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Posts tagged with 'Design Collaboration'

Assess Your PCB Development Performance

Posted Jun 15, 2010, by Ed Goldman

In one of my first blog posts I wrote about PCB Designers being the “unsung heroes of innovation.” After spending a week in Israel and visiting PCB Fabricators and Assemblers, I am even more convinced of the complexity of the PCB Development process. The cycle of complexity is accelerating - we see this amongst our customers in our annual Technology Leadership Awards and we see this day in and day out … Read More

Tags: Design Collaboration, Design for Manufacture, Aberdeen, Signal Integrity

Thermal Design: Who’s Job Is It Anyway?

Posted Dec 4, 2009, by John Parry

While I was waiting for the last few people for my presentation ‘Thermal Design: A Key Part of the Electronics Design Flow’ at the UK Solutions Expo at the Heritage Motor Center in Gaydon a couple of weeks back I thought I’d poll the audience with a couple of questions. It’s rare that I get to speak to an audience of electronics engineers, so I was interested to see how they view thermal design. First … Read More

Tags: Upfront Analysis, Thermal Design, Design Collaboration, Design Process, Concurrent CFD, FloTHERM.PCB, Fluent Design, FloEFD