AUGUST 2019 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 113
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Tim's Takeaways: Clear
Communication Takes the Cake
E
Whether baking a cake or
building a circuit board, it's
all about clear communica-
tion. If the person writing
the recipe had not made the
choice to clearly communi-
cate what their intentions
were for baking that cake, I would have been
lost. A missing ingredient here or an incorrect
oven temperature.
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Connect the Dots: The Future of
PCB Manufacturing Doesn't Belong
to Robots, but to the Users
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Is the world ready for the con-
sequences of rapid automa-
tion? Will the use of robots
displace entire categories of
workers? Can artificial intelli-
gence really "think"? How will
manufacturing, including PCB manufacturing,
be affected by all of these smart robots? These
questions actually come from a pamphlet pub-
lished in 1955: "The Age of Automation: Its Ef-
fects on Human Welfare."
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The Pulse: Modelled, Measured,
Mindful—Closing the SI Loop
E
At speeds up to 2 or 3 GHz, it
usually suffices to ensure the
transmission line impedance
matches the driver and receiv-
er. And a field solver makes
light work of the calculation.
But push the frequency higher, and other fac-
tors come into play.
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EDA Industry Revenue Up
16.3% in 1Q19
E
The electronic system
design (ESD) Alliance
Market Statistics Service
(MSS) announced that
the electronic design au-
tomation (EDA) indus-
try revenue increased
16.3% for Q1 2019 to
$2606.4 million compared to $2241 million in
Q1 2018.
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Mentor Video: Sharing Data
Throughout the Lifecycle
with EDX
E
The Xpedition EDM
data management
suite of tools is de-
signed to provide
seamless integra-
tion between en-
gineering and external PLM and ERP systems
across the enterprise. This integration utilizes
the Enterprise Data eXchange (EDX) data for-
mat to share data throughout the product life-
cycle.
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Words of Advice: What Feature
Would You Like to See in Your
CAD Tool?
E
In a recent survey, we asked
the following question: What
feature would you like to see
in your CAD tool? Here are
a few of the answers, edited
slightly for clarity.
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