Mentor Graphics’ ECAD-MCAD Collaborator product enables bidirectional, digital communication of incremental design changes and automates the review and approval processes from design inception to manufacturing. Based on ProSTEP iViP Association-approved electromechanical interchange standard and developed in collaboration with PTC. Works in the Expedition Enterprise and Board Station XE PCB design flows, and PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension.
 
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Rogers Corporation introduces RO3000 and RO4000 laminates that are antenna-grade, high-frequency circuit materials, featuring low passive intermodulation, low loss and higher thermal conductivity for improved power-handling capability. The RO3000 series is a PTFE-based circuit material that combines lower loss and minimal variation in dielectric constant and can be used in applications through 40 GHz. RO4000 laminates are glass-reinforced hydrocarbon/ceramic laminates that are reported to provide superior dimensional stability and tight dielectric-constant tolerance across the panel.

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Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced SystemVue 2008, an electronic design automation (EDA) platform for electronic system-level (ESL) design. The platform is reported to reduce physical layer (PHY) design time by half for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures for not only wireless, but also aerospace/defense applications. SystemVue offers an easy-to-use environment with links to hardware implementation and tests, as well as complements existing EDA tools used in FPGAs, DSPs and ASICs and Analog/RF components.

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Sunstone Circuits launched LiveBOM, an interactive bill of materials functionality within PCB123 design software that supplies designers with real-time pricing, availability and technical part information from Digi-Key. The suite tracks the rolled up per-board pricing and quantity through either the Digi-Key or manufacturer part number.

"Partnering with Digi-Key to launch LiveBOM gives customers a more efficient and accurate way to make component purchasing decisions, which is the most expensive part of the prototype manufacturing process," explains Terry Heilman, CEO of Sunstone.

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