When I graduated from RPI in 1967, I joined a small group of CAD software developers in IBM Federal Systems Division in Owego, NY. Our job was to write placement and routing software for the design of military computers (fire control, navigation, ….). John Cooper, later of Cooper and Chyan Technology (CCT) fame, was writing the routing software. I had responsibility for the placement and front-end … Read More
Tags: PCB_Design, PCB_Blog, PCB_Flow, Place_and_Route
Last spring, Mentor and Agilent announced that they had integrated their PCB and RF respective design solutions. Last fall, Applied Wave Research (AWR) announced a similar capability with Mentor. These solutions address the design of boards that contain a mix of RF, analog and digital circuitry, and, enable designers from these disciplines to collaborate on the same design at the same time. Users … Read More
Tags: Mixed_Technology, RF, PCB_Flow, RF_Simulation
Obviously in a downturn both people and companies spend less money. So what does this mean to the electronics industry? I believe that instead of pulling back, electronics companies have to charge forward with more aggressive designs to compete for the limited spending by consumers (either consumer products for personal use or products that serve other industries, depending on your company’s target … Read More
Tags: PCB_Flow, PCB_Design, Board Station Xe, Expedition Enterprise
A lot of my time is spent helping customers implementing HDI. I also spend a good deal of time teaching seminars on how to get started in HDI. The most frequent questions I receive are:
How Do I get Started?
How can I deal with a fabricator that states he can not build it to your recommendations?
What do we have to do to convince management that this is worthwhile?
In response to these questions … Read More
Tags: Redesign, Quality, Test_Vehicles, Education, HDI_Design, HDI, PCB_Flow, PCB_Reliability, HDI_Redesign, OEM_Manufacturing
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