Artilce of the month: 

Article of the month:
"Preparing for the “Left Shift” In Design for Fabrication Analysis"  by Steve Hughes, discussing the benefits of moving the Design for Fabrication analysis from a post design process into the up front design process.

The March 2006 article of the month is:

Two articles discussing hot PCB design topics:

“High Speed Design: The benefits of Analysis-Driven Routing” produced by Mentor Graphics and available from their web site, is an intense article packed with tips and tricks on how to obtain success with your tough rule based designs the first time.

And “The Benefits of FPGAs: Are they consumed by the obstacles of integrating FPGAs on a PCB?” By Dave Brady & Tom Dewey of Mentor Graphics discusses the move from using ASIC’s to FPGA’s.

pcb-update vol. 40 is now ready for download featuring two exciting articles:

Article of the month:
3 interesting articles about Design For Manufacturing. 

DFM: “What is it and what will it do” an executive brief by Joseph D. Sawicki, Vice President And General Manager of Design-to-Silicon Division at Mentor Graphics. 

Shifting Methods: “Adopting a Design for Manufacture Flow” a technical presentation of ISQED 2004 by John Ferguson, Ph.D. Mentor Graphics. 

DFM: ”Magic Bullet or Marketing Hype” by Joseph D. Sawicki, Vice President And General Manager of Design-to-Silicon Division at Mentor Graphics.

"Signal Integrity in High Speed Electronics" an examen project from ôrebro University by Niklas Carlén
and
"Calculation of PCB Track Impedance" by Andrew J Burkhardt, Christopher S Gregg and J Alan Staniforth

Article of the month:
“Library Management Methodology” written by Jerry Kurtze, Mentor Graphics.

If you are in the process of or want to implement a Component Library Management system in your company, this article will give you valuable information about how to get it right the first time.

"Crosstalk, Part 2, Simulating Crosstalk Effects"
By Douglas Brooks, UltraCAD Inc.

An article explaining all you ever wanted to know about how to handle crosstalk challanges on your PCB-designs.

Adjusting Signal Timing (Part 1)

Required reading for any PCB-designer designing High Speed Digital Designs, written by Douglas Brooks, President of UltraCAD Design, Inc.

PCB Designers Need Fabrication Analysis
by Yan Killy, Senior Application Engineer - Mentor Graphics Corp.

How to get started in HDI with Microvias http://www.mentor.com/techpapers/fulfillment/mentorpaper_13007.pdf

HDI’s Beneficial influence on High-Frequency Signal Integrity http://www.mentor.com/techpapers/fulfillment/mentorpaper_7404.pdf

Both by Happy Holden of Westwood Assosiates Inc.
The articles and more can be found at the Mentor Graphics’ website at: www.mentor.com

http://www.ultracad.com/mentor.htm

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://www.ultracad.com/articles/g_bounce.pdf

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