If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively,then the design strategy is flawed.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

There is still a great deal of optimization of the design that needs to be done. Now, with the help of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, we will have equipment to make high quality titanium coatings that are thicker. If we get about 3 percent conversion with 360 nanometers, what we could get with 4 microns is an exciting question we soon hope to answer.

We selected Cadence for our custom, analog and mixed-signal needs because its advanced design methodology offers both speed and silicon accuracy for our design teams. We also chose the Incisive Palladium series because it delivers the fastest, most efficient way to verify large, complex chips. The Cadence technologies enabled us to significantly decrease our design time and drastically improve our time-to-market goals.

It's a tremendous design challenge just to meet the needs of our clients and make effective use of public funds. But we still try to do something more, look for just one or two places in each project where we can make something sparkle. Sometimes it doesn't even have to cost money -- it can be more natural light or the interplay of different materials.