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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 23 February 2009

YAVNE, ISRAEL -- Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. announced Lior De Picciotto has joined the company’s executive management team as executive vice president, business and strategy.

Prior to joining Valor, De Picciotto held various management positions at Orbotech including representative director of Orbotech Japan, president of Orbotech Pacific and most recently corporate VP of marketing and business development.

De Picciotto will manage Valor’s subsidiary activities and will be responsible for the company’s ongoing business.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 23 February 2009

SANTA CLARA, CA -- Agilent Technologies Inc. announces the 2009 release of Advanced Design System (ADS) for high-frequency/high-speed co-design of integrated circuits (IC), packages and PCBs.

ADS provides circuit, package, board and system designers with a single EDA platform for shared simulation models. According to the company this can minimize design rework, reduce costs and shorten delays in communications during the product design process.

The co-design platform can provide verification of high-frequency or high-speed system performance across the IC, package and printed circuit board designs using common system-verification test benches. Designers can identify and correct component interactions earlier in the design cycle.

ADS 2009 interoperates with Cadence and Mentor back-end design platforms, allowing designers to import Cadence Allegro PCB, Advanced Package Designer and System-In-Package physical design data for co-designing with active components and Design Rule Check results from Cadence Assura, Mentor Calibre or Triquint MailDRC for viewing and correcting within ADS layout environment.

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.

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.

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.