Posted Aug 30, 2011, by John Isaac
A few weeks ago we announced the 2011 TLA contest and the entries are coming to us from all over the world. If you have not entered yet, you, your company and your design team may be missing an opportuntiy to be recognized as one of the top PCB design innovators in the world. Entering is an easy process and if you need help, just contact your local Mentor sales rep or AE. They will be more than … Read More
Tags:
Expedition_Enterprise,
PADS,
Board_Station,
PCB_Design,
technology_leadership_awards
Posted Aug 29, 2011, by John Isaac
In many of our presentations and articles we refer to the Aberdeen survey report that took 536 company executive inputs, choose the top 20% who were successfully meeting their business goals, and identified common best practices that enabled these “best-in-class” to achieve those goals.
We took those best practices and have created a web site that further details them as well as points … Read More
Tags:
concurrency,
Expedition_Enterprise,
Collaboration,
virtual_prototyping,
IP_management,
PCB_Design
Posted Aug 10, 2009, by John Isaac
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
Posted Jun 8, 2009, by Jim Martens
To all of you who attended our Introduction to PADS 9.0 Webinar, I want to thank you. To those of you who have not had a chance to view, please click here to register and view. The attendance to this event was outstanding – in fact, many of you may have been shut out of the event since our servers were maxed out. I apologize for any inconvenience, and, if this were the case—you can still view the event … Read More
Tags:
PCB_Design,
PCB Flow,
PADS
Posted Jun 1, 2009, by John Isaac
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
Posted May 27, 2009, by Happy Holden
For everyone using the new HyperLynx PI tool, here is a list of available PCB Laminates that are candidates for the PWR/GND pair in your stackup. This table is from page 217 (Fig 32) of my HDI HANDBOOK. The entire Chapter 5 is about “Materials for HDI” and you might find it interesting.
Some of the abbreviation used in the Table are: CCL=copper clad laminate; film=copper clad unreinforced polyimide … Read More
Tags:
PCB_mfg,
PCB_Laminate,
HDI_Design,
PCB_Manufacturing,
HDI,
Laminate,
PCB_Design,
FR4
Posted May 21, 2009, by John Isaac
Since I got into the PCB design tool writing business back in 1967 (hard to believe I’m still alive) with IBM, there has been a focus on creating better schematic, place, route and manufacturing data generation capabilities. And we as EDA vendors still have to continue to improve what we supply to our users for the design of the PCB: Keep up with the latest PCB fabrication technologies. Handle increasing … Read More
Tags:
Thermal Analysis,
Electromechanical,
EMS,
ECAD_MCAD,
Power_Integrity,
Signal_Integrity,
Expedition_Enterprise,
PCB_Design
