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Altium Designer Provides
Improved Support,
New Features
This update will bring altium users improved Com-
ponent variant Support, which will give them the
ability to design the schematic and PCB for drop-
in replacement and alternative parts. This provides
sizeable productivity gains for product variants,
while also making it easy to source and manage
multiple alternative parts from the supply chain.
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Intercept Intros New RF
Design Flow with Agilent's ABL
intercept Technology, inc., a leader in PCB/hy-
brid/rF electrical engineering applications, has
launched an enhanced bidirectional link between
its Mozaix schematic and Pantheon layout design
applications and agilent's aDS software.
c
IPC Releases Standards
Committee Reports, Part I
These standards committee reports from iPC aPex
exPo 2014 have been compiled to help keep the
industry up to date on committee activities. This is
the first in a series of reports from the association,
which include testing, cleaning and coating, prod-
uct assurance, and PCB design.
d
T-Tech, geek group Partner
on PCB Design, Prototyping
T-Tech, inc. and The geek group have announced
a joint agreement to offer a state-of-the-art solu-
tion and facility for rapid PCB design, verification,
and fabrication. The collaboration will combine T-
Tech's QCJ5 series Quick Circuit System and iso-
Pro Software for PCB prototyping with The geek
group's expertise and grand rapids laboratory.
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