58 The PCB Design Magazine • August 2014
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Joe Fjelstad Remembers
Dieter Bergman
"sometimes, not often enough, a force of nature
graces this planet for a time making it a better
place than it would have been without its pres-
ence. Dieter Bergman was such a force of nature,"
writes Joe Fjelstad.
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Patty Goldman
Reflects on the Life of
Dieter Bergman
goldman comments, "i think it probably never
occurred to any of us who worked with him that
Dieter would ever die. heck, it was only in the past
few years that he even slowed down. so this is sad
news indeed."
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Mentor Graphics Debuts
New xDM Product Suite
Mentor graphics has announced its next offering
in the new Xpedition platform, the Xpedition Data
Management (xDM) product suite. it provides a
flow-wide information hub that manages the PCB
design data that is created, reused, imported, or
released from the Mentor graphics Xpedition en-
terprise platform.
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Zuken Boosts Global
Competencies in
Transportation
zuken plans to extend its global competencies in
transportation and to provide electronic architec-
ture and wiring harness tools to meet the future
challenges of OeMs and their suppliers.
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