64 The PCB Design Magazine • February 2017
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Help Wanted! Our 2017
Industry Hiring Survey
This month we conducted an
industry survey on plans for
hiring during the year. In-
cluded here is a summary
of the results. We started
by simply asking, "Do you
plan to hire additional peo-
ple this year?" More than half
of the respondents answered yes
while about a third said no—which we take as an
optimistic sign that our industry plans to expand
in 2017.
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Mentor Graphics CEO
Walden C. Rhines Named
IEEE Fellow
Mentor Graphics Chairman
and CEO Dr. Walden C. Rhines
has been named a Fellow of
the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Rhines is being recognized
for leadership and technology
innovation in integrated circuit
design and automation.
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True DFM: Taking Control
of Your EDA Tool
We PCB designers are doing
some truly great things with
our layout tools. But we must
remember that these tools
are so powerful that they will
sometimes allow us to design
things that can't be manufac-
tured! We must collaborate
with our fabricator and assem-
bly brethren and embrace the best DFM practices,
or face the consequences downstream.
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Ucamco Releases
Integr8tor v2016.12
Ucamco has launched
the v2016.12 main-
tenance release of
Integr8tor. This re-
lease features impor-
tant extensions and
enhancements to existing functionality and ad-
dresses a number of software inconsistencies that
were reported by our Integr8tor user base.
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