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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 10 April 2008

SAN JOSE, CA - Cadence Design Systems has named Gideon Kemen as vice president of Field Operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

His responsibilities will include sales and technical field operations in the region. Kemen has been with the company for 14 years, with a previous position as sales director and general manager of Cadence Design Systems in Israel. Prior to that, he was with Intel for five years.

He will be stationed at the company’s office in Bracknell, England.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 07 April 2008

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 07 April 2008

CARLSBAD, CA - Altium has released a new plug-in daughter board hosting a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA, and the company reports that other daughter boards and peripheral boards will be released over the coming months.

Altium's Xilinx Virtex-4 daughter board provides an XC4VLX25-10FF668C FPGA and a range of on-board memories, and can be used with either the new Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 or the previous-generation NanoBoard-NB1.

Designers can reportedly create designs in different programmable devices and deploy them on the desktop NanoBoard for testing, debugging, analysis and redesign. The plug-in daughter boards and peripheral boards can be changed on the NanoBoard during development, and the company claims that the Altium Designer program will automatically reconfigure projects to use the new hardware.

“Altium Designer and the NanoBoard allow electronic product developers to unlock the potential of large-scale programmable devices such as the Xilinx Virtex-4, and build intelligent, connected products that can be easily updated,” said CEO Nick Martin.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 07 April 2008

CARLSBAD, CA – Altium has donated licenses of its Altium Designer integrated EDA software to FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for use in its annual robotics design competition.

1,500 teams of high school students participating in the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition have received access to Altium Designer EDA tool, the first electronics design software ever provided to the competition. At the FIRST Championship to be held April 17-19 in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, robots created by the teams from a standard kit of parts will compete in a series of matches to determine the world’s best robot.

Gerry Gaffney, Altium Senior VP said, “It’s great to be able to offer these young designers… an insight into the future of electronics design."

"We thank Altium for its commitment to young engineers, and consider the company a valued new member of the FIRST community.” said FIRST president, Paul R. Gudonis.

MULINO, OR – Sunstone Circuits launches the Sunstone ECOsystem Design Environment, a one-stop resource know-how, capabilities and expertise needed to produce a PCB. The Sunstone ECOsystem eliminates barriers to the successful PCB prototype design, manufacture and assembly process, enabling DfM and DfA methodologies and providing partners with a collaborative environment that the PCB designer, vendor and supplier can work in.

“Sunstone strives to be at the forefront of innovation and creativity in the PCB industry in order to remain the easiest PCB solutions provider to do business with,” said Terry Heilman, CEO of Sunstone Circuits. “We’ve spent the last year bringing the Sunstone ECOsystem to life. This industry-leading resource is one more step in our commitment to support designers from the time their project is conceived up until it is completed, from quote to delivery.”

The Sunstone ECOsystem helps prototype and quickturn PCB designers find the knowledge, vendors, tools and libraries needed to design projects and scale up to production with Sunstone’s manufacturing capabilities and partner fabrication and assembly services. See Sunstone Circuits at the IPC Printed Circuit Expo / APEX show in Las Vegas, April 1-3, 2008 at Booth # 2017 to learn more about the ECOsystem Design Environment.