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Altium's Designer Rev 19.1 Features Stability and Performance Boosts
Altium's latest release of its Altium Designer 19.1 provides a number of enhancements and further improvements to the product's performance and stability, reducing the occurrence of errors and increasing productive design time and efficiency. Along with the new version, the company also released the Altium 365 Viewer, a free online tool that allows anyone to view Altium Designer projects on the web.
Many of Altium Designer's new features Incorporate user feedback from the Altium BugCrunch forum. Altium Designer 19.1 builds on the stability enhancements in previous versions and reflects the company's increasing investment of resources into addressing customer-submitted bugs and ideas, according to Altium. Altium continues to encourage users to submit feedback via the Altium BugCrunch forum.
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Design Environment Accelerates Delivery ofData Flow Processor IP
Cadence Design Systems has announced that NSITEXE deployed the Cadence digital design full flow to accelerate the delivery of its high-efficiency, high-quality data flow processor (DFP) IP for automotive and industrial applications. Using the integrated Cadence digital full flow, starting with the Genus Synthesis Solution, NSITEXE successfully reduced turnaround time by 75% while also improving power by 8.5%, performance by 35% and reducing area by 3.5% when compared with its previous competitive solution.
The Cadence flow deployed at NSITEXE included the Genus Synthesis Solution, Joules RTL Power Solution, Conformal Equivalence Checker, Modus DFT Software Solution and Innovus Implementation System. The tightly integrated flow provided NSITEXE with a common Cadence database and user interface (UI), eliminating the need for data transfer between tools and communication exchanges between multiple engineers.
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Mid-Year Results Show Global Reach for PCB Podcast
PCB Tech Talk, a podcast produced by Mentor, has shared its 2019 1st half regional download results. PCB Tech Talk is a PCB design podcast for designers, engineers and electronics enthusiast. The results show that PCB Tech Talk reaches a worldwide audience with downloads from more than 68 countries. As expected, the United States topped the list for most podcast downloads with 56%.
The complete list of countries where the podcast has been downloaded shows a true global audience. The top 14 include the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, India, South Korea, Denmark, France, Russia, Sweden, Italy and Japan. According to Mentor, the remaining downloads are spread among over 50 other countries. On its most recent episode, the podcast did a recap analysis of Mentor's live webinar "Advanced PCB Layout Techniques" held on June 12th.
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Firms Collaborate on CAD Component Data Intelligence Effort
Zuken has partnered with SiliconExpert, a specialist in electronic component databases and parts information, to deliver critical component information to engineers within their design environment. The new integration enables engineers to make better component selection decisions, resulting in higher quality products and lower costs in less time. Zuken and SiliconExpert have connected the component library to the supply chain through an advanced integration, feeding real-time, accurate component information drawn from 34 million components, straight to the desktop.
SiliconExpert provides dynamic commerce data to complement the CAD library data. With the new integration, Zuken's engineering data management system (DS-CR) uses RESTful APIs to pull data updates directly from SiliconExpert on a user-defined frequency. CONTINUE READING
Industry News & Recent Posts
Telit has announced the ME310G1 (shown) and ME910G1 modules, designed for mass-scale LTE-M and NB-IoT deployments that feature hundreds of thousands or millions of devices. Based on the new Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem and featuring optional 2G fallback, the modules also provide a future-proof foundation for IoT deployments that span legacy networks, 4G and 5G. ... Continue reading →...»
NXP Semiconductors has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver a new Microsoft Azure Sphere certified crossover applications processor, as an extension to NXP's i.MX 8 high-performance applications processor series. The collaboration's goal is to create a secure, ultra-efficient, intelligent embedded processor for edge nodes that seamlessly runs Azure Sphere's security platform while also providing multi-core heterogeneous computing, rich graphics experience and low-power audio processing capabilities. ... Continue reading →...»
Eurotech France, the French subsidiary of the Eurotech Group, has announced that it has been selected by Thales as a supplier of embedded hardware and IoT software for the CAVE project "Automatic Counting of Passengers" of the new Grand Paris Express metro lines 15, 16 and 17. ... Continue reading →...»
Three new maXTouch touchscreen controllers and optimization services are now available from Microchip Technology to address electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) challenges faced by developers of automotive touchscreens. The TD family of touch controllers features a new differential mutual signal acquisition method that significantly increases the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). ... Continue reading →...» |
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