Hi, Which are the most hot and happening DSP application areas? Which area's should todays DSP designers concentrate so that he makes lots of money and is satisfied/happy too. any visionaries around here? What is the future of digital communication and wireless? Is it saturated? or there are lot of things to do. How about image/video processing? Is there some steam left? rgds bharat pathak Arithos Designs www.Arithos.com
hot and happening DSP application area's?
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Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
bharat pathak wrote:> Which area's should todays DSP designers > concentrate so that he makes lots of moneyROFL!! I would say professional sports, reality TV, and brokering military contracts.> and is satisfied/happy too.You want money AND happiness? Money can't buy happiness. (But I'd rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.) I thought that I'd find money and happiness by going into business for myself. I found neither. Call me naive. Greg
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
>bharat pathak wrote: > >> Which area's should todays DSP designers >> concentrate so that he makes lots of money > >ROFL!!What is ROFL!! (please explain)>I would say professional sports, reality TV, and brokering military >contracts. > >> and is satisfied/happy too.>You want money AND happiness? Money can't buy happiness. (But I'd >rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.)Money can't buy happiness seems to be tagline for some credit card company: Money can't buy happiness, for everything else there is MasterCard.>I thought that I'd find money and happiness by going into business for >myself. I found neither. Call me naive.I think we need to carefully look into the definition of business. what exactly is "business" how is your "own business" different then doing business for others (salaried employee). Do salaried employees add to lot of deficiencies in the system? Then too how do big companies survive. Working as a salaried employee to the company brings money but no sense of satisfaction and happiness. Working for yourself brings in lot of satisfaction and happiness but money is not gauranteed. Maybe in the long run it will come eventually. Till then hang on. Even I am new to the business world. Trying to understand this dilemma. Just now finished reading the book "good to great" by jim collins. Regards Bharat Pathak Arithos Designs www.Arithos.com
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
bharat pathak wrote:> Hi, > > Which are the most hot and happening DSP application > areas? Which area's should todays DSP designers > concentrate so that he makes lots of money and is > satisfied/happy too. any visionaries around here?If you can come up with the algorithm which will be able to sort out the immensely stupid questions from the newsgroups, that could be the one.> What is the future of digital communication and wireless? > Is it saturated? or there are lot of things to do.Yes there is a lot of things to do, so stop talking nonsense and return to your arthritic designs.> How about image/video processing? Is there some steam left? > > rgds > bharat pathak > > Arithos Designs > www.Arithos.com > >VLV
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
>>bharat pathak wrote: >> > I think we need to carefully look into the definition of business. > what exactly is "business" how is your "own business" different > then doing business for others (salaried employee). > > Do salaried employees add to lot of deficiencies in the system? > Then too how do big companies survive. > > Working as a salaried employee to the company brings money but > no sense of satisfaction and happiness. Working for yourself > brings in lot of satisfaction and happiness but money is not > gauranteed. Maybe in the long run it will come eventually. Till > then hang on. > > Even I am new to the business world. Trying to understand this > dilemma. Just now finished reading the book "good to great" > by jim collins.As a serial entrepreneur (founded 4 corporations, 3 still operating), I can certainly relate to some of Bharat's statements. The main question that all businesses have to be able to answer is "How do I had value?". If you can't answer this question, you don't have a business. To many people go into business without think this part thru. Good to Great is an excellent book. One of the most important lessons is the flywheel. It takes a lot of energy to make a flywheel spin, but it also tends to keep spinning once you get it going. Having patience (and sufficient resources) is often a difficult lesson to endure. It's easy to second guess whether an approach or product is viable (and it may not be) before it reaches its potential. I also like the "get the right people on your bus (and remove the wrong ones)" Good luck Al Clark Danville Signal Processing, Inc (Year 10)> > Regards > Bharat Pathak > > Arithos Designs > www.Arithos.com > > > > > >
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
On Apr 18, 1:52�am, "bharat pathak" <bha...@arithos.com> wrote:> Hi, > > � Which are the most hot and happening DSP application > � areas? Which area's should todays DSP designers > � concentrate so that he makes lots of money and is > � satisfied/happy too. any visionaries around here? > > � What is the future of digital communication and wireless? > � Is it saturated? or there are lot of things to do. > > � How about image/video processing? Is there some steam left? > > rgds > bharat pathak > > Arithos Designswww.Arithos.comBharat, It is not "hot and happening", but if I was younger, I would definitely add FPGAs to what I do. At this point in my career (25+ years of DSP) no one is going to pay me a comparable salary to begin to design FPGAs, so I won't start that undertaking. However, I have found that I can be of help to FPGA designers with the definition of the numerical processing in ways that they do not have the DSP experience to do, and helping them test the numerical processing. Dirk
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
dbell wrote:> On Apr 18, 1:52 am, "bharat pathak" <bha...@arithos.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Which are the most hot and happening DSP application >> areas? Which area's should todays DSP designers >> concentrate so that he makes lots of money and is >> satisfied/happy too. any visionaries around here? >> >> What is the future of digital communication and wireless? >> Is it saturated? or there are lot of things to do. >> >> How about image/video processing? Is there some steam left? >> >> rgds >> bharat pathak >> >> Arithos Designswww.Arithos.com > > Bharat, > > It is not "hot and happening", but if I was younger, I would > definitely add FPGAs to what I do. At this point in my career (25+ > years of DSP) no one is going to pay me a comparable salary to begin > to design FPGAs, so I won't start that undertaking. However, I have > found that I can be of help to FPGA designers with the definition of > the numerical processing in ways that they do not have the DSP > experience to do, and helping them test the numerical processing. > > DirkNow, if you'd been doing DSP for over 30 years you'd have started by building DSP hardware from the gate level up. Then, implementing DSP in FPGAs would feel like a piece of cake. :-) Steve
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
On Apr 18, 8:59�am, "bharat pathak" <bha...@arithos.com> wrote:> What is ROFL!! (please explain)Rolling on floor laughing.> � � �Money can't buy happiness, for everything else there is > � � �MasterCard.Not bad! Sorry, you caught me at a low moment. Right now the business climate in the US (I cannot speak about any other region) is pretty bleak, except perhaps for military work. DSP for the military seems to most often mean communications, particularly secure communications, as well as things like target acquisition and tracking, signal detection, etc. So if you find that kind of work to be satisfying, then that seems to be the answer to your original question. Greg
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
Thanks to Al, Greg and Dirk for responding positively to the post. Al, I think I have lot more to learn from you. I have lot's of questions spiralling in my mind. But maybe I will ask some other time. Can I get your email id, please? Thanks and Regards Bharat Pathak Arithos Designs www.Arithos.com
Reply by ●April 18, 20082008-04-18
> Which are the most hot and happening DSP application > areas? Which area's should todays DSP designers > concentrate so that he makes lots of money and is > satisfied/happy too. any visionaries around here?This is a bit of a loaded question, but there are answers that sort of fit your request. As others have noted, military/defense contracting is probably the "hottest" area to go into right now. Generally, the work is very challenging though not necessarily the best in terms of pay (which is typically high for DSP engineers in general). Whether or not it makes you "happy" is up to you, however, no matter which field you go into. I do both defense and commercial, comm, radar and whatever other DSP-like applications need to be done (though no particular experience with audio). I just like developing algorithms, though if I had to pick I'd say comm makes me the "happiest."> What is the future of digital communication and wireless? > Is it saturated? or there are lot of things to do.Every new generation of communication technology brings statements from "experts" that the field has reached its limit. Viterbi decoders brought us near the Shannon limit when DS-CDMA systems came out, and we were all told "it's over, there's no need to go any further." Now we have the 4G systems coming out with long-term evolution (LTE) that will be using SC-FDMA and OFDMA (not too different than 802.11a) and cramming much more into the same spectrum. There's a lot to do, most definitely.> How about image/video processing? Is there some steam left?Not my area, so I cannot comment. As with any other technology, I'm sure there will always be steam to be found in some corner of the application. Mark
