Why I Blog

Since I have been asked to start blogging, I've given it some thought.  In my busy schedule do I really want to take on another task that I have to schedule?  Well, after much deliberation, I came to these conclusions of why I should blog. 

I have been in the PLD industry for close to 20 years. That's even old in dog years! All this time I have been in Applications Engineering and I have talked to countless engineers.  So I should be able to pass on all that life experience to make it easy for someone who might be facing a similar situation that I've been through.  If I can save them a few hours to a few weeks worth of struggling to solve a technical problem, that alone would be worthwhile starting my blog. 

Managing a group of Applications Engineers and interfacing with many more Field Applications Engineers, I am constantly answering questions, learning and figuring out technical problems.  My collegues at the office will tell you that my office and phone queue is usually 2 to 3 deep.  If I am not talking to a person, I am probably answering my email.  I hope to make my blog another communication avenue, not only for the external engineers but also for my collegues, my direct reports and the field engineers that I interface with on a day-to-day basis.  This should, of course, not replace any critical communications, but rather enhance information transfer for common information that I am repeating several times.  So I welcome your inputs and comments on my blog to make this communication work for everyone's benefit. Someone once said that being an Applications Engineer is like being nibbled to death by a bunch of ducks.  I hope to reduce the nibbling with this blog.

It's a rare opportunity for an engineer to express our own opinion.  With my blog, I hope I can honestly express what I feel about some of the issues and implementations related to the PLD industry. 

The general topics I will be following are:
1: industry relevent discussion/opinion
2: PLD tricks of the trade
3: Lattice product specific discussion/answers
4: response to the comments/email.

Let the blogging begin, and I will tell you how my expectations match reality after a few months.

Bertrand Leigh, Lattice Applications Engineering

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