CR-8000 printed circuit board design product family is designed for system-level multi-board design.

Design Force IC package and printed circuit board design environment enables single board, multi-board, and chip-package-board interconnect optimization in native 3D.

Valor MSS Business Intelligence product suite allows management of printed circuit board assembly lines to obtain reports and analysis of the quality, asset utilization, and materials management of production execution. Covers manufacturing execution process from line planning through execution, traceability, materials management, and test/quality assurance. Data are generated and made available to the business intelligence application for analysis and display functionality on management’s desktop. Dashboard display technology is reportedly easy to configure and use. Business intelligence functionality comes with more than 30 standard reports, as well as the ability to customize to the specific configurations and needs of the manufacturing organization.

Mentor Graphics, http://mentor.com/go/valor/bi

Eagle version 6.0 features a redesigned XML database structure that uses ASCII text as a format, reportedly allowing quick and easy design changes, importing of design information and translation from other design formats. Features include design reuse, for merging board/schematic pairs; routing capability improvements; library editor optimization, file description functionality, and more.

Premier Farnel, www.cadsoft.de/conditions_buy_now