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SMYRNA, GA UP Media Group today announced that Dr. Chris Urmson, inventor of the self-navigating "Boss" vehicle and director of technology for the Urban Challenge at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, will keynote PCB West 2008.

The keynote will be presented on Tuesday, September 16, at 11 a.m. in the Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, CA, the headquarters hotel for PCB West 2008.

The use of semiconductors to improve all aspects of the driving experience—from safety, entertainment, navigation and even steering—is on the rise. In this exciting keynote, "Boss" inventor Dr. Chris Urmson will discuss the challenges and solutions in building such an extremely complex automobile. He will include details of the DARPA Urban Challenge, describe "Boss's" overall system architecture and highlight the vehicle’s many component technologies. "Boss" is a Chevy Tahoe with more than 300,000 lines of code, capable of autonomously navigating in town and in traffic. It is equipped with more than a dozen lasers, cameras and radar systems to view the world.

Dr. Urmson is director of technology for the Urban Challenge, part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He has researched robotics for Science Applications International, Caterpillar, DARPA and several other organizations. His primary research is on autonomous vehicles that are capable of safely and reliably navigating urban traffic, and involves perception, behavioral reasoning, motion planning, and mechatronic design. His team won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007.

Dr. Urmson has published more than two dozen papers and journal articles on robot applications. He has a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s in computer engineering from the University of Manitoba.

For more information about the 17th annual PCB West or to register for the conference or exhibition, visit www.pcbwest.com.

SAN JOSE, CA -- CAD Design Software and CADParts & Consulting announced that CADParts & Consulting has entered into a VAR agreement with CAD Design Software to sell and support CAD Design Software’s line of design and layout tools, with a focus on PCB, Radio Frequency / Microwave, Flex, and Hybrid/MCM (LTCC) technologies.  Additionally, CADParts & Consulting is integrating several seats of CAD Design Software’s EPD (Electronics Packaging Designer) into their development flow to further support their design customers.

Don Beane, President of CADParts & Consulting LLC, said "With the addition of CAD Design Software’s specialized layout tools, we now can offer our customers highly automated layout solutions for unique designs that have traditionally been highly manual operations.  And we are also able to benefit internally from the reduced time to market by reducing our overall design time with CAD Design Software”.
 
Said Gordon Jensen, CAD Design Software’s vice president of sales and marketing, “We are continually working closely with numerous military and commercial customers and material suppliers to further automate the design process of leading edge technologies, which results in reduced design time while improving yields (DFM) for our customers.  CADParts is well known in the industry as a top provider of leading edge design solutions and design services.  We are happy to partner with CADParts to better help all of our customers achieve further reduction in time-to-market.”

SANTA CLARA, CA -- CADParts & Consulting LLC announced that Victor Tejeda will head up its ATE Design Services Division. Plans for the ATE Division include onshore ATE and DUT design at off-shore prices.
 
Victor Tejeda brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the ATE design division. Tejeda is a IPC certified designer with a long history of designing Probe Cards, Load Boards, DUT boards and tester boards for Agilent, Fairchild, Credence, Teradyne and TI interfaces.
 
“We are constantly looking to expand our services to provide all aspects of electronic product design and development. This is another example of what has fueled our rapid growth over the past 6 years, find a need in the design industry and put together the talent to fill the need.” said Don Beane, president of CADParts & Consulting LLC.

YAVNE, ISRAEL -- Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. announced Dan Hoz has been appointed as President and CEO. Hoz has been the company’s CFO for the past five years. He replaces former CEO Ofer Shofman who announced his retirement six weeks ago after 15 years with the company, the past six years as president and CEO.
SAN JOSE, CA--The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced the EDA industry revenue for Q1 2008 were basically flat, declining slightly by 1.2% compared to Q1 2007. 

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MUNICH, GERMANY and WESTFORD, MA - Zuken has named Tropical PCB Design Services as its American Cadstar Distributor of the Year.
 
"A 100% increase in Cadstar sales... can be attributed to… the improvement in Tropical’s internal processes to deliver more value and better customer service." said Jeroen Leinders, Cadstar Distribution Manager.
 
Tropical PCB Design Services president Sam Burton said, "The differences between Cadstar development, distribution, and the support model, compared with that of our competitors is starkly apparent, which is why more... customers are turning to Cadstar as their stable solution for the future."

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