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THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA– Altium and Digi-Key Corporation have entered into a global distribution agreement. As part of the agreement, Digi-Key will distribute Altium’s Desktop NanoBoard, which includes a 12-month timed Altium Designer License. Marketed as the Innovation Station, the combination provides quick prototyping, concept exploration and device experimentation. Designers are able to use the “live design” to create functionality in programmable hardware and switch to physical hardware in order to test and analyze–without having to create custom prototype boards. Digi-Key will also carry the extended range of NanoBoard plug-in peripheral and FPGA daughter boards.

SMYRNA, GA – The PCB West 2008 two-day exhibition will be held on September 16 - 17, 2008, at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, CA. The exhibition features a sold-out show floor of 46 exhibiting companies, each displaying and demonstrating the lastest products, services and technologies for the printed circuit board (PCB) design industry.

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OLATHE, KS -- Bogatin Enterprises and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) announce new Professional Development Certification courses to be given in conjunction with the IEEE’s Educational Partner’s Program. This series of courses, scheduled to begin in January 2009, will cover the latest in high-speed design, simulation and modeling techniques. Each course will provide 40 hours of instruction through a combination of on-line and classroom modules.
MILTON KEYNES, UK -- Labtech Microwave has appointed Stephen Melvin as a principal engineer for MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuits) packaging and LCP (liquid crystal polymer) products.
 
Prior to joining Labtech Microwave Mr. Melvin was the senior design engineer for RFMD (formerly Filtronic Compound Semiconductors), where he designed MMICs for power amplifiers as well as microwave radio components and broadband MIC (microwave integrated circuit) amplifiers for EW (electronic warfare) applications.
AURORA, IL– As part of its role for the Advanced Materials for Ubiquitous Leading-edge Electromagnetic Technologies (AMULET) research project, Vector Fields has provided antenna developers with enhanced design tools to simulate metamaterial structures as a way to reduce the costs and the size in wireless production. Metamaterials can be used to tailor the effective impedance of a substrate or ground plane, to improve an antenna’s radiation pattern and efficiency. Metamaterial structures could additionally be used to integrate common filtering requirements such as band pass filters into the two-dimensional PCB structure, to reduce the cost and size of a wireless product's electronic bill of materials (BOM). The company plans to add modeling support for any future developments that come as AMULET begins to explore the use of active metamaterials. 
SMYRNA, GAUP Media Group, parent company of Circuits Assembly and Printed Circuit Design & Fab, announced The Future of ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Webinar would be broadcast Sept. 23 at 2 p.m. EDT.
 
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