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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 19 February 2009

PORTLAND, OR – Stilwell Baker has expanded its services to include electrical engineering and project management. The new services are available immediately.

With these additions, Stilwell will be able to take a design from the architectural/system/logic design phase through component selection and sourcing, DfX reviews, material selection, board design and layout, to prototype manufacturing and test.

“Our customers’ challenge continues to be the quick and cost effective development of electronics products in an environment with rapidly changing technology and limited internal resources,” said Peter Hoogerhuis, COO. “These expanded engineering services provide a broader solution for companies looking to outsource circuit board development.”

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 19 February 2009

TOKYO – NEC Corp. has developed a technology to produce carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors using a printing process.

By reviewing insulation ink and ink for metals, corrosion resistance in areas between transistor layers are enhanced. Also, resin substrates can be used because temperatures during production are less than 200° C. CNT transistors that were produced using the technology showed p-type conductivity and an on/off ratio of approximately 1,000, according to the company.

Details: Written by Administrator; Category: Design News; Published: 17 February 2009

SMYRNA, GA – UP Media Group Inc. seeks abstracts for PCB Design Conference West 2009, to be held Sept. 14 - 18 in Santa Clara, CA. The event includes a five-day technical conference and two-day exhibition.
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Details: Written by Administrator; Category: Design News; Published: 17 February 2009

MARLBOROUGH, MA – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted DownStream Technologies a patent for certain technology covering the automation of PCB documentation in an electronic release package file.

The patent is related to technologies in DownStream’s BluePrint-PCB software.

The patent further covers the core technology contained in the BluePrint-PCB shape engine, which is configured to display simultaneous views of a PCB CAD database; the use of reconfigurable objects that display different views of the CAD database; the technology behind BluePrint’s template elements that can be customized and linked to the CAD database, and technology that automates engineering change orders (ECO) in the CAD database as reflected in the release package.

BluePrint-PCB was released in 2006 for automating the creation of comprehensive electronic PCB documentation.

TAIPEI – MiTAC International reported preliminary January revenue of NT$3.5 billion, down 37% year-over-year.

The company, a leading designer and assembler of computers, IT and consumer electronics, said sales were down 8.2% from December, the result of the global recession.

MiTAC designs and builds a variety of electronics products, including the Magellan Navigation systems, which it acquired last year.

SAN JOSE, CA -- The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Consortium announced it has appointed Cadence president and CEO Lip-Bu Tan to its board of directors to serve the organization through the spring of 2010.

"We are delighted to have Lip-Bu join our board of directors at this pivotal point in the organization's history," said EDA Consortium executive director, Robert Gardner. "With our connections to the semiconductor industry and the greater electronics design community becoming more vital than ever, it is critical that member companies of the EDA Consortium continue to come together to ensure that the collective needs of the industry are effectively represented."

Serving with Lip-Bu Tan are:

Walden C. Rhines, EDA Consortium chairman, and chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation.
Aart de Geus, EDA Consortium vice-chairman, and chairman and CEO of Synopsys, Inc.
Kathryn Kranen, EDA Consortium vice-chairman, and president and CEO of Jasper Design Automation, Inc.
John Bourgoin, EDA Consortium director, and president and CEO of MIPS Technologies, Inc.
John Kibarian, EDA Consortium director, and president, CEO and co-founder of PDF Solutions, Inc.
Rajeev Madhavan, EDA Consortium director, and chairman & CEO of Magma Design Automation, Inc.
Chris Rowen, EDA Consortium director, and founder & CTO of Tensilica, Inc.
Sanjay Srivastava, EDA Consortium director, and president and CEO of Denali Software, Inc.