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BTU International Inc. (North Billerica, MA), a supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment for semiconductor packaging, surface-mount and advanced materials processing, has announced the appointment of Tom Nash as vice president of marketing.
Nash joins the company as a member of the senior management team, reporting directly to Mark R. Rosenzweig, president and chief executive of BTU International. Nash will oversee all facets of corporate marketing, working closely with the executive team on corporate strategy as the company continues to expand its product and customer base.
"We are extremely pleased that Tom has joined our team," said Rosenzweig. "He brings a wealth of international business experience in the electronics and process control industries as well as valuable experience in strategic planning, acquisition analysis and new business development. Tom will utilize his skills and experience to guide our new product development program, implement strategies to increase our global market share and support our worldwide sales organization."
Nash has previously held positions in general management, executive sales and marketing management, as well as product development, during his career at the Black & Decker Corp., Vitronics Corp. and most recently as president of CIMCIS Ltd.
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SEICA Inc. (Methuen, MA), a provider of electronics testing and production solutions, will further enhance its support network in North America with the opening of a sales and support office in Santa Clara, CA. At a time when many of its competitors are dedicating their resources to the Asian market, Seica plans to provide a high level of support in any geography where it has customers needing services.
Having set up an office near Boston in 2003 to serve the East coast, the new West coast office will provide local support for new and existing customers and have sales and demonstration capabilities for the company's S24 Backplane, S40 Pilot, ICT and Functional test products.
Seica was the first European company to develop and manufacture a flying probe tester for loaded boards, a platform that has been sold globally by Teradyne (and previously by GenRad). With its latest flying probe and other test technologies, Seica has emerged as a supplier of test technologies and is now backing its products with the support expected of a global player in the electronics industry.
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At DesignCon 2004, Winchester Electronics and Interconnect Technologies, business units of Northrop Grumman Corp. (Los Angeles, CA), and Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, CA) demonstrated the world's first implementation of a fully functioning 10 Gbps backplane reference design, manufactured using Winchester's SIP1000 I-Platform Passive Interconnect Technology, Interconnect Technologies' printed circuit board design and fabrication expertise and Xilinx Virtex-II Pro X field programmable gate arrys (FPGAs), and tested using Agilent 10 Gbps test and measurement equipment. Consistent with the input/output technology detailed in the UXPi standard, the companies demonstrated that 10 Gbps backplanes can be manufactured with off-the-shelf products and services available today.
"The inherent scalability and cost advantages of high-speed serial make this technology imperative for current and next-generation telecommunications, networking and storage applications," said Erich Goetting, vice president and general manager of the Advanced Product Group at Xilinx. "Today's demonstration proves that technology continues to push the envelope; backplanes can be built today that support 5G, 6.25G and 10G serial rates, allowing tomorrow's backplanes to be built and deployed today."
Michael P. Driscoll, president, Winchester Electronics, said, "The passive channel technology we are demonstrating at DesignCon 2004 will serve as a solid base upon which transceiver technologies for data rates of 20 Gbps and beyond will be built.The days of just selling connectors and printed circuit boards are gone and the days of selling channels have arrived. The reference design demonstrated proves that 10 Gbps in copper is a reality today."
The platform is a true interconnect platform designed to enable 10 Gbps+ serial data transmission in copper backplanes without the need for active equalization techniques. Conceived as a passive system-level interconnect, the platform seeks to reset the balance between the passive and active elements in what have become known as active interconnect systems by delivering a revolutionary new interconnect technology architecture that provides solutions for ultra high-speed, high-density differential applications.
Northrop Grumman Winchester Electronics is a provider of high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect products, including board-to-board connectors, RF connectors, cable assemblies and power interconnects. Northrop Grumman Interconnect Technologies designs and manufactures electrical and electro-optical printed circuit boards and backpanel assemblies.
The announcement represents a major milestone in the Xilinx Serial Tsunami initiative, designed to accelerate the industry move from parallel to serial I/O technology by delivering next-generation connectivity solutions that meet bandwidth requirements from 3.125 Gbps today to 10.3125 Gbps and beyond.
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