70 The PCB Design Magazine • October 2016
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John Cardone on Designing
Flex for Spacecraft
If you watched footage of the
Mars rover driving all over the
red planet, you're familiar with
some of John Cardone's handi-
work. He's been designing rigid,
flex, and rigid-flex circuitry for
spacecraft since he joined JPL in
the early '80s. I caught up with John recently and
asked him to give us the straight scoop on design-
ing boards for spacecraft.
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SnapEDA Launches InstaPart:
Symbols and Footprints
in 24 Hours
SnapEDA, the In-
ternet's market-
leading electron-
ics design library,
has launched In-
staPart, an on-de-
mand service that
delivers symbols
and footprints to designers' inboxes in less than
24 hours for only $29 per component, keeping
designers focused on innovation, and product de-
velopment on track.
3
Quiet Power:
Evaluating Evaluation Boards
Evaluation boards are very
helpful. Manufacturers of
complex circuits such as
DC-DC converters provide
boards with those circuits
ready to try out, saving us
time and effort. Evaluation
boards are supposed to help
us to understand the capabilities of the device. But
with the many potential user applications, what
should a particular user expect and look for in an
evaluation board? We need to know how to prop-
erly evaluate an evaluation board.
4
EMA Enterprise Integrate
Links PLM and ERP Systems
With OrCAD
EMA Design Automation has just announced EMA
Enterprise Integrate to enable OrCAD customers
to bring products to market faster with a direct
integration between OrCAD data and corporate
PLM and ERP/MRP systems.
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