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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 23 December 2008

MARLBOROUGH, MA – DownStream Technologies LLC announced that it has begun shipping CAM350 Release 10 and BluePrint-PCB Release 2. In addition, the company is offering the two products for download. After extensive development, integration between the products is complete, providing a synergistic solution for PCB post-processing.
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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 23 December 2008

MUNICH, GERMANY and WESTFORD, MA – Zuken introduces a simulation design kit for Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs. The company is offering the kit free of charge to customers with maintenance agreements.

The design kit contains CR-5000 Lightning, the company’s high-speed design environment. It includes simulation models, net topology templates and associated documentation.

The kit allows engineers to quickly evaluate signal integrity of memory I/O without extensive preparation.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 22 December 2008

DARMSTADT, GERMANY – Computer Simulation Technology (CST) has announced the winners of the CST University Publication Award. The annual grant rewards university institutes and researchers for work in 3D EM field simulation.
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Details: Written by Administrator; Category: Design News; Published: 19 December 2008

SAN JOSE, CA – The MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council in February will sponsor a symposium on semiconductor packaging’s effect on consumer electronics.

The technical event will address packages for consumer products, with session topics including time-to-market and consumer semiconductor packaging; cost-of-ownership challenges for consumer products; solutions for consumer product miniaturization, and advancing technologies for consumer electronics.

It takes place Feb. 19 in San Jose. For more information, visit www.meptec.org.

MUNICH, GERMANY and WESTFORD, MA – Zuken is developing the Zuken PDM Adapter, a unified intercommunication bridge between CR-5000 and third-party PDM systems..

WYLIE, TX -- Global Innovation Corp announces fiscal Q1 2009 financial results. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Circuit Boards Inc. The company designs, engineers and manufactures PCBs.

Net sales increased to $9,367,803 for the three months ending October 31, 2008 up 11% compared to the same period in 2007. A one-time large order from a new customer is responsible for the increase.

Gross profit for the same period was $1,944,266, also up 11%. Gross margin remained consistent with 2007, at 21%. Net income for the quarter was $160,200.