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EMA Webinar: Maximize Your Design Productivity in OrCAD X and Allegro X
September 26, 2024 | EMA Design AutomationEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Learn how the extensible environment in Cadence OrCAD X and Allegro X is being used to enhance and customize the PCB design flow in a webinar held by EMA on Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 @ 11am ET.
What You Will Learn:
- See how the powerful SKILL framework in PCB Editor can be used to create countless time-saving routines and utilities.
- Explore how you can leverage pre-build utilities designed to drastically improve your productivity
- Learn how you can speed up tedious yet important tasks like documentation and drafting as well as integrate support for newer technologies like stretch flex and AOI technologies
- Explore around 50 FloWare utilities built to help you get more done faster
Join special guest, Rolf Nick from FlowCAD.
Visit the EMA Acadamy webpage to learn more and register for the event.
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I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week
11/22/2024 | Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007In this week’s roundup, I’m highlighting a variety of articles. We have an interview with Jess Hollenbaugh, a recent graduate working for Polar Instruments. We also have an interview with IPC’s Matt Kelly and Devan Iyer, whose white paper may provide a way forward for companies dealing with complex advanced packages. Our newest columnist Tom Yang describes the U.S. PCB industry from the point of view of a technologist from another country, and Dan Beaulieu has a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s follow-up to The Tipping Point. Finally, we have my review of PCB Carolina, a one-day tabletop show that keeps expanding, much like my waistline after eating their catered food. Enjoy!
Dan's Biz Bookshelf: 'Revenge of the Tipping Point'
11/21/2024 | Dan Beaulieu -- Column: Dan's Biz BookshelfIn Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, Malcolm Gladwell takes readers to his familiar yet groundbreaking territory, examining the forces that shift trends, turn ideas viral, and make or break social phenomena. Gladwell's fresh perspective and sharp analysis will resonate with anyone who enjoyed his previous books, The Tipping Point and Outliers.
PCB Carolina’s Formula: Industry Experts and Catered Food
11/18/2024 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 MagazinePCB Carolina organizers at the Better Boards design bureau seem to have found the perfect formula: Industry experts plus catered food equals a constantly expanding show. This one-day tabletop show has been growing for two decades, and that trendline continued with this year’s event on November 13.
I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week
11/15/2024 | Marcy LaRont, I-Connect007We have quite a mix in this week’s must-reads. The November issue of Design007 Magazine was published, and you don’t want to miss Andy Shaughnessy’s column. This week, we also have a discussion of long-flex PCBs with CEE PCB’s Jerome Larez, and we revisit my forward-looking interview with Dr. Evelyne Parmentier of Dyconex. Jim Will gives us an update on the many things that have transpired in his first five months as executive director at USPAE. Finally, Happy Holden’s next installment of Happy’s Tech Talk looks into the weaknesses of CAD drawings by using a famous Escher print as an example. Happy is definitely one of a kind.
Disruptive Innovation and Generative AI Inventor, Kevin Surace, to Keynote IPC APEX EXPO 2025
11/15/2024 | IPCEach year, IPC APEX EXPO features industry’s most dynamic, innovative minds to deliver keynote presentations that are both educational and entertaining. IPC APEX EXPO 2025 will feature Kevin Surace, an internationally renowned futurist and generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovator.