January 2017 • The PCB Design Magazine 63
5
Top 10 Most-Read Design
Articles of 2016
Every January, I like to go
back through the last year
and see which articles had
the highest number of
views. They're usually the
articles that bring you PCB
design and industry infor-
mation that's relevant to
your job. Check out the most-read PCB design
articles from 2016.
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Sales and Marketing with
DownStream Technologies
From its inception, Down-
Stream Technologies has
been a new kind of soft-
ware tool company. Down-
Stream's post-processing
tools address one of the
most unpopular parts of the
design process: documen-
tation. DownStream's CEO
Rick Almeida discusses some of his firm's market-
ing and sales methods, the trends that he sees,
and the influence of the Internet on marketing.
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Ucamco Releases
Integr8tor v2016.12
Ucamco has launched the v2016.12 maintenance
release of Integr8tor. This release features impor-
tant extensions and enhancements to existing
functionality and
addresses a num-
ber of software in-
consistencies that
were reported by
our Integr8tor
user base.
8
Sunstone Circuits Makes Shift
in Strategy, Offerings
Sunstone has recently
made a shift in capabilities
that will enable a move
into the RF and micro-
wave space. At PCB West,
I caught up with Sun-
stone's David Warren, and
we discussed details of this
change and how they plan
to approach such a com-
petitive marketplace.
9
Much Ado About Sales
and Marketing
We at I-Connect007
recently surveyed our
readers to get a bet-
ter idea of what com-
pany leaders thought
about sales and mar-
keting. The results
were informative, at
times surprising, and
even a bit disappointing, especially when some of
the participants reported that they had no sales
and marketing plan at all.
J
T-Tech Releases
IsoPro 4.0
T-Tech Inc., the manu-
facturer of the Quick Cir-
cuit rapid prototyping
system, has launched
IsoPro 4.0. IsoPro 4.0
edits and converts Ger-
ber, Excellon Drill, and
DXF files for use by the
Quick Circuit prototyp-
ing systems in order to fabricate circuit boards.
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