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Column: The Shaughnessy Report
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Show Time for Designers, From Shanghai to Vegas CPCA and IPC APEX/EXPO are just around the corner, and we'll be bringing you plenty of coverage, including Real Time video interviews from Shanghai and Las Vegas. These events that were once devoted to the fabrication and assembly of PCBs now offer something for PCB designers and design engineers as well.
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Column: The Gold Record |
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Column: Maxed Out |
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Maxed Out: Embedded "Cage Fight" at ESC Silicon Valley When creating an embedded system, should you use a discrete off-the-shelf processor, or should you embed the processor - in the form of a soft core or hard core - in an FPGA? This is the topic of my "Cage Fight" debate with Jim Turley at ESC Silicon Valley on April 27.
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Column: The Bare (Board) Truth
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A Data Release Ten-Point Review Mark Thompson lists 10 items that should be reviewed prior to releasing a PCB design to be fabricated. He stresses that, depending upon the application, some items may not be feasible, but, for the most part, these review items will save you time and money.
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Design News & Additional Information
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Quantum CAD Offers Free Pre-Design Consulting The company wants to offer its expertise in issues such as cost-reduction opportunities, reliability analysis and BOM management to its customers to make sure their projects become a complete success.
Zuken Offers PCB Design Software E-Training in America Based on customer feedback, Zuken in America has launched an e-training package for its PCB design solution, Design Gateway. This more cost effective and flexible training approach overcomes scheduling and travel issues associated with traditional group classroom-based training.
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.
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