SAN JOSE, CA -- CAD Design Software and CADParts & Consulting announced that CADParts & Consulting has entered into a VAR agreement with CAD Design Software to sell and support CAD Design Software’s line of design and layout tools, with a focus on PCB, Radio Frequency / Microwave, Flex, and Hybrid/MCM (LTCC) technologies. Additionally, CADParts & Consulting is integrating several seats of CAD Design Software’s EPD (Electronics Packaging Designer) into their development flow to further support their design customers.
Don Beane, President of CADParts & Consulting LLC, said "With the addition of CAD Design Software’s specialized layout tools, we now can offer our customers highly automated layout solutions for unique designs that have traditionally been highly manual operations. And we are also able to benefit internally from the reduced time to market by reducing our overall design time with CAD Design Software”.
Said Gordon Jensen, CAD Design Software’s vice president of sales and marketing, “We are continually working closely with numerous military and commercial customers and material suppliers to further automate the design process of leading edge technologies, which results in reduced design time while improving yields (DFM) for our customers. CADParts is well known in the industry as a top provider of leading edge design solutions and design services. We are happy to partner with CADParts to better help all of our customers achieve further reduction in time-to-market.”
SANTA CLARA, CA -- CADParts & Consulting LLC announced that Victor Tejeda will head up its ATE Design Services Division. Plans for the ATE Division include onshore ATE and DUT design at off-shore prices. Victor Tejeda brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the ATE design division. Tejeda is a IPC certified designer with a long history of designing Probe Cards, Load Boards, DUT boards and tester boards for Agilent, Fairchild, Credence, Teradyne and TI interfaces.
“We are constantly looking to expand our services to provide all aspects of electronic product design and development. This is another example of what has fueled our rapid growth over the past 6 years, find a need in the design industry and put together the talent to fill the need.” said Don Beane, president of CADParts & Consulting LLC.
YAVNE, ISRAEL -- Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. announced Dan Hoz has been appointed as President and CEO. Hoz has been the company’s CFO for the past five years. He replaces former CEO Ofer Shofman who announced his retirement six weeks ago after 15 years with the company, the past six years as president and CEO.
SAN JOSE, CA--The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced the EDA industry revenue for Q1 2008 were basically flat, declining slightly by 1.2% compared to Q1 2007.
"A 100% increase in Cadstar sales... can be attributed to… the improvement in Tropical’s internal processes to deliver more value and better customer service." said Jeroen Leinders, Cadstar Distribution Manager.
Tropical PCB Design Services president Sam Burton said, "The differences between Cadstar development, distribution, and the support model, compared with that of our competitors is starkly apparent, which is why more... customers are turning to Cadstar as their stable solution for the future."
WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics increased its bid for Flomerics to about $2.43 per share, or $60 million based on outstanding shares to close the deal.