Altium Satellite Vault server application can be local-, LAN-, WAN- or cloud-hosted. Is used to create secure design data repositories that enable collaborative management of electronic design data across the design, procurement and manufacturing spaces. Complement Altium Designer 10 electronic product development system. Vaults can be accessed directly from within Altium Designer 10 or via a standard browser interface. Provide storage, formal revision management and lifecycle state management. Design content is validated when released to a Vault from Altium Designer, where generated content is stored as named revisions that have a definable lifecycle status. Vault items typically represent reusable design content, components and released designs for fabrication of bare boards and electronic assemblies. Can reuse design data.

Altium Limited, www.altium.com

Pantheon PCB/Hybrid/RF layout design application enhancements provide benchmark design performance increases of up to 75x. Performance increases are notable in designs using block technology, which provides opportunities to shorten design cycle times and reduce repetitive edits by allowing full or partial board circuitry to be defined as a block and placed one or more times into another block, board, or panel. Supports placement of sub-blocks within main blocks; maintains connectivity with the schematic at all levels of board hierarchy, while permitting edits and automatic updates.

Intercept Technology, www.intercept.com  

CST Microwave Studio version 2011 SP3 has finite element-based eigenmode solver, alongside finite integration technique-based eigenmode solver. Features curved elements of arbitrary order; elements enable conformal representation of geometry that provides simulation accuracy. Includes high-performance computing options. Transient solver now supports NVIDIA Tesla 2o series. MPI-based parallelization is available for integral equation solver with MLFMM.

Computer Simulation Technology, www.cst.com   

MaxVIA plasma treatment system treats a variety of panel sizes and types. Provides high throughput and plasma uniformity in desmear and etchback applications for high density interconnect, flexible, and rigid circuit board manufacturing. Offers expanded plasma chamber to accommodate large panel sizes of up to 24 x 42"; has a throughput capacity of 92 to 138 units per hr., depending on panel size. Uses 75% less volume of CF4 gas than other systems for desmear applications. 

Nordson March, www.nordsonmarch.com