74 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2018
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Altium Sponsors Seven Teams
at 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop
Pod Competition
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Altium will sponsor seven teams at SpaceX's
upcoming 2018 Hyperloop Pod Competition,
which will take place on Sunday, July 22, 2018 at
SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
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Faster Board Speeds Demand
Constraint-Driven Design
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Constraints become increas-
ingly important as components
and boards
become faster
and more complex. But it is
hard to capture and use/obey
these constraints consistently
throughout the complete design process, bear
-
ing in mind that may contradict each other.
The Post-it Note captures this idea particularly
well. A brief sketch implicitly includes the con
-
straints that the designer is working under, in a
very concise form; however, retaining and using
this information later is extremely difficult.
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Proteus Users Can Access
EMA's Ultra Librarian
14 Million-Part Database
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The Proteus Design Suite is a complete EDA
software solution for professional PCB design,
comprising schematic capture, microcontroller
simulation, and PCB layout. With this latest
update to Ultra Librarian, Proteus users will be
able to export symbols and footprints in the
Proteus format from UltraLibrarian.com or the
Ultra Librarian desktop software.
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Paving the Way for 400Gb
Ethernet and 5G
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This article briefly intro-
duces the 4-level pulse
amplitude modulation
(PAM-4) and its applica-
tion in 400 Gigabit Eth-
ernet (400GbE), to sup-
port the booming data
traffic volume in conjunction with the deploy-
ment of 5G mobile communications.
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