The Parallel Pain

The Parallel Pain

Parallel busses are a pain to implement.  They really are.  Sure, they are slower than blazing-fast SERDES busses, but they…

Put the Pieces in Place for SERDES Success

Put the Pieces in Place for SERDES Success

Interconnect loss modeling?  Check.  Signal conditioning modeling?  Check.  Ability to simulate multiple S-parameter models for things like connectors and packages…

Know your limits

Know your limits

“A man’s got to know his limitations” … true, and so does a digital bus.  Clint Eastwood’s quote to conclude…

PADS Tips and Tricks – Cross Probing

PADS Tips and Tricks – Cross Probing

This weeks tip comes from Yan Killy, Technical Marketing Engineering, talking about cross probing between your schematic and PADS Layout…

2012 U2U Meetings

2012 U2U Meetings

Mentor is getting ready to kickoff this year’s regional USER2USER meetings – I hope you can find time to attend,…

PADS Tips and Tricks – Mounting Holes

PADS Tips and Tricks – Mounting Holes

Hello, I am starting a new regular topic to this blog – PADS Tips & Tricks.  These will be quick…

Is The Job Market Getting Better?

Is The Job Market Getting Better?

The past few months I’ve visited several customers, and they have all had similar comments – their businesses are looking…

Fabrication and Assembly Analysis?

Fabrication and Assembly Analysis?

Do it right the first time – we all first heard this from our parents as kids, and throughout our…

Gerber to ODB++ – Have You Made the Move?

Gerber to ODB++ – Have You Made the Move?

We’ve all used Gerber, NC drill, and Excel files for years (decades really) to output our fabrication and assembly data…