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Column: The Shaughnessy Report
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Who's Hiring PCB Designers Today?
Are there any designer jobs open right now? What do hiring managers look for when they hire PCB designers? Staffing executive Derek Doucette with American Contract Group knows first-hand. If you're a designer looking for work, or if you're worried that you might be job-hunting soon, this column is for you.
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Documentation Becoming More Important to Managers
DownStream Technologies exhibited at DesignCon for the first time. Founder Rick Almeida explains why, and he offers insights into how PCB documentation is becoming a greater concern for engineering managers-especially as designers and EEs spend more time doing documentation than designing PCBs.
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Column: The Signal Integrity Evangelist |
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Frequency-Dependent Material Properties
At DesignCon, I presented a paper on causal models for materials. Whenever you go from a frequency domain into the time domain, you have to worry about causality. If you care about high-speed serial links and use FR-4-like materials, you should care about frequency-dependent material properties.
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Featured Article
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Becoming an HDI Implementer
Signal integrity, power integrity, electromagnetic compliance, material choices, trace and space routing thicknesses, and embedded components are a few of the issues that must be considered when teams are developing HDI designs.
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Design News & Additional Information
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Paratek Microwave Selects Agilent ADS
The accuracy, capacity and performance offered by ADS aid Paratek in the design of optimized modules as well as in the creation of models for its customers.
Mentor Graphics Beats Q4 Forecasts
Mentor Graphics posted Q4 revenue of $237.1 million, a slight drop from the same quarter a year ago, but still ahead of the company's forecasts. For this quarter, Mentor expects revenues of approximately $180 million.
Bogatin Enterprises Posts Spring Institute Schedule
Finding a solution to your current and future signal integrity problems may save you weeks of design time and multiple board spins. Learn the right way of designing high-speed products to eliminate signal integrity problems from your next design.
CEDA Offers New Online Training Program
This unique program offers engineers the option to start learning at their own pace from home wherever using industry-preferred Cadence Allegro software and PADS Mentor Graphics software.
Zuken Releases Z-DAC Americas, ZED Europe Dates
The dates and locations for Zuken's 2010 annual conferences, Z-DAC Americas and the Zuken Engineering Days (ZED) in Europe, are now set for October and November. Z-DAC Americas takes place in Atlanta October 12-13, 2010.
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