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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and BEIJING, CHINA - Altium has appointed Digital China as a major distributor for Altium Designer and the NanoBoard reconfigurable development platform. Within in the last year, the company has seen its sales increase 75% in China, and it hopes the partnership will support continued growth.

Digital China will also participate in Altium’s Investment in Innovation (I3) License Compliance Program. The program is a collaborative license amnesty and conversion plan aimed at the estimated 285,000 unlicensed users of Altium’s Protel in China.

NAPA, CA– Accellera is accepting nominations for its Technical Excellence Award. This is the sixth year the company will present the award that honors the achievement of its Technical Subcommittee members.

Recognizing individuals who contributed to the EDA, intellectual property (IP), semiconductor or electronics systems industries, the award will be presented in February at Accellera’s Design Verification Conference. Nominations are due by January 9, 2009.

SMYRNA, GA – UP Media Group Inc. seeks abstracts for PCB Design Conference East 2009, to be held Apr. 27 - May 1 at the Westin in Waltham, MA.

Read more: Call for Abstracts Issued for PCB East 2009

SAN JOSE, CA -- Cadence president, chief executive officer and director Michael Fister has resigned. The company also announced the resignation of Kevin Bushby, EVP - worldwide operations, James S. Miller, Jr., EVP - products and technologies organization, William Porter, EVP and CAO and R.L. Smith McKeithen, EVP corporate affairs.

Read more: UPDATE: Cadence Shake Up, CEO and Execs Resign

HANOVER, NH– Daat Research Corporation introduces CoolitPCB v4.0, the cost-effective, easy-to-use CFD software that provides a thermal modeling option. PCB designers can perform board level analysis; predict thermal behavior of designs and pinpoint optimum component placement on boards.

The software allows designers to construct models of Ball Grid Arrays, Dual Inline Packages and Quad Flat Packages in detail. They can also select, modify and save IC packages from the extensive IC Package Library, saving the results. The models can be converted into compact models, allowing for rapid computation and saving valuable time.