Educational Obsolescence

Optimal obsolescence

Product Obsolete / Under Obsolescence

This application note describes a high-speed, reconfigurable, full-precision Transposed Form FIR filter design implemented in the VirtexTM and Virtex-II series and SpartanTM-II family of FPGAs. The VHDL reference design provided with this application note is easily modified to change filter parameters including coefficients and the number of taps. By illustrating a design methodology for digita...

Computers, Obsolescence, and Productivity

What effect have computers had on U.S. productivity growth? This paper shows that increased productivity in the computer-producing sector and the effect of investment in computers on the productivity of those who use them together account for the recent acceleration in U.S. labor productivity. In calculating the computer-usage effect, standard NIPA measures of the computer capital stock are ina...

Competitive planned obsolescence

The incentives that durability offers to a monopolist to price discriminate over time and the related difficulties that secondhand markets create in these situations have been well recognized in the economics literature. The conventional problem for the monopolist is that, having sold a durable good, there is an incentive to reduce price later to bring into the market those consumers who would ...

Obsolescence in subject description

Introduction Librarians collect and bibliographers list documents in whatever media and genres (books, journals, data sets, movies, etc.) are expected to be most useful for the communities and the purposes to be served. Once collected, documents need to be made accessible in an organized way. In part this is a matter of scale. A collection of one or very few documents can simply be placed in a ...