MAY 2019 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 81
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PCB Design Is All in the Family
With Nicole Pacino
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I shared a flight with Nicole
Pacino on the way to Altium
Live in Munich, and she men-
tioned that her father was
speaking at the show. I went
down the list of speakers, and
it turned out that her dad is
Mike Creeden of San Diego PCB. In Germany, I
asked Nicole to tell us about how she got into
this industry, and what we could do to draw
more young people into this career.
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DAIKIN Adopts Mentor's Xpedition
PCB Design Platform for Global
Design and Data Management
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Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced
that DAIKIN, one of the world's leading air
conditioning manufacturers, selected Mentor's
Xpedition printed circuit board (PCB) design
flow software as their global design environ-
ment.
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George Fox University: Teaching
PCB Design to EE Students
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Gary Spivey is director of en-
gineering projects at George
Fox University, a Christian col-
lege in the Pacific Northwest,
and his students learn to de-
sign and fabricate a PCB while
also giving back to the com-
munity. Not surprisingly, these graduates get
snapped up quickly. In this wide-ranging inter-
view, Spivey discusses GFU's engineering cur-
riculum, their cutting-edge lab facilities, and
the need to teach students to think critically.
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SimplifyDA: Time for a New
Autorouter Paradigm?
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At DesignCon, I spoke
with SimplifyDA CEO
Zen Liao and Director
of Sales and Marketing
Dale Hanzelka. Simplify-
DA is putting a new twist
on the old autorouter by utilizing topological
technology. I asked them to discuss their ap-
proach to autorouting, and how they plan to
entice more PCB designers to use routers. Is it
time for a paradigm shift in autorouting?
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The Shaughnessy Report:
The Youth of the Industry
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When was the last time
your company hired
someone straight out
of school, or even un-
der 40? Until recently,
I would have guessed
1985. But there's something happening, and I
hope it's the beginning of a trend. Young peo-
ple are once again entering the PCB design
community workforce, and the overall PCB
manufacturing industry as well.
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EMA Partners with
Berkeley SkyDeck
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EMA Design Automa-
tion has announced a
partnership with Berke-
ley SkyDeck. This part-
nership provides Or-
CAD software to SkyDeck startups for use in
the design and development of printed circuit
board (PCB) electronics within their innova-
tive products.
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Nicole Pacino
Zen Liao & Dale Hanzelka
Gary Spivey
