We have a mixed bag of partners. Several of our integrators are small. Size doesn't matter.

With some other technologies in the high-tech world, you can actually very accurately simulate it on the computer and know what you're building before you build it. In RF, you can't do that. You're not relying on the software to do the work for you. It's really the engineer's brainpower.

The demonstration of SEQ5400 at 3GSM will illustrate the advantage of extending polar architecture across all modes, which will greatly benefit wireless handset manufacturers in their ability to lower the cost, shrink the size and increase the battery life of multi-mode handsets.

Very big established companies create a feeding ground for startups. Very few cities in the world have a critical mass of RF designers. San Diego is one of them.

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.