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HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - Gerber Technology opened its 8000 square foot Advanced Technology Center (ATC) on April 8.

Among others, the center will serve the aerospace, composites, automotive and marine industries in Southeast Asian countries.

The center will provide product demonstration and training, and also be used to showcase the company’s automated spreading systems, multi-ply cutting systems, as well as new plotting, digitizing and computer-aided design applications.

The facility will also offer product testing and training for customers, engineers, designers and industry students in the region.

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SAN JOSE, CA - Cadence Design Systems has named Gideon Kemen as vice president of Field Operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

His responsibilities will include sales and technical field operations in the region. Kemen has been with the company for 14 years, with a previous position as sales director and general manager of Cadence Design Systems in Israel. Prior to that, he was with Intel for five years.

He will be stationed at the company’s office in Bracknell, England.

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CARLSBAD, CA - Altium has released a new plug-in daughter board hosting a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA, and the company reports that other daughter boards and peripheral boards will be released over the coming months.

Altium's Xilinx Virtex-4 daughter board provides an XC4VLX25-10FF668C FPGA and a range of on-board memories, and can be used with either the new Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 or the previous-generation NanoBoard-NB1.

Designers can reportedly create designs in different programmable devices and deploy them on the desktop NanoBoard for testing, debugging, analysis and redesign. The plug-in daughter boards and peripheral boards can be changed on the NanoBoard during development, and the company claims that the Altium Designer program will automatically reconfigure projects to use the new hardware.

“Altium Designer and the NanoBoard allow electronic product developers to unlock the potential of large-scale programmable devices such as the Xilinx Virtex-4, and build intelligent, connected products that can be easily updated,” said CEO Nick Martin.