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ATLANTA – UP Media Group has announced this year’s Free Tuesday lineup at PCB Design Conference West 2007.

PCB West takes placed March 25-30 at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center. Free Tuesday takes place March 27 between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.

The day includes a keynote address by Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics’ Systems Design Division.

Also offered: 13 free technical sessions and the products and services exhibition. That night, there is an Opening Night Networking Extravaganza (happy hour on the show floor at 6 p.m., Casino Night and the Dawg House Lounge from 8 – 11).

For session times, speakers and exhibitor information, visit www.pcbwest.com.

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN – Digi-Key Corp. will distribute Souriau’s circular and rectangular connectors, tools, accessories and contacts, the companies announced.

Separately, Digi-Key said it will distribute CSR products in North America, including BlueCore3 (Bluetooth v1.2 compliant), BlueCore4 (Bluetooth v2.0 and EDR compliant), Bluetooth development kits, software and accessories.

Finally, Digi-Key will distribute products for Amphenol Commercial worldwide, including D-sub, mini SAS, SFP, Infiniband, USB and RJ45 connectors.

No other terms were disclosed.

LOS ANGELES -- Last week’s Apex trade show was among the best I can remember for new equipment, materials and software. So much so, I would add, there is far too much to talk about here.

But I’ll take a shot.

PLANO, TX -- Rapid Tooling has received ISO 9001:2000 certification, the company announced today.

The certification recognizes the company's quality management system conforms to ISO standard requirements.
The certificate was issued by Quality Management Systems.

Rapid Tooling provides engineering services and hard tooling for electronics assembly and semiconductor packaging.

LOS ANGELES – Cimnet Systems Inc. and Direct Logix are now offering a bundled version of the companies’ respective engineering planning and management software.

The companies announced the move at a press conference during the IPC Apex show this week.

The combined solution is said to completely automate front-end operations, from quoting to pre-production engineering and design.

The bundled front-end automation tool includes Cimnet’s i-Quote Web-enabled PCB quotation system, and Direct Logix’s CAM Automation, Design Rule Check Analysis and Engineering Flow Control tools.

“This is a very powerful solution backed by two vendors that are directly focused on the unique needs and business requirements of leading PCB manufacturers around the world,” said Cimnet general manager Mehul Davé.

Cimnet is supplier of ERP software and services for the PCB industry. Direct Logix provides engineering procedure management software.