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Column: Software Bytes by Abby Monaco
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Maintenance: A Team Partner or Black Hole?
If you're on software maintenance, you're really paying for your software vendor to be your team partner, 24/7/365. But if your support call gets lost in a black hole, you're left wondering, "What's the point of paying maintenance anyway?" Let me walk you through maintenance, from a product manager's point of view.
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Overcoming Embedded Capacitance Reluctance
The industry has been reluctant to use embedded capacitance materials due to a lack of understanding of its design benefits. J. Lee Parker of JLP Consultants explains the advantages of buried capacitance, including EMI suppression, decoupling and the chance to move capacitors from the top of the board into the less expensive inner layers.
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Maintaining Signal Integrity
At frequencies over 200 MHz, board designers must pay particular attention to signal integrity issues. "Signal integrity is all about the white space on the schematic. You can see the chips, packaging, wiring and the other components. Signal integrity is all about the spaces between those components," said Eric Bogatin.
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Column: PCB101 by Bob Tarzwell
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New Column: PCB 101
We all know the buzz words: impedance, 50 ohms, 10%, balanced lines, CTE, dielectric constant and loss, and countless more. In this new series, PCB 101, I will break down some of these buzz words in layman's terms in the hopes that more people will understand what's happening inside the circuit.
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Design News & Additional Information
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ANSYS Releases Ansoft Designer 6.0
With Ansoft Designer® 6.0's new Solver on Demand technology from ANSYS, electronic design engineers can now quickly and accurately analyze signal-integrity, power-integrity and electromagnetic interference problems from a single schematic- and layout-based environment.
Isola Releases New Design Tool
Today Isola Group, SARL, has launched the Beta version of its new IsoStacka software tool. The web-based tool will allow Isola's direct customers and OEMs to design stack-ups for printed circuit boards using Isola's materials.
AXELSYS Joins ACTEL Partner Program
The program is a cooperative effort between Actel and independent providers of FPGA design services, IP, embedded software or hardware products or services that support Actel FPGA devices.
PWB Inc. Earns Letter of Appreciation From NASA
Following a launch pad failure, PWB Inc.'s Interconnect Stress Test system determined the root cause when no other test could find the problem. "This endorsement by NASA is a major confirmation to PWB of its deployment of its technology throughout the Mil/Aero industry," said Bill Birch, President of PWB Inc.
Mentor, NI Collaboration: Faster Test Bench Development
Collaborative efforts between Mentor Graphics and National Instruments have resulted in a solution that provides test-oriented feedback to designers at every step of the design process. The SystemVision SVX collaboration environment allows test program development to proceed without physical prototypes.
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