Tag Archives: Zuken

Remembering Finch

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Mike

Zuken has compiled a number of touching sentiments from friends of the late Alan Finch, credited with developing the first shape-based autorouter. Finch, of course, wrote the landmark paper that followed up his Racal-Redac colleague Ulrich Lauther, who conceived a … Continue reading →

Posted in Laying It Out | Tagged Alan Finch, Autorouting, Pete Waddell, Racal-Redac, UP Media, Zuken | Leave a comment

Talking Data Transfer at ZDAC

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Mike

I had the great pleasure of attending Zuken’s ZDAC users group meeting earlier this month in San Antonio at the invitation of Steve Chidester, head of product marketing, and Amy Clements, marketing/sales manager. Steve and Amy had asked me to … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Wires | Tagged Amy Clements, CAD, data transfer, EDA, IPC-2581, RIM, Rockwell Collins, Steve Chidester, ZDAC, Zuken | Leave a comment

Making the Rounds

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Mike

We will be at several events over the next six weeks. On Thursday, senior editor Chelsey Drysdale will attend IMAPS’ annual symposium in Long Beach, CA. There’s a number of EMS companies focused on medical electronics exhibiting and it will … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Wires | Tagged Chelsey Drysdale, IMAPS, Productronica, SMTA, SMTAI, Sue Mucha, ZDAC, Zuken | Leave a comment

Data Transfer in the News

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Mike

A couple new articles are out on the IPC-2581 and ODB++ data transfer formats. On Oct. 2, longtime EDA journalist Richard Goering provided a well-written writeup on the “lively panel discussion” (“Data Transfer in the 21st Century”) we held during … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Wires | Tagged Cadence, data transfer, EDN, IPC-2581, ODB++, Richard Goering, Zuken | 4 Comments

The Non-Mentor Post

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Mike

Taking a break from the ongoing tennis match between one major CAD company and its, shall we say, less-than-pleased biggest shareholder, there’s been some interesting developments elsewhere this week. As noted yesterday, Altium is packing up its HQ, R&D and … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Wires | Tagged Altium, CAD, China, Fujitsu, Mentor Graphics, signal integrity, Zuken | Leave a comment

On Deals Never Done

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Mike

About three years ago, Cadence made a play for EDA competitor Mentor Graphics, an offer the latter never seriously considered. That move, coupled with sharply falling revenues, cost then Cadence CEO Mike Fister his job. On Friday, the San Jose … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Wires | Tagged Cadence, EDA, Lip-Bu Tan, Mentor Graphics, Zuken | Leave a comment

Zuken Speaks on PCB West

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Mike

Zuken applications engineer Griff Derryberry has posted a nice writeup on PCB West. Want an exhibitor’s perspective? Click the link.

Posted in Hot Wires | Tagged PCB West, Zuken | Leave a comment