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Mentor Graphics Reports
Revenues of $291M in
Fiscal Q3
Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced fi-
nancial results for the company's fiscal third quar-
ter ended october 31, 2015. The company report-
ed revenues of $291 million. For the fourth quarter
of fiscal 2016, the company expects revenues of
about $336 million.
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SnapEDA: The Female-owned
Startup Revolutionizing
CAD Data
SnapeDA founder Natasha Baker may mark the
beginning of a new trend in eDA: young fe-
male entrepreneurs. (When was the last time
we heard about an eDA startup?) As her com-
pany prepared for a major launch, Natasha took
time to explain the philosophy behind SnapeDA,
and how the company is helping designers and
engineers manage an ever-increasing volume of
CAD data.
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Digi-key Partners with
Accelerated Designs to
Provide Symbols and Footprints
for 7.2M Components
Digi-Key electronics has announced an exclusive,
global agreement to distribute software and de-
sign data from Accelerated Designs. Accelerated
Designs focuses on providing engineers and elec-
tronics manufacturers eDA-tool-neutral software
and data that improves efficiency of adding and
managing new parts when designing circuits and
printed circuit boards.
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Navigating the Global
Materials Supply Chain:
A Roundtable Discussion
At SMTAI, Andy Shaughnessy sat down for a
roundtable discussion with some key players from
the materials side of the supply chain. Participants
included two executives from ventec: Mark Good-
win, Coo uSA and europe for ventec Internation-
al Group; and Jack Pattie, president of ventec uSA.
Also participating in the roundtable were Schoeller
electronics Ceo Michael Keuthen, and Bob Willis
of the National Physics laboratory.
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