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Responding to a sold-out PCB East 2006 exhibit floor plus input from 2006 exhibitors and attendees, UP Media Group Inc. has announced that PCB Design Conference East 2007 will return to the Durham Marriott at the Civic Center in Durham, NC, the week of October 21-26, 2007. Durham, NC, is located near Research Triangle Park in the heart of the second largest technology corridor in the U.S.

“We received really positive feedback on Durham, NC, which was a new location for PCB East 2006. This helped us make the decision to return to Durham in 2007,” said Pete Waddell, president of UP Media Group.

The 2007 technical conference program for PCB East will be co-chaired by Kathy Nargi-Toth, editor of Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture, and Mike Buetow, editor-in-chief of Circuits Assembly and editorial director for both magazines. Anyone interested in speaking or presenting at PCB East 2007 should go to www.pcbeast.com and choose “Speaking Opportunities.”

Resource: Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture

The EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The name EAGLE is an acronym, which stands for Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor.

The program consists of three main modules

• Layout Editor
• Schematic Editor
• Autorouter

which are embedded in a single user interface. Therefore there is no need for converting netlists between schematics and layouts.

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Pulsonix: Schematic Capture and PCB Layout

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PCB is a tool for the layout of printed circuit boards. PCB can produce industry standard RS-274-X and Excellon NC-Drill format output for submission to board manufacturers.

PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for the X11 window system. PCB includes a rats nest feature, design rule checking, and can provide industry standard RS-274-X (Gerber), NC drill, and centroid data (X-Y data) output for use in the board fabrication and assembly process. PCB offers high end features such as an autorouter and trace optimizer which can tremendously reduce layout time.

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P-CAD is the complete design solution for the PCB professional. Whether it’s developing high-speed board solutions, integrating large BGA devices into your design flows or dealing with complex signal integrity issues and high density PCB layouts, P-CAD’s proven power and stability provides the perfect environment for PCB design.

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P-CAD 2006 has an intuitive schematic editor designed specifically for layout specialists and fully-integrated library management gives you the power to tackle the most complex of designs.

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