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Electronic Systems Design

PCB Tech Talk Podcast: PCB Industry Design Trends and Challenges

December 22, 2015

Listen in as guest David Wiens and I discuss PCB design industry trends over the years and new trends and challenges...

By John McMillan

Electronic Systems Design

Defining Collaboration between Electrical and Mechanical Domains

December 21, 2015

Modern electro-mechanical designs have many design challenges that cause various obstacles throughout the design process. Typically these challenges can be...

Electronic Systems Design

2015 PADS Blog Highlights

December 18, 2015

2015 was another very busy and exciting year for PADS! Here is a look back at the top three PADS...

By John McMillan

Tessent Solutions

Addressing Moore's Law with the First Law of Real Estate: Location, location, location

December 16, 2015

By Beth Martin with Steve Pateras, Mentor Graphics Mentor’s novel EDT test point technology dramatically reduces ATPG pattern volume

By Tessent Solutions

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

LEF/DEF IO Ring Check Automation

December 15, 2015

By Matthew Hogan, Mentor Graphics Designing today’s complex system-on-chips (SoCs) requires careful consideration when planning input/output (IO) pad rings…

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Correct by Construction and Other Myths

December 08, 2015

By Joseph Davis, Mentor Graphics Is “correct by construction” a myth?

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Tessent Solutions

Cell-aware test can be “Awarding”

December 02, 2015

By Ron Press, Mentor Graphics Inventing Cell-aware ATPG earned Mentor’s Friedrich Hapke the 2015 Bob Madge Innovation Award.

By Tessent Solutions

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Why Do We Need Assembly Design Kits for Packages?

December 01, 2015

By John Ferguson and Tarek Ramadan, Mentor Graphics Why do we need assembly design kits for IC packages?

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Electronic Systems Design

Tired of writing stick it notes and emails to collaborate on your electro-mechanical design?

November 30, 2015

Consumers increasingly require more functionality in their products to meet the demands of increased complexity over multiple design disciplines. In...