The Ulm Engineering Day on 25th October was the starting signal for this year’s round of European Engineering Days. And we also had the honor of hosting the press launch of our latest flagship product, CR-8000. Selected members of the media had the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the architect of the product, Kazuhiro Kariya, [...]
Another Z-DAC comes to a close, and while I’m pleased with how everything went, I’m a bit disappointed that it’s over. Of the many events that I work on throughout the year, this is definitely my favorite, and that’s due to the fact that I have many more opportunities to interact with our customers more [...]
In the last few weeks I’ve been on the road visiting the well-attended Engineering Days in Benelux (Eindhoven), UK (Shropshire) and ZDAC in San Antonio, USA. My colleague Humair Mandavia and I formed a tag-team to introduce the new Power Integrity Advance solution to our customers; with my focus this time on our CADSTAR users. [...]
I recently gave a presentation on Power Integrity analysis at PCB West. The presentation, available below, looks at the increasing challenges with power distribution systems on modern high-speed PCBs and considers: IC input impedance behavior, resonance behavior of power distribution systems (PDS), management of decoupling capacitors and EDA methodology for concurrent power integrity simulation throughout PCB design process.
Last week we concluded our annual Z-DAC User Conference in San Antonio Texas. While this event is always well-received and marvellously interactive between Zuken and our ever-growing family of customers, this year was truly special, as Zuken unveiled the first real paradigm shift in electronic design since those heady days of EDA yore: CR-8000 Design [...]
There was a definite buzz about our unusual choice of venue, RAF Museum Cosford, as delegates registered for the Engineering Day. After all, it’s not every day that you pick up your name badge in the shadow of a Douglas Thor missile, after descending a walkway in line of sight of a suspended Vulcan Bomber. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Did you know you can save fan-outs and escape patterns and reuse them over and over again?
- For the entire design too – so this means that your next design shouldn’t take as long.
Fanning out high pin-count BGAs can be a simple one click operation, and creating escape patterns from the fan-outs can be done automatically as well.
OK, just finished the last length tweaks that the engineer wanted based on the final prototype. Whew, can sit back and breathe a bit now. The design is finally done! Oh…well…not quite. There are four different BOM formats that need to be done. Manufacturing, Test, Purchasing and Documentation each want a different format. Gerbers, a [...]
