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Altium Designer updates
Library Expert
Major enhancements have been to the library ex-
pert's output to Altium Designer. This latest up-
date of the library expert (v2015) offers users a
very streamlined method of creating high quality
IPC-7351 compliant Footprints, 3D STeP mod-
els, and Footprint Attributes for Description and
height, simultaneously, in Altium Designer.
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Cadence Earns Commenda-
tion from City of San Jose
San Jose Mayor Chuck reed and the San Jose City
Council have recognized the company as one of
the 25 industry-driving companies generating the
most growth and jobs in the city. "The people
of San Jose and Silicon valley have changed the
world, and it's thanks to industry-driving compa-
nies like Cadence that our city continues to be the
capital of Silicon valley, the world's center of inno-
vation," Mayor reed said.
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IEEE to Adopt the
HDBaseT Standard
The hDBaseT Specifications 1.1.0 and 2.0 have
been approved by the Ieee Standards Association
(Ieee-SA) Standards Board for adoption as part of
the organization's standard portfolio. hDBaseT will
complement Ieee-SA's portfolio of market-proven
communications and technology standards.
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Zuken Wins Award for
Ev Research Collaboration
zuken plays an important role in this research by
advancing new technology concepts for eMC-re-
lated modelling of power and ground systems for
control unit structures and for incorporating pow-
er-ground related noise in signal integrity simula-
tion. eMC issues in electric vehicles can become
critical due to the high currents and voltages re-
quired by electric vehicle engines.
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INLYNK Teams With
Octopart
and Altium
for Optymo
InlynK has released version 4.3 of its flagship
product. optymo is a sophisticated BoM and
parts management solution that helps organiza-
tions to better manage their design and produc-
tion steps. This new version is the result of a very
successful collaboration between Altium, octopart
and InlynK.
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Top 10 Most-read PCB
Design Magazine Columns
It's been a wild year in the PCB design commu-
nity. naturally, the top columns in The PCB Design
Magazine during 2014 cover a maze of topics,
from high-speed design to design for manufac-
ture. So, without further ado, here are the Top 10
columns from The PCB Design Magazine of the
past year.
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