkedin networking group solved? >> >> unless you are able todo that, i see you repeated postings >> to c.a.f. as complete spam >> >> Antti > > Hi, I am one of the moderators at this group and I must be honest > about it. It is not a very technically oriented group. I have tried > to make some technically oriented posts there with few responses. > This did not seem to stimulate much in the way of subsequent new > topics either. I have also made an effort to separate the technical > content from the recruiting content and gotten feedback that the > recruiters are the ones paying the way for LinkedIn and cutting them > out would be a mistake. > > So I have given up on this group as well as other FPGA related groups > at LinkedIn. I have not removed myself from membership, but I can't > say I recommend them unless you wish to use it for employment or self > promotion. > > RickI'm completely confused as to how you can have a FPGA group that is not "technically orientated" , it would be like having a flower arranging class without the flowers.
Reply by ●July 3, 20092009-07-03
On Jul 2, 8:23=A0pm, steve <st...@aol.com> wrote:> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:08:16 +0800, rickman wrote > (in article > <68320efd-477b-4818-95dd-d4639d7e2...@n19g2000vba.googlegroups.com>): > > > > > On Jun 28, 10:52=A0am, "Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com" > > <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 28, 5:09=A0pm, cpld-fpga-asic <cpld.fpga.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> Group for People Involved In the Design and Verification of FPGA's, > >>> other Programmable Logic , and CPLD's to Exchange Idea's and > >>> Techniques. You should have FPGA / CPLD Design / Verification on your > >>> Profile. (The focus is more on FPGA/CPLD in the product as opposed to > >>> FPGA's solely as a path to an ASIC) VHDL / Verilog / ABLE / SystemC > >>> and other HDL's as well. Vendors included: Xilinx, Altera, Actel, > >>> Lattice, Atmel, QuickLogic, Tabula, Silicon Blue, Mentor, Cadence, > >>> Synopsys, Aldec, NI, Altium, and Many Others. > > >>> Networking on LinkedIn can be a way to get technical questions > >>> answered. It can also be a way to meet contacts with expertise in > >>> other domains of knowledge other than your own. Additionally, many > >>> career enhancing contacts, and mentors can potentially found > >>> especially if one is at a smaller company that lacks the resources fo=r> >>> extensive internal networking. > > >>>http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=3D&gid=3D56713 > > >>> Website:https://sites.google.com/site/fpgacpldgroup/ > > >> could you describe the last technical FPGA related question > >> that your linkedin networking group solved? > > >> unless you are able todo that, i see you repeated postings > >> to c.a.f. as complete spam > > >> Antti > > > Hi, I am one of the moderators at this group and I must be honest > > about it. =A0It is not a very technically oriented group. =A0I have tri=ed> > to make some technically oriented posts there with few responses. > > This did not seem to stimulate much in the way of subsequent new > > topics either. =A0I have also made an effort to separate the technical > > content from the recruiting content and gotten feedback that the > > recruiters are the ones paying the way for LinkedIn and cutting them > > out would be a mistake. > > > So I have given up on this group as well as other FPGA related groups > > at LinkedIn. =A0I have not removed myself from membership, but I can't > > say I recommend them unless you wish to use it for employment or self > > promotion. > > > Rick > > =A0I'm completely confused as to how you can have a FPGA =A0group that is=not =A0> "technically orientated" , it would be like having a flower arranging cla=ss> without the flowers.There are other aspects to any occupation than just the technical issues. LinkedIn is oriented toward the business issues such as getting a job or filling a job. As much as I would like to see it be more technical, it seems like it is pretty firmly rooted in networking with technical discussions being secondary. Is it really that odd to consider? Rick
Reply by ●July 3, 20092009-07-03
"rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message news:8d00a3a1-3187-4421-aed4-6b1df3c71b97@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... On Jul 2, 8:23 pm, steve <st...@aol.com> wrote:> > There are other aspects to any occupation than just the technical > issues. LinkedIn is oriented toward the business issues such as > getting a job or filling a job. As much as I would like to see it be > more technical, it seems like it is pretty firmly rooted in networking > with technical discussions being secondary. > > Is it really that odd to consider? > > RickA bigger problem is how technical discussions are set up (or at least used to be set up when I last looked) and viewed on LinkedIn. Answering questions is supposed to earn you points to improve your image. The questions remain active for only limited period of time upon expiration of which no one can contribute. Finally, you need to be a premium (read paid) member to be able to send a private message to another member. /Mikhail
Reply by ●July 3, 20092009-07-03
On Jul 3, 1:47=A0pm, "MM" <mb...@yahoo.com> wrote:> "rickman" <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:8d00a3a1-3187-4421-aed4-6b1df3c71b97@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 2, 8:23 pm, steve <st...@aol.com> wrote: > > > > > There are other aspects to any occupation than just the technical > > issues. =A0LinkedIn is oriented toward the business issues such as > > getting a job or filling a job. =A0As much as I would like to see it be > > more technical, it seems like it is pretty firmly rooted in networking > > with technical discussions being secondary. > > > Is it really that odd to consider? > > > Rick > > A bigger problem is how technical discussions are set up (or at least use=d> to be set up when I last looked) and viewed on LinkedIn. Answering questi=ons> is supposed to earn you points to improve your image. The questions remai=n> active for only limited period of time upon expiration of which no one ca=n> contribute. Finally, you need to be a premium (read paid) member to be ab=le> to send a private message to another member. > > /MikhailI have not seen anything about points on LinkedIn. I think the only way to "improve" your image at LinkedIn is what you put in your profile. LinkedIn does not rate anyone that I am aware of. I think you may be remembering a different site than LinkedIn. They don't limit the time to reply to a discussion and I am not a paid member and I can send private messages. If I could find you, I would send you a private message to demonstrate, but there are a lot of Mikhails on LinkedIn. Rick
Reply by ●July 3, 20092009-07-03
"rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7c6c7876-8296-41e1-8ec9-b2a13f6da403@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, "MM" <mb...@yahoo.com> wrote:> >I have not seen anything about points on LinkedIn. I think the only >way to "improve" your image at LinkedIn is what you put in your >profile. LinkedIn does not rate anyone that I am aware of. > >I think you may be remembering a different site than LinkedIn. They >don't limit the time to reply to a discussion and I am not a paid >member and I can send private messages. If I could find you, I would >send you a private message to demonstrate, but there are a lot of >Mikhails on LinkedIn.I should have put points in quote marks. There is no rating, but there is an option to see all the answers by a person. I am not confusing LinkedIn with another site but I might be confusing discussions in its groups with its Answers section though. With regards to the private mail, it seems as they have recently changed their policy. It used to be that you could only send a message to someone in your network, for anyone else the only type of message you could send was an invitation to join your network. /Mikhail
Reply by ●July 3, 20092009-07-03
On Jul 3, 3:46 pm, "MM" <mb...@yahoo.com> wrote:> "rickman" <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:7c6c7876-8296-41e1-8ec9-b2a13f6da403@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, "MM" <mb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > >I have not seen anything about points on LinkedIn. I think the only > >way to "improve" your image at LinkedIn is what you put in your > >profile. LinkedIn does not rate anyone that I am aware of. > > >I think you may be remembering a different site than LinkedIn. They > >don't limit the time to reply to a discussion and I am not a paid > >member and I can send private messages. If I could find you, I would > >send you a private message to demonstrate, but there are a lot of > >Mikhails on LinkedIn. > > I should have put points in quote marks. There is no rating, but there is an > option to see all the answers by a person. I am not confusing LinkedIn with > another site but I might be confusing discussions in its groups with its > Answers section though. With regards to the private mail, it seems as they > have recently changed their policy. It used to be that you could only send a > message to someone in your network, for anyone else the only type of message > you could send was an invitation to join your network. > > /MikhailI believe you are correct about the change. I don't use it that often so I don't recall all the details, but I seem to recall that when I tried to contact someone a while back I had to "invite" them to my network. Fortunately that has changed now. I'm not at all familiar with the Answers section. I guess I just have not explored it a lot. I find the interface to be a bit less than obvious, but then I think that about a lot of web sites like Facebook and Twitter. For example, I can't find a way to reach a human at Twitter to report spam to or to ask to block emails to my domain. I keep getting form emails back about using their support web pages. I guess I will have to resort to the post office. Speaking of Twitter, I got some spam (an invitation to join as one of their "twits") from someone there and I can't find a way to report them. There used to be a law here in Maryland that would allow you to sue a spammer for $500 for each email they knowingly sent to a Maryland state resident. A guy decided to fight back by taking an email address at <marylandstateresident.com> and started suing spammers. He snared a couple of small time spammers selling BS assembly projects that you could assemble and then get paid for. Of course no one ever made them good enough to get through "quality control". Then a spammer fought back and won in court with the ruling that it would be next to impossible for a spammer to "know" he was spamming a Maryland state resident. Otherwise participation by the State Attorney General is required in order to sue a spammer if I understand the current law. Rick
Reply by ●July 5, 20092009-07-05