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Service Pack 2 for P-CAD 2004 (a PCB design system for layout professionals) includes over 130 new features and enhancements to give greater power and control over the PCB design process. Available as a free download to existing P-CAD 2004 customers.
Productivity enhancements include Variants, which can now be defined in both schematic and PCB with full ECO support in both directions. Variants can be created and edited by renaming, modifying the description, adding or removing components, and modifying the attributes of components to be placed with the Variant.
Can run multiple instances of all P-CAD applications- PCB, Schematic, and Library Manager/Executive. Provides backwards compatibility support that facilitates staggered upgrades and more trouble-free interaction between internal and external organizations. Efficiency has been improved with layer ordering for printing, andimprovements to copper pours. Comes with increased routing power due to improvements to glossing and hugging performance and the Specctra/Situs Exporter.
Enhancements were made to Bonus Technologies, including Altium Designer's Situs Topological Autorouter, which now recognizes and utilizes class-to-class rules and handles layer names with spaces in them. Clearance rules are interpreted correctly, with pad and via rules broken out into separate rules when necessary. Free Pads are no longer converted to vias. There is support for pad styles with zero height and width on top and bottom layers, layer rules from P-CAD and pre-routed fanouts in components. Split plane nets are now also handled and assigned correctly.
Available for free download at: http://www.altium.com/pcad/resources/downloads/spDownloads.
Altium Ltd, www.altium.com
Ashburn, VA - Sanmina SCI recently replaced IPA in their existing underside cleaning process with Zestron SW. The switch was prompted by the New Product Introduction Center to reduce the number of solder balls per board to comply with the IPC-610 standard. Various process optimizations with IPA failed which led to the search for a new cleaning agent. Process advantages achieved with the switch include the prevention of solder balls on the boards, a reduction in the consumption of the cleaner, a shorter process time and a higher flash point which led to increased operational safety.
Zestron, zestron.com
As the deadline for lead-free compliance looms, Grayline Inc. has announced that their manufactured flexible tubing products meet these standards. The EU directives apply to a wide range of products, including electrical and electronic equipment in which much of the tubing Grayline manufactures is used.
Grayline uses non-hazardous compounds to produce its PVC flexible tubing and can supply customers with certification of compliance if needed to verify that the compounds used in the manufacturing process are free of hazardous chemicals banned in the standards.
"Companies seeking to give their product the CE mark can feel confident that Grayline manufactured tubing will meet these standards," said Michael A. Mason, president.
Grayline Inc., graylineinc.com
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