Patrick Hope - Electronic Systems Design

ASTER Technologies strengthens Siemens digital thread for optimized PCB manufacturability

January 22, 2026

Siemens EDA is pleased to announce its acquisition of ASTER Technologies, a trusted name within the PCB design industry with more than…

By Patrick Hope

4 MIN READ

What’s new in Z-planner Enterprise 2510

October 27, 2025

The Z-planner Enterprise 2510 release of Z-planner continues to refine the product by focusing on simulation accuracy, overall ease of use and collaboration.

By Patrick Hope

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What’s new in Valor NPI 2510

October 27, 2025

The Valor NPI 2510 release brings additional checks, better manufacturing awareness and exciting visual enhancements that show a significant evolution of the product offering.

By Patrick Hope

3 MIN READ

What’s new in Z-planner Enterprise 2504

August 4, 2025

Z-planner Enterprise 2504 release The latest 2504 release of Z-planner Enterprise delivers powerful updates that streamline stackup planning, improve rigid-flex…

By Patrick Hope

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What’s new in Valor NPI 2504

July 28, 2025

The latest Valor NPI 2504 release delivers powerful enhancements that make your Design for Manufacturing (DFM) analysis faster, more intelligent,…

By Patrick Hope

3 MIN READ

PCB material selection for PCB stackup design

Avoid overspending on stackup materials in your PCBs – 8 high speed materials to consider

May 29, 2025

PCB material discussions are often focused around stackup material selection. These tend to be framed by questions like: ‘We use material ‘x’ for our designs and really like it. What do you think of it?’ This often veils the real question which is: ‘Do you know a good alternative to it?’

By Patrick Hope

10 MIN READ

Progressive verification: A 3-step approach to post-layout signal integrity analysis

May 5, 2025

Progressive verification prioritizes analysis based on their ease of completion. It focuses on getting the simple stuff out of the way as quickly as possible, tackling those big problems that can be identified quickly first and then sifting through progressively finer and more granular issues for better signal integrity.

By Patrick Hope

5 MIN READ

What’s new in Z-planner Enterprise 2409 – stackup design wizard, impedance, compare stackups, DFSI

September 30, 2024

What’s new in version 2024.1 of Z-planner Enterprise including information on the enhanced stackup design wizard, impedance tab, compare stackups, improved import/export, DFSI and more

By Patrick Hope

4 MIN READ

Component Assembly Risk Assessment tool in Valor NPI 2403

July 23, 2024

With a Manufacturing Driven Design, Valor NPI brings specialized component assembly knowledge into and throughout the entire NPI lifecycle. This allows designers and NPI engineers to have immediate and direct access to the knowledge of their specialists throughout the design flow, allowing individual and intelligent DFM reviews to happen at any all points of the process.

By Patrick Hope

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