Design News

SCHAUMBURG, IL – Some 20 months after Altium's announcement it would move its suite of PCB tools to the cloud, a handful of PCB industry veterans are vying to be the first to offer pre-CAM analysis through that same new channel.

Read more: CAM in the Cloud

HONOLULUNumerical Innovations announced its support of IPC-2581 for an open, neutral global standard for efficient PCB design data transfer.

Read more: NI Announces Support for IPC-2581

SANTA CLARA, CA – PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB is accepting entries for its 2012 New Product Introduction Awards (NPI) for printed circuit board design.

Read more: 2012 PCD&F NPI Design Awards Open

WESTFORD, MAZuken has appointed TechBridge Solutions a CADSTAR PCB design software reseller in North America.

TechBridge will cover Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Montreal, and Western Canada.

No financial terms were disclosed.

WILSONVILLE, ORMentor Graphics announced a call-for-entries for its 24th annual Technology Leadership Awards competition.

Read more: Entries Requested for 24th Annual PCB TLA

AUSTINNational Instruments announced new connectivity between NI LabVIEW system design software and AWR Visual System Simulator software for RF and microwave system design.

The connectivity helps engineers execute LabVIEW code directly from the AWR design environment. The AWR design environment can now incorporate LabVIEW signal processing capabilities, including multi-rate digital signal processing, wireless standards, modulation, and fixed-point math.

Engineers can integrate VHDL and LabVIEW FPGA module code through NI field-programmable gate array-based hardware directly into VSS diagrams.

New connectivity to both PXI and traditional RF instrumentation helps incorporate measurement data into simulations.

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