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WILSONVILLE, OR — Mentor Graphics today called for entries of its 22nd annual Technology Leadership Awards competition, continuing its tradition of recognizing excellence in printed circuit board design.

Read more: Mentor Announces PCB Technology Leadership Awards

SAN JOSE – First-quarter PCB and MCM software sales fell 8.8% year-over-year to $109.4 million, says the EDA Consortium.

Over the past four quarters, PCB and MCM sales have fallen 8.9%, the trade group says.

Read more: Report: Q1 EDA Revenue Up 4.6% to $1.25B

SMYRNA, GA – Registration is now open for PCB West, the premier conference and exhibition for PCB assembly engineers, designers, fabricators and managers.

Read more: Registration Open for PCB West 2010

SANTA ANA, CA -- A new user-driven website for creating, managing and sharing 2D and 3D component part and package data is up and running.

Read more: New Parts Library Site Follows 'Wiki' Model

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Carl Icahn has upped his stake in Mentor Graphics for the third time in a month.

Read more: Icahn Boosts Mentor Stake to 11%

CAMPBELL, CA – TSMC has included three Sigrity chip, package and system co-design products – XtractIM, OrbitIO Planner and OptimizePI – in TSMC Reference Flow 11.0.

Flow support now includes streamlined IC package assessment, package model extraction, chip/system IO planning, and power delivery system optimization.

XtractIM provides intuitive assessment of IC package performance. OrbitIO Planner gives designers visibility into complex physical IO interactions, and OptimizePI offers targeted power delivery system improvement with a high-degree of automation to support IC package and system-level decoupling capacitor optimization.
No financial terms between the two firms were disclosed.