Over thirty years of experience doing PCB layouts (in fact the company name stems from when PCB design was the main focus of our business!) distribute, train and support users of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software in Australia and New Zealand. However, the achievements of Barry Olney, Managing Director spans two decades.

In 1987 Barry joined QPSX Communications as member of the Product Development team where he supervised the Computer Aided Design section. QPSX developed the technology (IEEE 802.6 standard) that would ultimately spawn the world’s present day broadband telecommunications infrastructure.

The prototype system was developed in 18 months but the real challenge for Barry was to re-design the product to comply with QPSX technology and distribution partners Siemens and Alcatel in order to bring the product to market. Barry embarked on an extensive study of IPC and various manufacturing design rules and ultimately produced a design guideline that would enable high speed multilayer printed circuit boards to be manufactured, automatically assembled and automatically tested in any modern assembly plant. This experience formed the basis for the Advanced Design for Surface Mount Technology course Engineering contractors, software, and hardware. They provide specialists who can bring projects to a successful close for all your Mentor Graphics needs.
Alpha-C, Inc. - Design of rigid and flex circuits. Delivery 3 to 10 days. PADS, Accel/Protel, PCAD supported. Turnkey manufacturing, assembly and test.
Appropriate Technology Corp. - Embedded control design /engineering services /machine design and build /programming for instrumention and industrial process control/ Electronic engineering /Printed Circuit Design and Layout.
CA Design - Offers layout designs, prototypes, and training. Available both offsite or in-house, with OrCad, Cadence, Mentor, and PowerPCB platforms. Online quotes, 20 years experience.
Cadenergy Limited - Designs PCBs for consumer, industrial, oil, telecoms, medical, defense, shipping and security markets. Based in Scotland.
DVK Integrated Services, Inc. - PCB design services provider for 19 years using Mentor Graphics, Spectra, Autoactive RE EDA tools. We specialize in high speed and high tech board designs.
Dynamic FPC Design, Inc. - Flex, rigid, and rigid-flex board design. Using Protel, OrCAD, Cadence Allegro, Specctra route. Delivery 1 to 5 days.
Fisher PCB - Experienced PCB design service for controlled impedance, high speed, tight constraints, and rush service. PADS PowerPCB, BlazeRouter, Orcad, AutoCad, and Specctra are the suppported software.
Gator CAD - Innovative designs using the latest EDA tools from Innoveda, Inc. Improve the market and technology leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions, today announced the availability of the PADS I/O Designer? product specifically targeted at its PADS? product user community. For designers implementing complex field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) on their PCBs, the I/O Designer? product has a proven track record of decreasing design cycle time, improving performance, and lowering product costs. These same benefits are now available to the PADS product users at an aggressive entry price as the use of high density, high performance FPGAs increases across the spectrum of electronic products. For the first time the PADS I/O Designer product is being made available to the PADS community.

“Mentor Graphics has demonstrated exceptional productivity benefits in optimizing the FPGA-to-PCB integration process with I/O Designer,」 said Danny Biran, Altera's senior vice president of product and corporate marketing. “The introduction of I/O Designer for PADS will bring the benefits of cycle time reduction and lower PCB costs to a broader FPGA / PCB customer base. Altera’s advanced FPGA technology, combined with I/O Designer for PADS, is a perfect solution for the PADS user to expand their mainstream FPGA usage.」

“Providing an industry-leading integrated and concurrent FPGA / PCB design process has been a major benefit to our customers,」 said Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics’ Systems Design Division. “Users of high-speed verification models written in ICX-SPICE to be used with Mentor Graphics? industry leading ICX? PCB design verification environment, consisting of fully integrated analog/mixed signal circuit simulation technology. Designers can now implement the world's fastest FPGAs on their PCBs using Mentor's integrated design entry, place and route and signal integrity solution.

"Mentor Graphics has reduced the cost and complexity of multi-gigabit signal integrity analysis by fully integrating its SPICE and S-Parameter solution directly within its PCB design environment," said Jerry Banks, director of Global Alliances at Xilinx, Inc. "Users should benefit from a robust design with a reduced number of board spins and a higher PCB production yield by having accurate verification models for our multi gigabit Virtex-II Pro X devices."

"High performance Xilinx FPGAs, such as the Virtex-II Pro X devices, are achieving speeds of 10 Gigabits per second per channel," stated Joe Dalton, director of marketing, systems design division, Mentor Graphics. "Rules of thumb no longer apply when placing and routing these devices on a PCB. Each PCB interconnect must be carefully verified using advanced tools from Mentor Graphics and Xilinx FPGAs. Our collaboration with Xilinx enables our users to capitalize on the most advanced FPGA technology available." high-end FPGAs report time-to-market reduction and systems performance improvement of up to 50 percent, and reductions in PCB layer counts resulting in reduced product costs. With the continuing trend in electronic products of using even more high-end FPGAs, the impact of providing I/O Designer to our PADS users is significant.」

The PADS I/O Designer Product

The PADS I/O Designer family provides for concurrent design of the FPGA and PCB by bridging these unique design flows and automating the various processes needed to implement today’s high pin-count, high-speed FPGAs on PCBs. Starting with nothing or an early hardware design language (HDL) description or a top-level DxDesigner? product, the FPGA-PCB interface is quickly defined with a variety of correct by construction, drag and drop PCB signal to FPGA pin assignment methods. The PADS I/O Designer product then synchronizes the interface across the FPGA and PCB flows through:
productivity and decrease engineering cycle times. Excellent customer service and our commitment to quality.
Gendreau Microsystems, Inc. - Layout design of rigid, flex, and rigid-flex. Controlled impedance, high speed, tight constraints, rush service. PADS, Orcad, Protel, Specctra platforms.
Golden Gate Graphics - PCB design service and CAD CAM CAE training. Located in Colorado, this fast turn-around printed circuit board layout service has served customers coast-to-coast since 1990.
Hamilton PCB design - PCB Design service in the Raleigh Durham North Carolina area and is the maker of the AM1000 Rangemaster Part 15 AM radio transmitter.
HCD - Holmes Circuit Designs Ltd. - Printed circuit design, system design and quality pcb services. RF, digital and analog design. Quality PCB Design and build service delivered on time...
Keimac Circuit Solutions - Schematic capture, PCB layout, small scale assembly, parts sourcing and circuit board prototyping using PADS Power PCB and Orcad.
Knox Associates Design - Twenty-four years experience in electronics and engineering

Using the latest Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools from Altium Limited, which currently means Designer 6. We can of course also read files from earlier Protel versions (Protel DXP, Protel 2004, Protel 99SE or Protel 98) and other PCB programs.
Analogue, digital, RF and power designs can all be handled, with 'design for manufacture' factors always being carefully considered. Single layer, double layer and multi layer boards are all easily accommodated.

One of our recent designs was a ten layer board with geometries of 0.15mm clearance and track widths. As you might imagine, this board was heavily loaded with fine pitch BGA chips.

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