PCB Systems
PCB Technology Leadership Through Innovation
PCB Systems Design Solutions
With each technological advance in the electronics industry, PCBs grow increasingly complex and challenging to design. Add globally dispersed design and manufacturing teams to the mix, and the collaboration hurdles make the project difficult at best. PCB Systems Design solutions from Mentor Graphic address these challenges by helping companies meet market demands, facilitate global collaboration, accelerate time-to-market, increase profit margins, and optimize / improve PCB reliability.
FEATURED ON-DEMAND WEB SEMINARS
Featured PCB Systems Techpubs
PADS Integrated Solutions
In striving to meet the goal of delivering high-quality, reliable products with increasing capabilities, today's electronics design companies face many challenges. These challenges include decreasing form-fit factors, timely deployment on aggressive release schedules, and stiff requirements to reduce product development and manufacturing costs.
This paper presents a technical look at how a proven, easy-to-use toolset can meet these challenges by ensuring smooth, accurate movement of design information from concept through build.
The Role of DMS in the PLIM Landscape
RoHS - Impact on Electronic Development
By July 1, 2006, all nations that belong to the EU must enact local laws to enforce the realization of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances initiative (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment) of the EU that bans, to a certain degree, several hazardous substances from electric and electronic products in order to enable the recycling of this equipment.
With the realization of these actions for environmental protection, the EU has taken a leadership role in the world. But this is just the beginning. There are clear indications that the USA, China and Japan are also working on similar initiatives. But the other areas are far behind the EU in terms of realization because no local or national laws support these initiatives. These other initiatives are not necessarily identical to the restrictions in the EU defined by 'RoHS' and 'WEEE' and it is not clear whether the restrictions in the EU are never going to change in the coming years. Additional hazardous substances could be added to the catalog in future or the defined maximum values could change over time.
This means that companies which plan to introduce measures or solutions to the manufacturing of RoHS compliant products that these measure or solutions need to be flexible, expandable and displayed for future needs.
News and Related Articles
- Mentor Graphics Collaborates with Lake Washington Technical College to Open PCB Design LaboratoryNov 12, 2008
- Mentor Graphics and PTC Deliver Industry’s First Bi-Directional ECAD–MCAD Collaboration CapabilitySep 18, 2008
- Mentor Graphics Publishes New Technology Book On BGA Routing by Charles Pfeil Jun 26, 2008
