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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 02 October 2008

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND– XJTAG announced FlowCAD will be its distributor in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. FlowCAD was chosen for its reputation and market experience in German-speaking EDA communities. It will sell the XJTAG system, used for debugging, testing and programming PCBs and systems, to its established base of electronic design customers. FlowCAD believes XJTAG answers the demand for new and current approaches to boundary scan technology for its Central European customer base.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 01 October 2008

SANTA CLARA, CA– NBS Design, Inc. designs and assembles printed circuit boards. The company has recently expanded into a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. Read more ...

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 26 September 2008

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN and ALLEN, TX– Digi-Key Corporation and DLP Design have partnered for a worldwide distribution agreement. Customers are able to purchase DLP Design products directly from Digi-Key and will be featured on its website as well as print catalogs. Representatives for both companies believe this partnership will provide “faster time to market” for DLP products while increasing awareness of Digi-Key’s product line.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 25 September 2008

BANGALORE-- Flextronics' design services unit is drawing interest from Tech Mahindra Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., according to a report today in the Economic Times.

Flextronics previously announced plans to sell the Bangalore-based group, which employs 250 workers.

Neither party would comment on the report.

SMYRNA, GA – UP Media Group and Printed Circuit Design & Fab are pleased to announce that Gary Kipp of Intel (Hillsboro, OR) was inducted into the PCB Top Gun Hall of Fame at PCB West 2008.

CHINA–LED makers are attempting to lengthen life cycles by creating new products that would increase the illumination efficiency of LEDs from 70 lm/W to at least 100 lm/W. In addition, they are looking at alternative materials such as aluminum PCB substrates and soft silicone rubber pads as a method to improve heatsink designs.

Currently, flux densities are limited within the heatsink design, and many suppliers are releasing short-lived, high-brightness or long-life, low-flux models with lesser heat to dispel. In natural convection heatsink architecture, aluminum PCB substrates are good heat conductors and insulators, and in performance-to-cost, they are a grade higher than regular metal core substrates. Soft silicone rubber heat conductive pads can replace silicone grease, commonly used in high-end heatsinks.