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Altium, valydate Enter
Strategic Partnership
valydateverA has effectively streamlined this
entire process. With verA's integration in Altium
Designer, PCB designers can now automatically
inspect their schematics against a pre-defined
checklist that takes advantage of an intelligent
component library that automatically checks
for thousands of error violations in schematic
designs.
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AnSyS 16.0 Expands
Design Capabilities
ANsys 16.0 delivers major advancements
across the company's entire portfolio, includ-
ing structures, fluids, electronics and systems
engineering solutions—providing engineers
with the ability to validate complete virtual
prototypes.
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Mentor Unveils
HyperLynx Alliance
Co-developed with industry vendors, the hyper-
lynx Alliance virtual labs include the complete
hyperlynx design environment, partner IBIs-AMI
and/or s-parameter electrical models, a reference
design based test case, and a step-by-step instruc-
tion guide.
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Cadence Expands Sigrity
2015 Technology Portfolio
Cadence Design systems has announced an ex-
panded Cadence sigrity technology portfolio with
the sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack and the sig-
rity system explorer, an updated power-aware sys-
tem signal integrity (sI) feature, as well as flexible
purchasing options for PCB and IC package de-
sign and analysis. The sigrity technology portfolio
enables product creation efficiency by increasing
signoff-level PCB extraction accuracy.
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Zuken Expands CADSTAR
Reseller network in Russia
zuken has expanded its CADsTAr reseller network
in russia with the addition of Point. CADsTAr is
zuken's desktop PCB design software for compa-
nies of all sizes, from individual designers to small
and mid-sized design teams and corporations op-
erating across multiple sites.
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PCB Drives EDA Industry's
Revenue growth in q3
The eDA Consortium (eDAC) Market statistics service
(Mss) announced that eDA industry revenue increased
5.7% for Q3 2014 to $1.8 billion, compared to $1.7
billion in Q3 2013. PCB & MCM revenue led the way,
with revenue of $167.4 million for Q3 2014, an in-
crease of 9.7% compared to Q3 2013. The four-quar-
ters moving average for PCB & MCM increased 11.4%.
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