Sandy Jones

CR-5000 R14 - The thrill of a new release...

As a former PCB designer I always looked forward to the next release of the software that I was designing with. Like a kid unwrapping a gift, I would open up the What’s New HTML file and read through all the amazing new goodies designed to make my job that much easier. To this day, as an AE for Zuken, I still have that childlike spirit when I get my first glimpse of what’s new in CR-5000 and this year was no exception when I checked out Revision 14…

Come for the conference, stay for the CR-5000 training...

What do you get, when you combine recycling with a batch of software programs?  Post-Z-DAC training classes of course!  This year we have created two, half-day classes that are chock full of information.  So come join us for the conference and stay for the training. We’ll begin the day with “Re-Cycle, Re-Use, Re-Invent“.  That’s right, [...]

CR-5000 Tips and Tricks Revealed at Z-DAC 2011

It has become a time-honored tradition for me to do the CR-5000 Tips and Tricks session at Z-DAC each year.  The baton was passed to me to become the head master for this session back in 2007.  I guess that was the year that “The Secret” was revealed and everyone discovered just how much of [...]

E³.series Training goes On-line with E³.schematic Course Now Available

At the end of my last post I mentioned that we’d begun work on our next e-Training project, E³.series Schematic.  The first time around, I was well-versed in Design Gateway, so I was my own technical expert.  Now, E³.series is a tool I’d never even installed much less understood its function and purpose.  So I had to [...]

The road to self-paced, self-teach on-line training...

As a member of the technical community for the past 25 years, software training has traditionally been a face to face experience.  And – I’ve been quite a proponent for face to face training, since this has always been my mode of learning and of course since my primary job function is to deliver training [...]