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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 05 February 2009

SANTA CLARA, CA –The DesignVision Awards were recently presented at DesignCon 2009. Awards were handed out in eight categories.

PCB Design Tools and Technologies: PCB Matrix for the Symbol Wizard.

System Modeling and Simulation Tools: Signal Integrity Software for Quantum Channel Designer.

Interconnect Technologies and Components: Molex Inc. for the Impact Backplane Connector System.

IC Design Tools: Mentor Graphics for the Olympus-SoC Parallel Timing Analysis and Optimization.

Design Verification Tools: Sequence Design for PowerArtist.

Semiconductor Components and ICs: Xilinx for the Xilinx Virtex-5 TXT FPGA Platform.

Semiconductor IP: Cadence Design Systems for the ChipEstimate.co IP Ecosystem.

Test and Measurement Equipment: SyntheSys Research Inc. for DPP 12500A-4T.

Details: Written by Kathy Nargi-Toth; Category: Design News; Published: 03 February 2009

WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics has released a power integrity analysis tool, HyperLynx PI, which according to the company provides easy-to-learn-and-use setup and accurate analysis of power plane structures.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 03 February 2009

PITTSBURGH – The Millennia Group Inc. (TMG) has named Pete Wasnac director of sales and marketing. He will report to Ron Cosper, president and COO.

Wasnac will be responsible for managing sales and marketing activities and supervising the sales representatives. He brings more than 20 years of experience in electronics distribution and manufacturing.

Prior to joining TMG, he worked for Avnet Electronic Marketing and Nielsen-Kellerman. He was also the general manager of operations at Arrow Electronics for 18 years.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 02 February 2009

SANTA CLARA, CA and TAMIL NADU, INDIA – Zero Defects International and Skyla Technologies have partnered to provide cost-effective Virtual CAM services for the PCB industry.

India-based Skyla will give job quotes, date input, pre-CAM, stack-up/impedance, DFM, panelization and custom scripting to companies. Zero Defects will be the exclusive distributor in North America.

Services are on a subscription or per-use basis to keep costs down and to maximize speed and efficiency.

CHICAGO– Electronic Interconnect Technology (EI) has added a full range of printed circuit fabrication data verification services to its menu.

Data verification allows users to sort out PCB design and DFM issues early in the design process to avoid production problems later.

“We run extensive DRC/DFM analysis on all incoming Gerber files, prototypes or production so that any issues or concerns that we find are quickly relayed to our customers,” explained Pratish Patel, president and CEO.

MAYNARD, MA – A paper written by Signal Integrity Software Inc. (SiSoft) and co-authored with Cisco Systems has been nominated as a Best Paper Finalist at DesignCon 2009.

“A Simple Via Experiment” presents an analytical model for understanding and predicting behavior of via structures, correlated to lab measurements. Theoretical, 3D field solver and measured data will be presented for an experimental via structure designed so that the experiment can be easily repeated.

Dr. Michael Steinberger of SiSoft will present the paper on February 3.