July 2016 • The PCB Design Magazine 79
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Ucamco Seeks Comments
on Gerber Nested Blocks
Capabilities
Ucamco welcomes
designers' input
on its latest pro-
posal: to extend
the Gerber format with nested blocks capabilities.
The principal aim in doing so is to make panel def-
inition and handling easier and more efficient, and
it is most likely that this development will bring
additional benefits. Before this goes live, the com-
pany asks Gerber users to read the proposed new
draft specification.
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The State of the Electronic
Design Automation Nation
We are the automation
nation. We are the high-
speed demons, the low-
frequency artists, the
mixed-signal designers
that make up the elec-
tronic design automation
industry. We spend most of our working lives be-
hind software, delivered to our fingertips with the
promise of making things easier, faster, better, and
getting us to our deadlines ever faster.
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Rogers' John Coonrod on
Insertion Loss
John Coonrod of Rogers
Corporation gave a keynote
presentation at the recent
Geek-A-Palooza trade show,
concentrating on printed
circuit board fabrication's
influences on insertion loss.
I sat down with John to learn more about his pre-
sentation and what OEMs and designers need to
be aware of to avoid insertion loss.
8
Zuken Launches Latest Version
of E3.series Software
The E3.series 2016 has
been enhanced to offer a
smoother user experience
for today's globally dis-
persed design teams. Users
can work simultaneously on
one sheet and instantly see
in the sheet tree if another user has opened it, as
their user name is visible.
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Tim's Takeaways:
The Basics of Hybrid Design,
Part 3
We are seeing more and
more of our customers ex-
ploring the world of hybrid
design, and we are getting
new customers for whom
hybrid design is their sole
focus. And yet many de-
signers out there (and I
used to be one of them)
have no idea what is meant when people start
talking about hybrid design.
J
ICD Adds Matched Delay
Optimization to Stackup
Planner
In-Circuit Design
Pty Ltd (ICD), Aus-
tralia, developer of
the ICD Stackup
and PDN Planner
software, has re-
leased a Matched
Delay Optimiza-
tion feature for the
Stackup Planner. This allows you to automatically
calculate the appropriate length required to match
the delay exactly.
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