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OMRON Releases the VT-RNS High Density PCB Inspection Equipment Series
OMRON Corporation, a global leader in automation, sensing and control technology has announced the release of the VT-RNS High Density PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Inspection Equipment series. Based on Omron's cutting-edge "sensing & control" and "inspection" technologies, the new VT-RNS series couples these technologies with added functionality effective to the digital consumer-electronics industry.

Leading PCB Makers Beef Up Production Lines Of Boards For Mobile Phones
In line with an increasing demand from major mobile phone manufacturers, leading printed circuit board (PCB) makers, including Samsung Electro-mechanics and LG Electronics, began installing additional production lines of build-up boards for mobile phones.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers releases ultra-small form factor ESPRIMO C5900
With a volume of only eight litres, the ultra-small form factor ESPRIMO C5900 is not only the most compact in its class, it also offers extensive security options as well as an integrated power supply.

Accelerated Technology’s Nucleus IPsec Encrypts and Safeguards Sensitive Data Sent Over the Internet
Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics division (Nasdaq: MENT), today announced the Nucleus® Internet protocol security (IPsec) software, an embedded solution that provides data authentication and encryption over the Internet at the IP level.

California Micro Devices Delivers the Smallest Packaged EMI Filters for Wireless Handsets
California Micro Devices today introduced a new family of packaged Centurion ASIP (Application Specific Integrated Passive) EMI (electromagnetic interference) filter arrays that feature superior EMI filtering performance combined with robust ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection in the most compact package available for use in mobile handsets

UP Media Group Announces Conference Program for PCB East 2005
The 10th anniversary PCB Design Conference East is scheduled for October 10-14, 2005, at the Expo Center of New Hampshire in Manchester, NH. PCB East 2005 is the premier East Coast conference and exhibtion for printed circuit board (PCB) engineering, design and manufacture professionals.

TriQuint Semiconductor Introduces Two Power Amplifiers for 3.5 GHz WiMAX and BWA Transmit Applications
The two new amplifiers provide a variety of performance advantages, including instantaneous bandwidth of 200 MHz across any segment of the 3.3 to 3.9 GHz band with simple PCB layout and two external components. While designed to support the stringent linearity requirements of multi-carrier applications, both devices are also capable of delivering high saturated power and PAE. The SMT-style package incorporates internal partial matching to simplify PCB design and a high thermal conductivity copper alloy base to maximize heat removal from the amplifier.

Demand for handset-use PCBs to pick up in the second half
As inventories decrease in the second quarter, Taiwan PCB makers -- Compeq Mfg Co. Ltd, Unitech Printed Circuit Board Corp. and Wus Printed Circuit Co. Ltd -- are optimistic that demands will increase in the second half of the year.

Panasonic Communications Selects Mentor Graphics Catapult C Synthesis for Network Terminal Equipment Applications
Panasonic Communications designs application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) used in their voice, data and video communication systems. The company typically implements its algorithmic designs in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype for real-time performance and functional validation before retargeting the design to an ASIC for production.

Solectron Expands New Product Introduction and Low-Volume, High-Mix Capabilities to New England Region
Solectron Corporation (NYSE:SLR), a leading provider of electronics manufacturing and integrated supply chain services, today announced that through its FinePitch Technology business, which focuses on serving the needs of emerging companies, it is expanding its new product introduction (NPI) and low-volume, high-mix capabilities (LVHM) in the Boston area.

CirTran-Asia -- From Start-Up to Star in a Year; $60 Million in New Business Booked by CirTran Subsidiary
Founded in 1993, CirTran Corporation is a premier international full-service contract manufacturer of low to mid size volume contracts for printed circuit board assemblies, cables and harnesses to the most exacting specifications.

Eagleware Announces Shipment of GENESYS 2004
This release includes many new features such as new synthesis topologies for filters and oscillators, LDMOS models, RF architecture simulation enhancements, and integrated component libraries. In addition, the core design environment has been enhanced with enterprise-level features, including an XML library manager, Visual Basic scripting, rich text editing, graph annotations, an Agilent ADS interface, and enhanced language support of Simplified Chinese.

Embedded's New Star - Linux operating system
The fire is real, and it's spreading across the embedded industry in a way that even the most feverish Linux supporters didn't foresee a few years ago. The biggest mainstream semiconductor manufacturers have ported the upstart operating system to their hardware and product designers around the world are considering it for future projects.

Murata Releases Component Library for Nexxim, Targeting High-Performance RF and Multi-Gigabit PCB Designs
Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and Ansoft Corporation (NASDAQ:ANST) have released a new device library for Ansoft's Nexxim based on Murata's discrete Capacitor/Coil Inductor products. Engineers designing electronic equipment, such as Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), car navigation systems, and cellular base stations, can now incorporate the accurate electrical responses and mechanical layout features for these high-performance parts within their large-scale PCB analysis.

VSI Alliance Releases New Version of Quality IP Metric
Cadence Design Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, LSI Logic, Philips and STMicroelectronics will participate in the beta testing of 2.0 and, going forward, will require that IP vendors provide scores when delivering new IP cores. Mentor Graphics and Chipidea, IP vendors, have been providing scores to their customers based on the Alpha version of QIP Metric.

E Ink and Toppan Announce Manufacturing and Marketing Agreement for Large Area Electronic Paper Displays
In contrast to traditional display technologies on the market today, E Ink¡¦s reflective paper-like display technology enables displays that are extremely easy-to-read at virtually any angle and under any lighting condition - including direct sunlight. Ultra-low power consumption and low heat dissipation have the potential to eliminate the need for noisy, power consuming fans; thus making quiet, battery-operation possible for certain applications

PCB West Draws 1400, Good Reviews
PCB Design Conference West is North America's largest annual design-oriented conference and exhibition for printed circuit board engineering, design and manufacture.

Silicon-Based Materials suit optical interconnect applications
Optical Coupling Gel, OE-4000 consists of 2-part, high-purity, transparent silicone gel used for refractive index matching for silica-to-fiber and other optical junctions. One-part transparent silicone elastomer, OE-4100 provides refractive index shifting potential for planar silica-on-silicon optical components

Oki Develops Analog Blocks Five Times Faster with Cadence Technology
Since adopting Cadence's NeoCircuit technology in December 2003, Oki has been using it to design analog circuits for personal mobile market-use LSIs (large scale integrated circuits), sound generator LSIs, memory LSIs including P2ROM(TM), DRAM and FeRAM, Flat Panel Display (FPD) Driver LSIs for TFT-LCD and OLED, etc.

Newport Corporation to Acquire Spectra-Physics, the Optical Technologies Business of Thermo Electron Corporation
This unique combination brings together what we believe are the technology leader in lasers and the technology leader in photonics instrumentation, motion control and automation to create a photonics industry powerhouse.

DuPont Electronic Technologies Exhibits New DuPont™ Riston® and Embedded Passives Technology Offerings at the Electronic Circuits World Convention & European Printed Circuit Board Convention
New offerings include DuPont™ Riston® PlateMaster PM200 dry film photoresist for high yield and increased productivity in plating, and two Riston® Special FX films for specialty applications.

KIC Announces Aegis Integration of Thermal Process Management System
KIC, the leader of thermal process development and control products, and winner of multiple VISION awards, announces that Aegis Industrial Software, a leader in manufacturing information management systems for global electronics assemblers, has integrated CAMx to KIC's 24/7 thermal process management system, which is a vital technology for lead-free process control.

FocalSpot Announces New VIP Plus X-Ray Image Processor For Image Enhancement and Failure Analysis
FocalSpot created VIP Plus as a x-ray diagnostic tool for their Verifier Series of X-Ray Inspection Solutions and as a standalone upgrade for virtually any X-Ray Inspection System used for electronics manufacturing quality assurance.

Vanguard EMS Selects RD-500 for Lead-Free Rework
Designed for both lead free and standard solder, the system is a vision based semi-automated reflow, removal and placement rework station for all printed circuit assemblies, SMD devices and connectors.

The "greening" of the supply chain - Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
The lead-free solders EMS companies use to attach components to a printed circuit board usually melt at higher temperatures than solders containing lead.

Sanmina-SCI's Guadalajara Facility Receives Key Automotive Certification
Sanmina-SCI's Automotive Division leverages more than 20 years of experience working with leading automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), providing design, engineering, printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication and assembly, cables, sheet metal and full-system assembly for a range of cutting-edge automotive products as diverse as HVAC components, suspension, seating frames and safety systems.

Pulse Introduces 2005 Power Magnetics Catalog
The catalog contains a complete parts index and datasheets for each part. Over 95 percent of the components listed in Pulse's Power Magnetics Catalog are currently RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) compliant. Conversion is in process for the remaining part numbers. RoHS compliant products are indicated in the catalog by an RoHS stamp on the data sheet and an NL suffix at the end of the product part number.

Altium Releases Service Pack 2 for P-CAD(R) 2004
Altium Limited (ASX: ALU), a leading developer of Windows-based electronics design software, today announced the release of Service Pack 2 for P-CAD® 2004, Altium's PCB design system for layout professionals.

EMA Design Automation Announces RoHS Compliance Service and Design Methodology; Three Levels of Service Target RoHS Compliance in New and Legacy Designs
The EMA design methodology incorporates data from the PartMiner(R) CAPS(TM) database into the schematic design tool, OrCAD(R) Capture(R) CIS. The Component Information System (CIS) database contains component data, including RoHS data, showing both high-level compliance indications and detailed parametric values. This allows an engineer to see part information and RoHS compliance data while selecting parts in the schematic tool.

A guide to better EMC for PCB design
Complicated RF and microwave theory is useful for designing radio equipment, but digital designers aim to avoid turning circuits into radios without the benefit of an RF engineering degree. In digital design, the number of possible coupling routes is simply too large to deal with using analysis alone, because digital PCBs are not designed as closed RF systems.

ZMD Sensor Signal Conditioning Device Offers Speed and Easy PC-Controlled Configuration
The device is ideal in a variety of products and systems, such as automobiles, global navigation systems, handheld data loggers, medical products, personal digital assistants, and a variety of commercial and consumer applications.

GiDEL Joins Mentor Graphics OpenDoor Program, Integrates Mentor's Advanced Synthesis Solutions with Its High-End FPGA Platforms
The partnership facilitates the integration of Mentor Graphics advanced synthesis and verification solutions, including the Precision(R) Synthesis and ModelSim(R) tools, with GiDEL's PROC development systems, to immediately benefit design teams developing system-level applications running at hardware speed on FPGAs.

Innovation rewarded
The seed for the Awards program was planted at the previous TFC in 2004, when we at Elec tronics News were considering how we could help the SA-based Electronics Industry Association (EIA) and Australian Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers Association (AEEMA) in their mission to promote electronics to a wider audience.

LSI Logic Offers Unprecedented System Integration Within Smallest Package Form Factor
Packages produced in this cost-effective, high-performance technology are completely manufactured and tested at the wafer level and then mounted directly onto printed circuit boards or on discrete package substrates.

Mentor Graphics Attacks Verification Bottlenecks With New Questa Verification Products
Over the last two years, several new languages targeted at verification have been standardized. The availability of these languages, SystemVerilog, SystemC and PSL, enables design teams to now move to new methodologies like CDV, ABV or TLM without the risk of getting stuck with proprietary languages or solutions.

Analog Devices Packs Improved OP07 Performance Into Tiny Package, Reducing Board Space By 75%
The increased accuracy, small package size and lower power consumption make the AD8677 ideal for precision thermal and current sensing and precision filtering applications that require the high performance of an op amp like the OP07, but also need a reduction in system size.

Nexlogic Technologies Brings Up a New Assembly Line to Increase Capacity and Adds a New Feature: “Lead-Free” Assembly Capabilities
Pb-free manufacturing creates new issues and impacts PCB design, fabrication and assembly. Nexlogic knows how to resolve the issues and reduce the impact on design layout, fabrication and especially assembly, such as high temperature range, PCB surface finishes, and reflow ovens, to mention a few

Altium Unifies Electronic Product Development Under Altium Designer
Altium Designer provides a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities necessary for complete electronic product development. Altium Designer integrates board- and FPGA-level system design, embedded software development for FPGA-based processors, and PCB layout, editing and manufacturing within a single design environment.

FishTail Joins Mentor Graphics' OpenDoor Program and the ModelSim Value Added Partnership Program; Focus interfaces with ModelSim and 0-In Products
Focus automatically generates timing exceptions from synthesizable RTL. In addition, Focus also generates assertions that justify why a false-path or multi-cycle path definition is correct. These assertions may be generated for the timing exceptions produced by Focus, as well as for user-specified timing exceptions.

OCP-IP Announces Availability of Mentor Graphics CheckerWare Library of Verification IP
The CheckerWare monitor is an advanced verification technology that can be used to verify OCP during simulation and formal functional verification. Additionally, the monitor collects detailed coverage information, such as protocol interface behaviors of industry standard interfaces, to identify coverage weaknesses in the user's verification scheme.

Mentor Graphics’ Integrated Constraint Entry System Facilitates High-Productivity Team Design of PCB Systems
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT), the market leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design software, today announced it has released its next-generation constraint editor system (CES) into its Expedition™ Series and Board Station® RE PCB design flows.

Sirenza Microdevices Announces Volume Shipments of Direct Quadrature Modulators for a Major European Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
Direct conversion architectures allow designers to simplify system-level designs, reduce part counts, and minimize printed circuit board space. These advantages enhance the ability of OEMs to reduce costs and improve time to market.

Compact Model Council Members Elect HiSIM-RF Surface Potential SPICE Model for Standardization
Compact models are mathematical descriptions (equations) of semiconductor devices used by analog circuit simulators. Integrated circuit designers and printed circuit board designers use circuit simulators to accurately predict the behavior of electronic devices before the devices are manufactured.

Intersil's New Real Time Clock Features High Accuracy and Ultra-Low-Power Consumption along with InterSeal Battery Saver Technology
The ISL1208 device is a low power real time clock with timing and crystal compensation, clock/calendar, power fail indicator, periodic or polled alarm, intelligent battery backup switching and battery-backed user SRAM.

IBSystems, Inc. Launches Its iCAD Network Delivering Broad-based Resources to the CAD Industry and New Advertising Opportunities to Software and Hardware Manufacturers
The Network meets the needs of both mechanical and architectural engineers and managers by providing a cohesive interlocked group of targeted resources that deliver the latest news, jobs, technical information, and free productivity software.

Mentor Graphics and LSI Logic Announce Seamless Product Support for ZSP Processor Cores
Utilizing the Seamless PSPs with the ZSP cores, designers have a platform in which to concurrently develop hardware and software in complex SoCs, saving time and money, and validating that hardware and software are synchronized before prototypes are manufactured.

Nano Superlattice Technology Announces Completion of Nano-coating Mass Production Machinery
Nano Superlattice Technology Inc. (hereinafter as "Nano") (OTC Bulletin Board: NSLT - News), a company engaged in the coating of tools and components with nano structured PVD coatings for the semiconductor, precision machinery and telecommunication industries, announced today the completion of the installation of Nano's newest set of production machinery

Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. Q1 Sales Up 64%, Net Income Up 87%
Through our electronics manufacturing services operations, we manufacture electronic components and sub-assemblies, including LCD panels, LCD modules, RF modules, FPC sub-assemblies and image sensors modules. These components are used in numerous electronic products, including cellular phones, laptop computers, digital cameras, copiers, fax machines, electronic toys, handheld video game devices and microwave ovens. We also manufacture finished products, including cellular phones, palm-sized PCs, personal digital assistants, electronic dictionaries, calculators, digital camera accessories and Bluetooth(TM) wireless headset accessory for use with cellular phones.

Mentor Graphics Extends Catapult C Synthesis Product; Enables 20X to 100X Faster Verification with SystemC
Hardware designers can then employ Mentor's scalable verification platform to rapidly verify generated models. The interface of the SystemC model has the same behavior as the RTL generated by Catapult C Synthesis, but is optimized to simulate 20-100X faster. Designers can, therefore, more rapidly explore and verify architectural tradeoffs and achieve faster verification of their optimized designs.

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe and N6600GT
After Intel released its 9xx-series chipsets in 2004, the AMD64 platform fell behind a little when it came to chipset features. Intel had the lead on PCI Express support and native DDR2 memory, leaving AMD customers, many of them performance-hungry early adopters, longing for chipset updates.

Sparton Corporation Has Been Named a 2004 Supply & Design Chain Champion
Sparton Corporation was one of five companies to receive this award. Awarded by the editors of Electronics Supply & Manufacturing magazine, Sparton was selected for its continuous advancement of the highest standards for supply and design chain management.

3D-CAD for Tool-less Serial Manufacturing of 3D Micro-Components
The intuitive operation of the 3D-CAD software accelerates collaboration with both the team and the customer, thus enabling rapid market implementation and end-user execution of most customer requests. Also, data from circuitry layouts (OrCAD) can be directly integrated, and Click and Quote features enable pricing inquiries and order placement from any PC, anywhere in the world, via online CAD data transfer.

PLX Announces New Development Tools for PCI Express Switches
The new RDKs include the PEX 8532 and PEX 8516 devices, along with the documentation that enables hardware designers to get up and running with hardware reference design schematics, a bill of materials, OrCAD symbols, and Gerber. Additionally, they can easily tailor either kit's reference design, bill of materials and design guidelines included to quickly design their system.

Mentor Graphics Joins CE-ATA Group and Begins Storage IP Development Based on New 1.0 Specification
Based on its leadership in storage connectivity with offerings for both parallel and serial ATA technologies, Mentor Graphics will take an active role in the CE-ATA organization by defining the next level and range of features that complement and fully utilize the capabilities of the initial interface specification.

New Multicap 8 Schematic Capture
Electronics Workbench, a National Instruments company (Nasdaq: NATI), announces Multicap 8 with enhanced schematic capture functionality. With its built-in intelligence, Multicap reduces schematic creation time and adds support for even more complex designs.

TXP-TEXAS PROTOTYPES, INC. Named a Supply & Design Chain Champion by Electronics Supply & Manufacturing Magazine
Five companies were selected as 2004 Supply & Design Chain Champions: Cisco, EMC, NEC, Sparton, and Texas Prototypes. The winners were nominated by the readers and selected as "champions" by the editors of "Electronics Supply & Manufacturing."

Altium Chooses Verific's HDL Component Software for Verilog Support to Nexar; Verific HDL Component Software Enhance FPGA Digital Design System
Founded in 1985, Altium released the world's first Microsoft Windows-based printed circuit board design tool in 1991 and continues to provide advanced, easy-to-use and affordable software design tools to electronics engineers, designers, and developers worldwide.

UGS Announces Tecnomatix Printed Circuit Board and Final Assembly Production Execution Solution
UGS Corp., a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today launched Service Pack 3 of Tecnomatix(TM) eM-Execution(TM) 3.0 software -- the proven, comprehensive Manufacturing Execution System (MES) custom designed for the electronics industry supporting both Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Final Assembly.

Board-test Innovations Front and Center at APEX
Board test was a key focus at this year’s APEX show, held February 22-24 in Anaheim, CA, as Agilent Technologies debuted its Medalist i5000 in-circuit test system

Printed Circuit Board and Schematic Design Compare Software for OrCAD, Allegro, Mentor and other EDA Tools Now Available in Switzerland
DOCTAR works with design files from Allegro, Cadence, GenCAD, Mentor, Orcad, P-CAD, PADS, PowerPCB, and Viewlogic. Reports are generated in HTML and Excel formats with high-level summaries and detailed reporting to component/net/testpoint levels.

New Nitrogen UltraFill Nozzles from Speedline Technologies Delivers Solution to Overcome Challenges of Lead-Free Soldering
Speedline Technologies has introduced its new UltraFill™ Lead-Free Nozzles – featuring an innovative technology and design to enable electronic manufacturers to overcome a variety of process challenges inherent in lead-free wave soldering.

Designers Enjoy New Freedoms with ZiLOG's New Easy to Use 8-pin Addition to Award-Winning Z8 Encore! XP(R) MCU Family
The new device, nicknamed the "tiny dynamo" by ZiLOG insiders, packs all the punch of its larger XP family members, but uses 80 percent less space on the printed circuit board (PCB).

Sanmina-SCI to Showcase PCB and Backplane Technologies at APEX
Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, today announced that it will exhibit new printed circuit board (PCB) and backplane technology development at the APEX, IPC Printed Circuits Expo and IPC Designers Council Summit

Guilt admitted in water-pollution case
A Mira Mesa circuit board company and one of its owners pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to knowingly allowing polluted wastewater to flow into the San Diego sewage system.

Programmable power manager handles lower voltages
The Power1208P1 device, like its predecessor the Power1208, provides a complete solution for printed circuit board (PCB) power sequencing and management through an optimised set of programmable digital and analogue functions.

New Challenges in Design
You can put the IC and package together and do a co-simulation and co-design. That’s another way. In various applications, you need simplification at different levels. For example, in the board design, you don’t need the entire chip to model it.

Zuken Joins Open Core Protocol International Partnership -- OCP-IP
Utilizing OCP technology allows Zuken's customers to reduce design times, risks and costs and quickly introduce highly competitive products. Zuken's customers include the world's top electronics manufacturers that serve markets as diverse as computing, networking, image processing, and semiconductor.

Mentor Graphics’ Integrated Constraint Entry System Facilitates High-Productivity Team Design of PCB Systems
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT), the market leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design software, today announced it has released its next-generation constraint editor system (CES) into its Expedition™ Series and Board Station® RE PCB design flows.

PCB surface finish options for lead-free manufacturing
Here we focus on some of the changes that are being made to surface finishes on printed circuit boards (PCBs) to make them compatible with lead-free, and look at their pros and cons. For years, hot-air-solder leveling (HASL) was accepted as the most common and effective surface finish used to protect copper circuitry on PCBs.

Winland Electronics, Inc. Announces Initiative to Enhance Engineering Services Offering
Winland's product development offering includes program management, analog circuit design, digital circuit design, printed circuit board design and embedded software design.

ITT Industries, Cannon’s New Board/Harness Connector System Saves Cost in Demanding Applications
ITT Industries, Cannon’s new harness to PCB connector system cuts installed cost and saves board space versus conventional pin and socket designs.

North American PCB Orders Fall
For the first time since April 2003, the North American PCB industry’s book-to-bill ratio fell below parity to 0.96 for November, according to electronics industry organization IPC.

iNEMI Premieres Latest Roadmap at IPC Printed Circuit Expo/APEX/Designers Summit
This latest edition of the iNEMI roadmap is the most extensive to date, with 26 chapters that cover seven product sectors and 19 technology, infrastructure and business practice areas. New this year are chapters on SiP, medical products, netcomm products (networking, datacom and telecom) and sensors.

Collaborative Design
In an environment where products are embraced at breakneck speed, making it to market first can mean the difference between leading the pack, slugging it out later on pricing or -- worse -- being ignored completely. In this three part series, Electronic News addresses collaborative design and its place in the industry.

Regal Electronics Announces Its Entire Line of PCB Mount Mini-din Connectors Will Now Have Available Shielding and Gaskets for EMI/RFI Protection
The conductive gasket on the 5145P3 Series provides excellent conducted and radiated (EMI/RFI) noise attenuation over shielded versions and is fully interchangeable with both shielded and unshielded versions

STMicroelectronics Delivers Single-Chip VGA Camera for High-Volume Mobile Applications
The complete VGA (640 x 480-pixel) camera subsystem with miserly power consumption inside an ultra-small 7 x 7 x 4.5-mm package targets high-volume mobile platforms, such as entry-level mobile phones, PDAs, and videophones.

Advanced Circuits Named One of Colorado's Fastest-Growing Technology Companies
Advanced Circuits, the only quick-turn printed circuit board manufacturer with easy, real-time customer service, has been named to Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for the sixth consecutive year

Soft touch connectorless probing technology
Now engineers in the computer, semiconductor and communications industries can benefit from connectorless probing without having to choose between competing connectorless probe interfaces.

2004 the rebound year for Vision Circuits
Cautious optimism and a growing outsourcing trend is paying off for a local circuit board designer, with contracts having almost tripled in the first nine months of this year. Vision Circuits, which calls itself Canada's largest dedicated printed circuit board layout service firm, said Thursday its contract orders are up 188 per cent in the first nine months

Omron Releases the VT-RNS High Density PCB Inspection Equipment Series
OMRON Corporation, a global leader in automation, sensing and control technology has announced the release of the VT-RNS High Density PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Inspection Equipment series.

Nortech Systems Hires National Account Manager; Addition of Patrick Beadles Advances Corporate Strategy
Nortech Systems, Inc. based in Wayzata, Minnesota., is a full-service electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider of wire and cable assemblies, printed circuit board assemblies, higher-level assemblies and box builds for a wide range of industries.

OCZ Technology Group, Inphi Corporation Introduce Zero-Buffer DDR Technology For Unbuffered Memory Modules
Using discreet zero-delay clock buffers, ZB-DDR technology combines server class memory with the low latency of unbuffered modules, resulting in better data integrity, lower noise, and lower susceptibility to interference over a wider frequency spectrum while fully compatible with all current motherboards.

New Scalable OrCAD Technology from Cadence Further Tightens PCB Design Process
OrCAD PCB Designer and OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice are full-featured suites with time-proven and new OrCAD technology. Both feature the new OrCAD PCB Editor, a constraint-driven PCB layout editing tool derived from the Cadence Allegro PCB editor.

SchmartBOARD Announces October 2004 Contest Winners
SchmartBOARD has started a contest to help introduce Electronic Circuit Building Blocks. Schmartboards are targeted towards engineers who would like to avoid having to do multiple revisions on PCB layouts wire-wrap board, proto-board and breadboard limitations.

Verifer HR High-Resolution X-Ray Inspection Solution Under $60K
FocalSpot, Inc (www.focalspot.com), a provider of advanced BGA/SMT inspection and rework solutions to the SMT electronic manufacturers industry, today announced the their newest innovation, the Verifer-HR, FSX-090 a high-resolution x-ray system that handles large bare or populated PCB assemblies up to 16 x 18 or component packages down to 0201.

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