Podcasts about ecad

Robert Bryne, director of marketing at Allspice.io, joins Geoffrey Hazelett of FreedomCAD, Matt Leary of Newgrange Design and Mike Buetow of PCEA to talk about the five-year-old company's GIT hardware platform that helps hardware and electrical engineers streamline hardware design reviews. We discuss the ECAD formats that Allspice engages with, the templates used, why GitHub matters for software teams, and the company's target markets. Recorded live on the show floor at PCB East 2025.

What happens when you fabricate the wrong version of a board because someone skipped the process? It's a nightmare scenario—and it's more common than you think. But there's a solution: PLM integration. In this episode of The Printed Circuit Podcast, host Steph Chavez is joined by Scott Claes, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Siemens, to explore how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems can revolutionize PCB design workflows. With nearly two decades of experience integrating ECAD data with PLM systems, Scott offers practical insights into how PLM enhances design control, collaboration, and efficiency across global teams. The discussion covers the real-world problems PCB designers face when managing data, from version confusion to design reuse challenges, and how a properly implemented PLM system solves them. Whether you're navigating compliance needs like ITAR and HIPAA, or trying to bridge the gap between ECAD and MCAD, this episode provides a clear roadmap for leveraging PLM in your design ecosystem. This conversation is essential for PCB designers, electrical engineers, CAD admins, and product teams looking to streamline their design process and avoid costly mistakes. What You'll Learn in this Episode: What does a PLM system do? (1:35) How does PLM integration enhance rather than restrict design freedom? (4:55) How PLM enables easy reuse of previously released designs. (6:35) Avoiding Costly Errors: How PLM prevents versioning mix-ups and fabrication mistakes (8:15) How PLM supports ECAD/MCAD integration and complex designs like flex and rigid-flex (11:55) Learning Curve & Workflow Impact: What PCB designers can expect when adapting to PLM (13:30)  Behind the Scenes of Integration: How PLM connectors automate design data management and bill of materials comparisons (16:55) Library Management & Synchronization: What to push, what not to, and where EDM fits in (21:10) How PLM supports ITAR, HIPAA, and team-based permission management (24:40) Why learning PLM early can boost your career and prevent process bottlenecks (26:55) What's next for ECAD-to-PLM flows and supplier integration (28:10) Connect with Steph Chavez: LinkedIn Website Connect with Scott Claes LinkedIn Website

Manually manufacturing control panels is difficult. It demands highly skilled labor, years of reading schematics, and the ability to troubleshoot. What's more, it's a time-consuming process. This is where automated and semi-automated panel design and assembly comes in. Not only does this innovation drastically reduce the amount of time spent manufacturing panels, but it also frees up skilled laborers to do higher-value work. In this episode, we're joined by Rittal's Brian Jung and EPLAN's Kruno Kutnohorski. Join us as we discuss the difference between semi-automated and automated panel design and assembly, how to help customers overcome technology hesitancy, and why automation is nothing to be afraid of. In this episode, find out:The difference between automating panels in America and the rest of the worldThe importance of having a story to tell that's backed by data, rather than just conceptualHow EPLAN and Rittal use “lighthouse customers”Best practices for effective collaboration How automation is helping solve the skilled labor shortageWhy there's no right or wrong way to start with automationBrian's “Girl Scout cookie enterprise,” and Kruno's favorite football team and animal!Enjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It's feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!Tweetable Quotes:“Before, we had a story to tell conceptually, now we have a story to tell because we have actual data to back it up.” - Brian Jung“If we can help customers going from manual to semi-automated, they are saving a lot of time.” - Kruno Kutnohorski“You're not displacing a human, right? They're doing other jobs that bring value to the company.” - Brian JungLinks & mentions:EPLAN, provides ECAD software and service solutions for electrical panel builders, electrical design, automation and mechatronic engineeringRittal, the world's leading systems provider for Enclosures, Power Distribution, Climate Control, IT infrastructure, 19" racks, and software and servicesGolden Road Brewing Company, Los Angeles' largest craft brewerMake sure to visit http://manufacturinghappyhour.com for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

Can seamless ECAD/MCAD collaboration revolutionize your PCB designs? How can women in engineering shape this bright future and lead the charge in challenging industry norms? I'm your host, Steph Chavez, and in this episode, we take a deep dive into the world of ECAD/MCAD collaboration with industry experts Charlene McCauley and Terrie Duffy. They share their vast experience working on complex PCB designs for major companies like Dell, highlighting the importance of seamless integration between electrical and mechanical design.  Charlene and Terrie also reflect on their journeys as women in the traditionally male-dominated field of engineering. They talk about their efforts to mentor the next generation of engineers, and they emphasize the growing opportunities for women in PCB design and engineering.  This episode is packed with insights on overcoming design challenges, the evolution of collaboration tools, and inspiring stories about breaking barriers in the engineering world.  What You'll Learn in this Episode: The importance of communication in PCB design (06:05) Deciding to integrate ECAD/MCAD in PCB design (06:40) Is PCB design possible without MCAD collaboration? (09:55) Examples of how ECAD/MCAD collaboration improved the design cycle (12:20) The types of data exchange formats that are used, i.e., IDX, DXF IDF, EMN  (14:45) Advice to the new generation of engineers, especially women (17:50) Connect with Steph Chavez: LinkedIn Website Connect with Charlene McCauley LinkedIn Website Connect with Terrie Duffy LinkedIn Website

Eventos musicais podem ser máquinas de faturamento e enormes vitrines para anunciantes, mas as marcas devem ficar de olho na reputação. Isabel Amorim, superintendente executiva do ECAD, explica a importância do pagamento de direitos autorais para garantir a lisura do evento, gerar receita e promover valor para os patrocinadores. A propósito, veja como o Ecad pode ajudar você https://adm.to/ecad Conteúdo patrocinado Aprenda como automatizar o Atendimento no WhatsApp com o RD Station Conversas https://adm.to/rdexplora Saiba como ter acesso a um portfolio completo de serviços contábeis para sua empresa por um custo menor. Conheça a Agilize https://adm.to/agilize Acompanhe as ações do Conselho Federal de Administração pelo site https://cfa.org.br/ Sobre a entrevistada Isabel Amorim é superintendente executiva do Ecad. Formada em Administração de Empresas, ela conta com vasta experiência nos principais grupos de mídia, como The New York Times, El País e Editora Abril e Globo. É pós-graduada em Comunicação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e em Gerenciamento Global pela IE Madri, tem um MBA pela Business School de São Paulo e Rotman School em Toronto e estudou ciências políticas na Universidade de Stanford em 2018.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todo mundo faz planos para a vida, mas você já deixou tudo planejado para o dia de sua partida? Lucas Provenza, CEO e fundador do Grupo Zelo, explica pra gente como ele percebeu a oportunidade de negócios no segmento funerário, quais os desafios e como os cuidados pós-vida são fundamentais. Fica com a gente porque esse papo envolve muita administração. Conteúdo patrocinado Deixe sua marca no mundo da música. Entenda como o ECAD pode ajudar sua marca a ter o destaque merecido https://adm.to/ecad Automatize rotinas fiscais, reduza erros e aumente a produtividade com a Qive https://adm.to/qive1 Acompanhe as ações do CFA pelo site https://cfa.org.br/Sobre o entrevistadoLucas Provenza atua há 15 anos no segmento funerário e há 7 anos é fundador e CEO do Grupo Zelo, um dos maiores players do segmento funerário em atuação no Brasil. Lucas já atuou como analista financeiro e, no início da carreira, empreendeu com uma pequena fábrica de massas e produzindo sorvetes. Na faculdade de Economia, fez um trabalho de viabilidade econômica e técnica de um cemitério, ideia que deu o start para a criação de um negócio no ramo funerário. Lucas tem pós em Gerenciamento de Projetos e MBA pela Fundação Dom Cabral. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Teve gente que pintou um arco-íris de energia pra deixar o mundo cheio de alegria. Outros se jogaram na festa do estica e puxa, enquanto a She-Ra namorava o Esqueleto no Jardim. Sem contar quem liberou geral porque gostava de brincar de circo, dar cambalhotas, fazer palhaçadas. Pois é, há uma música da Xuxa pra cada situação da vida dos brasileiros, e que sorte a nossa ter aproveitado várias delas. Pensando nessa galera, que engloba tanto gente dos anos 70 quanto jovens nascidos já no século 21, decidi encarar a missão de descobrir qual das mais de 1000 músicas da Xuxa é a número 1. Será que dá pra fazer isso? Como definir o maior hino num repertório que é uma sucessão de hits? A maior música da Xuxa é a mais emocionante? É a que teve mais impacto cultural? Isso seria difícil de medir, então procurei critérios objetivos. Especificamente, quais as músicas mais tocadas. E achei um levantamento oficial, sobre o qual conto no episódio. ========================== APRENDA EM 5 MINUTOS é o podcast sobre coisas que você nem sabia que queria saber. Os episódios são roteirizados e apresentados por Alvaro Leme. Jornalista, mestre e doutorando em Ciências da Comunicação na ECA-USP e criador de conteúdo há vinte anos, ele traz episódios sobre curiosidades dos mais variados tipos. São episódios curtos, quase sempre com 5 minutos — mas alguns passam disso, porque tem tema que precisa mesmo de mais um tempinho. Use o cupom ALVINO, na evino, ganhe 10% de desconto nas suas compras e ajude o APRENDA EM 5 MINUTOS a se manter no ar Edição dos episódios em vídeo: André Glasner Siga a gente no Instagram: http://instagram.com/aprendavideocast http://instagram.com/alvaroleme http://instagram.com/andreglasner Comercial e parcerias: contato@alvaroleme.com.br ====================== Quer saber mais? Confira as fontes que consultei para criar o episódio - De 'Xou da Xuxa' a 'XSPB': lista de músicas mais tocadas da Xuxa vai surpreender você Por Lucas Costa, Gshow - O que faz o Ecad? Blog do Ecad

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Struggling to conceive is one of the most lonely and isolating experiences women endure. All of the women I've met on this journey struggle to share about it with most or even all of the close people in their life. In fact, around half of the women I've met on this don't tell their mothers or their mothers-in-law what's going on. There's no right or wrong or good or bad there, but the consequence of keeping it to yourself can be high. But how do you know who to keep in and who to keep out? How can you tell if someone will be trustworthy and not make you feel worse? Harvard researcher and infertility expert Alice Domar has a system called the ECAD that can help.  On today's show we dive into it and look at how it can benefit your journey for the better. Want to go deeper with what you heard? Grab a copy of my Free E-book while it's still available. You'll learn 3 Surprising Habits that Bock Your Baby Click HERE Want daily hits of high vibe inspiration, down to earth information from an authentic, supportive source who's been there? Follow me @BadassFertility on IG

In this episode of Control Intelligence, written by contributing editor Shawn Cox, editor-in-chief Mike Bacidore discusses eCAD and how it empowers engineers.

Nesta edição, falaremos sobre o projeto que obriga o Sistema Único de Saúde a realizar campanhas sobre os riscos da automedicação ( PL 1108/2021 ); a sugestão aprovada no âmbito do Programa Jovem Senador que prevê a avaliação auditiva e oftalmológica de estudantes que ingressarem no ensino fundamental ( SUG 8/2023 ); o projeto que institui o Plano Plurianual da União para o período de 2024 a 2027 ( PLN 28/2023 ); o projeto da Lei Orçamentária de 2024 ( PLN 29/2023 ); a medida provisória que trata da tributação de fundos fechados de investimento ( MPV 1184/2023 ); e o projeto que isenta as rádios comunitárias do pagamento da taxa do Ecad e autoriza a veiculação, por esse tipo de emissora, de publicidade paga ( PL 4182/2023 ).

There's a new workflow offering coming soon as a result of the collaboration between Altium and ANSYS. And today, we are joined by Joao Beck, Altium's Director of Enterprise Technical Marketing, to give us all the details. This new workflow is yet another step in Altium's quest toward a digital ecosystem, acting as an important bridge between ECAD and simulation Make sure to watch the entire episode so you can fully understand what's coming your way soon. Show Highlights: 0:00 Intro 0:50 Altium's New Workflow Offering 4:53 MCAD CoDesigner in Simulation? 7:28 A Full Suite of Capabilities 8:20 What the Workflow Looks Like 10:40 What's in the Revision History 12:47 The Report 14:14 Version Control & Rolling Back Simulations? 16:16 Simulation to Altium & Vice Versa 21:43 Mechanical Simulation? 23:00 The Digital Bridge Ecosystem 25:38 Broader Access? 26:42 Who's This For?

O Programa Homenagem é produzido pela equipe da Web Rádio Nós Na Fita com a intenção de homenagear personalidades, que de forma positiva, deixaram seu nome na história da arte, cultura, esporte, ciências e outras áreas afins. Nesta semana, falamos sobre Tom Jobim. Compositor, pianista, violonista, arranjador e cantor, é considerado um dos grandes expoentes da música brasileira. Tom Jobim internacionalizou a bossa nova e, com a ajuda de importantes artistas estadunidenses, fundiu-a com o jazz nos anos 1960 para criar uma nova sonoridade, de sucesso popular. Por isso, às vezes é conhecido como o "pai da bossa nova". Ele fez o primeiro álbum de jazz a vencer disco do ano no Grammy. Autor de inúmeros sucessos, Jobim também foi o responsável por popularizar o jazz, mesclando com o pop. Tom Jobim teve inúmeras, incontáveis e inesquecíveis parcerias musicais, como por exemplo Frank Sinatra e Vinícius de Moraes. É o compositor de "Garota de Ipanema", uma das músicas mais gravadas de todos os tempos (mais de 240 vezes por outros artistas). Em levantamento de 2022, produzido pelo ECAD, Tom tem 8 das 15 músicas brasileiras mais regravadas da história, contando canções solo ou em parceria. Confira!

Wally Rhines, the former chairman of Mentor Graphics and now spokesperson for the ESD Alliance, updates us on the latest PCB design software and semiconductor market trends (spoiler alert: sales were up again), and addresses why ECAD companies are hiring even in the face of layoffs among Big Tech. He is joined by Merlyn Brunken, director of marketing strategic planning at Siemens Digital Industries Software to provide the quarterly report, which showed gains across a number of sectors and geographies.  

Manufacturers are looking to minimize the cost of production, the time to market, and the number of respins for their PCBs. While introducing powerful design and testing tools makes a real difference, they aren't as successful in silos. To properly harness the power of the latest technology, manufacturers have to be intentional with ECAD-MCAD collaboration. I'm your host, Steph Chavez, a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Siemens. I'm glad to be joined by David Walker, Senior Technical Software Product Manager at Siemens, responsible for defining the direction of the Siemens NX software. And Greg Arnot, Product Marketing Manager Siemens NX. They'll help us understand the current state of ECAD-MCAD collaboration. In this episode, you'll learn about the current trends happening in the electronic design field. You'll also learn about what ECAD-MCAD collaboration entails and the benefits that it offers manufacturers. Additionally, you'll learn about the consequences of not implementing collaboration between these two important teams. What You'll Learn in this Episode: The most important trend in electronic design (02:45) The meaning of ECAD-MCAD collaboration (11:34) Signs that ECAD-MCAD collaboration can be improved (15:51) What is needed for successful ECAD-MCAD collaboration (18:08) Connect with  Greg Arnot LinkedIn Connect with  David Walker LinkedIn Connect with Steph Chavez LinkedIn

Avresti mai immaginato che la tua musica potesse essere scritta da un software di intelligenza artificiale dal tuo pc?Una startup italiana ha creato un software in grado di creare musica partendo dall'Intelligenza artificiale con il grande obiettivo di ridurre i costi delle licenze SIAE, ECAD e tutte le altre licenze internazionali che servono per trasmettere musica in luoghi pubblici.Ne parliamo nella nostra rubrica "Startupeiros & Investidores" con Cosimo Barberi, CEO di Purilian, startup di Firenze che è pronta a sbarcare a San Paolo per aiutare imprese di ogni tipo a creare ambienti musicali adatti per i loro business e soprattutto abbattere i costi legati al diritto d'autore.Music is YOU, a música é você!

MARCAS COMO UBC; STRIM; AUDIENCY; FUGA; ABRAMUS; ECAD; CHECKPI; ONE RPM; CLUBE DA COMPOSIÇÃO E MUITAS EXIBIRAM SEU TRABALHO, NA MAIOR FEIRA DE MÚSICA SERTANEJA DO BRASIL. TAMBÉM ESTIVERAM PRESENTES PERSONALIDADES COMO O INFLUENCER SERTANEJO DUDU PURCENA, O CANTOR E COMPOSITOR PAULO PIRES E MUITOS OUTROS. ................. A EXPONEJA DESDE 2018 CONECTA PESSOAS. PARA VOCÊ QUE RESPIRA MÚSICA, VIVE DE MÚSICA CURTE música SERTANEJa VEM CONECTAR COM AS TENDÊNCIAS DO MERCADO. ......................... A PARTIR DE QUARTA-FEIRA VOCÊ VAI ACOMPANHAR TUDO QUE ROLOU NO MAIOR EVENTO DE MÚSICA SERTANEJA DO BRASIL. FORAM MAIS DE 30 ENTREVISTAS VOCÊ VAI SABER TUDO O QUE ROLOU AQUI NO TALKNEJO COMIGO VÂNIA GUILSI, COM PAULA PIRES E FLORA ALVES. APERTE O PLAY PARA O MUNDO DO NETWORKING .............. QUER SABER MAIS? ENTÃO CONTINUE AQUI TODA SEMANA UM PROTAGONISTA DA MÚSICA VAI CONTAR SUA HISTÓRIA. .............. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talknejo/message

ECAD/MCAD collaboration is important for companies that need to create powerful products fast and efficiently. However, challenges such as their siloed nature and different data formats make it difficult for the two to work together seamlessly. This leads to a loss of time and resources as the company is forced to undertake multiple respins necessitated by avoidable errors. I'm your host, Steph Chavez, a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Siemens. I'm glad to be joined by Alex Grange, Technical Marketing Engineer for the Electronic Board Division at Siemens, focusing on electromechanical collaboration, and is currently the leader of the ECAD/MCAD Implementer Forum developing the IDX standard. He'll help us understand what is being done to improve ECAD/MCAD collaboration. In this episode, you'll learn about the challenges that ECAD/MCAD collaboration faces and how it impacts companies. You'll also hear about the impact of the IDX standard on the industry's ability to collaborate. Additionally, you'll hear about PCB design best practices and how IDX fits in with them. What You'll Learn in this Episode: What doesn't work today when it comes to ECAD/MCAD co-design collaboration (01:02) The challenges presented by older data formats in ECAD/MCAD collaboration (04:16) How IDX format benefits electromechanical exchange today (06:14) Best practices that PCB designers should implement (08:25) Connect with Alex Grange LinkedIn Connect with Steph Chavez LinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.01.514384v1?rss=1 Authors: Das, M., Cheng, D., Matzat, T., Auld, V. Abstract: Glial cells in the peripheral nerve wrap axons to insulate them and ensure efficient conduction of neuronal signals. In the myelin sheath, it is proposed that the autotypic tight junctions and adherens junctions form glia-glia complexes that stabilize the glia sheath in myelinating glia. Yet the role of adhesion junctions in non-myelinating glia of vertebrates or invertebrates has not been clearly established. Many components of adhering junctions contain PDZ (PSD-95, Dlg, ZO1) domains or are recruited to these junctions by PDZ binding motifs. To test for the role of PDZ domain proteins in glial sheath formation, we carried out an RNAi screen using Drosophila melanogaster to knockdown each of the 66 predicted PDZ domain proteins in the peripheral glia. We identified six PDZ genes with potential roles in glial morphology, and further investigated Discs-large 5 (Dlg5), a scaffolding protein with no previously known function in glia. Knockdown of Dlg5 disrupts subperineurial glia (SPG) morphology, including gaps in the membrane that coincide with disruption of septate junction proteins. To further our investigation of Dlg5, we focused on cadherins and found both N-Cadherin and E-Cadherin are expressed throughout peripheral glia. Knockdown of Ecad phenocopied the loss of Dlg5 leading to gaps in the SPG and septate junctions while only simultaneous loss of both N-Cadherins (Ncad, and CadN2) had the same effect. The loss of all three Cadherins enhanced these phenotypes as did loss of Dlg5 when paired with Cadherin knockdown. This leads to a model where Dlg5 plays a role in conjunction with Cadherins in glial membrane stabilization and SJ formation in the subperineurial glia. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

After years of opera singing, Zainen Suzuki made a career switch and dived into coding with the help of Lighthouse Labs' Bootcamp. In this episode of Bits & Bytes podcast, he explains why he left music for a career in software development, what skills are necessary for coding, and what the potential of Web3 is. About Bits & Bytes: Hosted by your favourite Jean Yoon & Sam Chan from Launch, season 2 of Bits & Bytes brings in guests ranging from serial entrepreneurs to first-time interns to really spill the beans on what it's really like to work within a startup while going through Jean's unique food challenges! Listen to more episodes of Bits & Bytes: https://pod.link/1501887543 Find out more at https://bnb.pinecast.co

The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization's vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry.   Show Highlights: What is J.A.M.E.S. and how did Alexandre become involved in the organization? J.A.M.E.S (Jetted Additively Manufactured Electronic Sources) is an online community of professionals, stake holder, manufacturers who share the same vision of accelerating the AME technology Alexadre's AHA moment was seeing a drone's PCB created through AME process The current technology readiness level is currently between experimental and demonstration pilot phase Introducing new technology to the industry has it's challenges: Influencing engineers' mindset Which design tool to use? In an ideal world a tool with both ECAD and MCAD design capabilities is necessary–a fully working 3D auto router will be amazing Design standards are inexistent at the moment On another note, the lack of design standards opens up to wider creative possibilities. Standardation is the enemy of freedom -Zach Peterson Moving forward to future plans: Scaling up, manufacturing of the equipments and creation of additive process design rules Availability of resources and current efforts to educate PCB designers through AME Academy Links and Resources: Follow J.A.M.E.S on LinkedIn Connect with Alexandre Schafer on LinkedIn Access Register to AME Academy Visit J.A.M.E.S website Full OnTrack Podcast Library Altium Website Get Your First Month of Altium Designer® for FREE  

Cadence and Dassault Systèmes in late February announced the combining of the former's  Allegro platform with the latter's 3DExperience platform in a joint solution that enables  customers to perform multidiscipline modeling, simulation and optimization of complex, connected electronic systems. The firms say this new multidisciplinary approach can accelerate customers' end-to-end system development process while optimizing their design for performance, reliability, manufacturability, supply resilience, compliance and cost. Today's guests are Stéphane Declée, CEO of the Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA brand, and Michael Jackson, corporate vice president of R&D at Cadence's System, Package, Board Group. They address a range of topics related to the integration, including how this could help users working in both environments, the manufacturing elements that can now be simulated, the functionality updates, and how other partnerships with ECAD and MCAD providers will be affected. 

On this episode of PCB Chat we discuss the fourth quarter 2021 market numbers from the ESD Alliance, which were released the week of April 4, 2022. Our guests are Wally Rhines, who spent more than 45 years in in semiconductor and PCB design as an executive with Mentor Graphics and before that, TI; and Merlyn Brunken, whose is the longtime market intelligence director with Siemens Digital Industries, formerly Mentor.   This podcast is brought to you by PCB East, the original conference for the #electronics #design, #manufacturing and #assembly industry on the East Coast. Coming to Marlboro, MA, on April 11-13, with the one-day exhibition and a day's worth of free technical sessions on April 12. Visit pcbeast.com for details.

Altium launches a new curriculum into the college in university space called Altium Education. In this episode, Rea Callender, Altium's Vice President of Education tell us what is in the curriculum, who is it for, and how it will help PCB designers and aspiring designers advance into their career. Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: Altium launches Altium Education, which aims to educate anyone who knows nothing about printed circuit board design, to learn the skills to create a printed circuit board, and send it off to manufacturingStudents can still apply for Free Altium Designer® license Altium is taking the lead in PCB Design EducationTeaching the process of circuit board design Modular approach with 16 units that college professors can use to supplement their course Student can take the curriculum for free and take it as a self-phase learning tool Altium Education have received positive feedback from college professors  prior to its launch College professor - excellent response There is currently no curriculum similar to Altium Education, it is a supplemental course, it's not meant to displace anything Pcdandf survey reports that in 15 years, approximately 78% of the workforce to retire which may lead to the talent shortage Altium Education will help attract talent to the fieldIt will equip the students with proper skills in PCB design It is designed for High School students, College students, and Professional Links and Resources: Register to Altium Education for Free Connect with Leah Callender on LinkedIn Yoshi Fukawa Episode - Coming Soon Altium Designer Free Trial Connect with Zack on LinkedIn Full OnTrack Podcast Library Altium Website Download your Altium Designer Free Trial Learn More about Altium Nexar Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics

Em 2021, a música Garota de Ipanema foi, segundo o Ecad, a canção brasileira mais gravada. Neste episódio do Conta uma Música, Rodolfo Neves e o convidado Mauro Nápoles conversam sobre Garota de Ipanema, bossa-nova, música, história e muito mais. Conheça nossa plataforma de cursos para o ENEM e outros vestibulares clicando aqui!

Wally Rhines, ex chairman of Mentor and spokesperson for the ESD Alliance, joins PCB Chat host Mike Buetow to discuss the latest data for the printed circuit board and semiconductor design software market. Led by big gains in analysis and physical design, PCB tools turned in another solid quarter. Rhines shares the data, along with observations on key end-markets and why electric vehicle designs are sometimes misunderstood.  

Mario Sérgio Campos, gerente-executivo de Distribuição do Ecad - 14/11/2021 by Rádio Gaúcha

The second quarter was "dynamite" for PCB design software sales, explains Wally Rhines, referring to the 16% year-over-year increase in ECAD sales. Rhines, the longtime Mentor CEO and spokesperson for the ESD Alliance, joins market research guru Merlyn Brunken of Siemens to review the latest market data and discuss the history of semiconductor trade wars and relationships between PCB and IC design starts with PCB Chat host Mike Buetow.  

No Inteira ou Meia desta quinta-feira (7), trazemos as principais previsões sobre quem deve receber indicações ao Grammmy no mês que vem (com brasileira na lista!) e nossos palpites sobre quem deve ter mais chance de levar o prêmio para casa. Também comentamos os principais destaques do BET Hip Hop Awards e a revisão de notas de diversos álbuns feitas pela Pitchfork. Descubra qual álbum passou de 6.8 para nota 10 e quais tiveram a nota rebaixada. Ainda no programa de hoje, também te contamos quem ganha mais na arrecadação de direitos autorais no Brasil: os intérpretes ou os compositores? Para fechar, temos o retorno dos eventos, incluindo as novas regras do carnaval de rua de São Paulo e drops sobre Super Bowl, BTS, Caravana das Drags e muito mais!

No Inteira ou Meia desta quinta-feira (26), falamos sobre a lista de indicados ao MTV Miaw 2021, que foi anunciada esta semana. Também trazemos novidade sobre a data de lançamento de "Donda", o tão esperando álbum do Kanye West. Ainda no programa de hoje, Jesy Nelson, do Little Mix, abre o jogo sobre sua saúde mental; a guerra pelos direitos autorais no Brasil; a retomada dos eventos pelo mundo e os drops da semana.

Se você for tocar músicas de artistas famosos no seu podcast, você vai ter de pagar o Ecad. A dúvida geral no mercado é quanto custa e como pagar. Os critérios do próprio site do Ecad não são claros. Featuring: Jean Caristina, advogado, professor e fundador do blog Intervalo Legal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina). Ouça a entrevista completa no Podcast-se: https://open.spotify.com/episode/31vDiu4uCBPeeetxqOJP74. Post no site da Tracto: https://www.tracto.com.br/posso-usar-musica-no-meu-podcast/. Tabela de preços do Ecad: https://www3.ecad.org.br/eu-uso-musica/tabela-de-precos/Paginas/default.aspx. Página explicativa do Ecad: https://www3.ecad.org.br/eu-uso-musica/arrecadacao/Paginas/default.aspx. Músicas gratuitas no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.

Nesta edição do Baixo-Cast, comentários sobre: - As famílias na política e a ideologia do centrão - Braga Netto ameaça eleições de 2022 - Brasil está mais triste, ECAD cai 20% na arrecadação Estes são os assuntos deste episódio do Baixo-Cast que termina com mais dicas de cultura. Ouça e compartilhe.

O YouTube fala do “uso aceitável” de músicas nos vídeos. Uso aceitável seria o uso pequeno ou em contextos bem especiais. Mas cuidado: isso vale apenas para que um vídeo não seja advertido no YouTube. Não é lei. Podem pintar problemas com o Ecad, sim. Muito antes da era digital, já existia no mercado a história de que, usando até 10 segundos da música, não precisa pagar direitos autorais”. Isso é lenda. Featuring: Jean Caristina, advogado, professor e fundador do blog Intervalo Legal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina). Ouça a entrevista completa no Podcast-se: https://open.spotify.com/episode/31vDiu4uCBPeeetxqOJP74. Post no site da Tracto: https://www.tracto.com.br/posso-usar-musica-no-meu-podcast/. Página do YouTube que explica o uso aceitável: https://www.youtube.com/intl/pt-BR/about/copyright/fair-use/#yt-copyright-four-factors. Músicas gratuitas no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.

Você não pode usar músicas de artistas consagrados em seu podcast. A razão é simples: uma música é uma propriedade de alguém. Existe no Brasil, o Ecad é responsável por recolher os direitos das músicas e repassar para as associações de artistas e para os próprios artistas. E ele deixa claro: podcast é exibição coletiva, assim como rádio.Featuring: Jean Caristina, advogado, professor e fundador do blog Intervalo Legal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina). Ouça a entrevista completa no Podcast-se: https://open.spotify.com/episode/31vDiu4uCBPeeetxqOJP74. Post no site da Tracto: https://www.tracto.com.br/posso-usar-musica-no-meu-podcast/. Tabela de preços do Ecad: https://www3.ecad.org.br/eu-uso-musica/tabela-de-precos/Paginas/default.aspx. Página explicativa do Ecad: https://www3.ecad.org.br/eu-uso-musica/arrecadacao/Paginas/default.aspx.

Gonzaguinha, cantor e compositor carioca que, se estivesse vivo, hoje estaria com 75 anos. “Viver, e não ter a vergonha de ser feliz…” Em primeiro lugar no ranking, O que é o que é? foi sua canção mais tocada, além de mais gravada por outros intérpretes. Ao todo, Gonzaguinha tem 294 músicas e 348 gravações registradas. Ganha destaque na lista, entre os músicos que mais regravaram as canções, a cantora Maria Bethânia – seguida de Leo Gandelman, Emilio Santiago, Leo Brandão e Gonzagão.

Neste episodio falamos sobre os discografia de Roberto Carlos. Lembramos que os números apresentados foram compilados de dados do ECAD, Nielsen Soundscan, Revista Billboard, Revista Rolling Stone, ABERT, e de jornais brasileiros ate Dezembro de 2019.

Espírito de uma nação, a arte sofreu impactos severos ao longo da pandemia. Os artistas, mais ainda: de uma hora para a outra, o espaço de trabalho de milhares de músicos, atores e dançarinos brasileiros simplesmente desapareceu. Só na área musical, o Escritório de Arrecadação e Distribuição de direitos autorais (Ecad) calcula que uma média de 6 mil eventos musicais ou com música mecânica por mês "desapareceram" no Brasil. Mesmo para pessoas que têm a criatividade como ponto forte está difícil, às vezes impossível, encontrar maneiras de seguir em frente na profissão e pagar as contas. É sobre as dificuldades e os malabarismos que estes profissionais vêm fazendo, que vamos falar no Panorama Analisa desta semana. Conversamos com o cantor da banda porto-alegrense Os Horácios, Tiago Horácio, e com a iluminadora, atriz e diretora Nadja Naira.

A Segunda Seção do Superior Tribunal de Justiça fixou a tese de que a disponibilização de equipamentos para transmissão de obras musicais, literomusicais e audiovisuais em quarto de hotel, motel e estabelecimentos similares permite a cobrança de direitos autorais pelo Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição, o Ecad. O colegiado também estabeleceu que a contratação, por essas empresas, de serviço de TV por assinatura não impede o Ecad de cobrar direitos autorais, não havendo, nessas hipóteses, o chamado bis in idem. Com a definição das teses, poderão ter andamento os processos que estavam suspensos em todo o país à espera do precedente qualificado. O relator, ministro Antonio Carlos Ferreira, explicou que a Lei 9.610/1998 ampliou os contornos do fato gerador para a cobrança de direitos autorais, incluindo em seu espectro a utilização de processos como a radiodifusão ou a transmissão por qualquer modalidade e abarcando hotéis e motéis, sem excluir do conceito de local de frequência coletiva nenhuma parte ou cômodo específico do estabelecimento. Em relação à possibilidade de caracterização de dupla cobrança dos direitos autorais no caso de contratação de canais de TV por assinatura, o ministro ressaltou que o colegiado da Terceira Turma fez distinção dos fatos geradores que viabilizam o lançamento da cobrança contra o hotel e também contra a empresa prestadora do serviço a cabo. O magistrado lembrou que a discussão tinha relação com os direitos autorais devidos em virtude não da transmissão ou da retransmissão das obras de terceiros, mas, sim, da captação e consequente execução do conteúdo transmitido em local reconhecido como de frequência coletiva.

Första avsnittet i serien Best of Hur Kan Vi? handlar om Narkotika. Navid talar med Wally Johnson som då var aktiv med filmen Mary and I, Erik Leijonmarck som är Generalsekreterare för ECAD (European Cities Against Drugs), Paradise Hotel- och Ex on the beach-deltagaren Arvid Stenbäcken som berättar om sin personliga relation till narkotika samt Filip Bromberg som är Generalsekreterare för Nätverket för Psykedelisk Vetenskap. Lyssna på avsnitt #34 med Wally Johnson: https://play.acast.com/s/hurkanvi/d8c9d9b5-78ed-402c-9137-2514f7cd61d9 Följ Wally Johnson på instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wallyjohnsons/ Lyssna på avsnitt #41 med Erik Leijonmarck: https://play.acast.com/s/hurkanvi/46ac7a33-8d7a-4a23-83ef-f369e528bcf2 Läs mer om ECAD: http://www.ecad.net Lyssna på avsnitt #61 med Arvid Stenbäcken: https://play.acast.com/s/hurkanvi/1d445a83-9733-497c-a04c-9e5ee78e06cc Följ Arvid Stenbäcken på instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arvidvs/ Lyssna på avsnitt #128 med Filip Bromberg: https://play.acast.com/s/hurkanvi/e7de315d93b3e0b6d9c322571b214136 Läs mer om Nätverket för Psykedelisk Vetenskap: https://www.psykedeliskvetenskap.org Läs mer om Osmond Labs: https://www.osmondlabs.org Bli Patreon och stötta Hur kan vi? med valfri summa per månad på www.patreon.com/hurkanvi Gillar du det Hur kan vi? gör och vill stötta med en engångssumma, swisha till 123 124 77 33. Följ Hur kan vi? på sociala medier: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hurkanvi/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/36hHqcS Följ Navid på sociala medier: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/navidmodiriofficial/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/modiri_navid Alla avsnitt av podden och kontaktuppgifter hittar du på https://www.hurkanvi.se.

MEP EP#253: Benjamin Jordan of AutodeskBenjamin Jordan A Computer Systems and PCB Engineer with over 25 years of experience in embedded systems, FPGA, and PCB design Is an avid tinkerer and is passionate about the creation of electronic devices of all kinds Holds a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honors from the University of Southern Queensland Currently Senior Product Manager for ECAD in Autodesk Fusion 360, and 16 years prior with Altium Recently licensed HAM radio operator Call Sign? Lots of Ham radio operators that listen to the podcast Do you still build and design PCBs? What EDA Tool do you use? History in the industry Eagle and Fusion 360 How they integrate Is the plan to change the name to Fusion PCB? Eventually one program? Layout from inside of fusion? The Future Of Eagle? Any juicy news? Trends in the EDA tools Twitter @jordanyte YouTube Schematica

Reportagem Especial da Rádio Senado faz homenagem a Edeor de Paula, compositor de “Os Sertões”  “24 versos – Os Sertões de Edeor de Paula” traz a última entrevista do compositor de um dos maiores sambas da história vencedor do Estandarte de Ouro de 1976 Em um reunião da CPI do ECAD em 2011, no Rio de Janeiro, um senhor tímido, negro, ocupou o fundo da sala para assistir a toda aquela discussão. Quando o compositor João Roberto Kelly fazia seus apontamentos notou a presença daquele senhor. Era Edeor de Paula. João Roberto logo interrompeu a fala e pediu uma salva de palmas para Edeor. Mas quem era Edeor de Paula? Qual a sua importância para a história do samba brasileiro? A Rádio Senado apresenta na Reportagem Especial “24 versos”, entrevistas exclusivas com pesquisadores e sambistas para apresentar a saga de Edeor de Paula na elaboração de um samba-enredo sempre classificado entre os maiores da história: Os Sertões, defendido pela escola de samba Em Cima da Hora em 1976. Você vai ouvir histórias contadas pelo próprio Edeor em sua última entrevista. E vai entender por que um samba que conseguiu condensar em 24 versos as centenas de páginas do clássico de Euclides da Cunha é considerado uma das grandes músicas de carnaval da história.   Capítulo 1 – Uma obra prima Em Cima da Hora Edeor de Paula já havia escrito diversas músicas mas ainda faltava conquistar um sonho: ser autor de um samba-enredo de uma grande escola. A chance surgiu em 1975, na escolha do samba da Em Cima da Hora para 1976. O tema era o livro “Os Sertões” e a disputa seria dura. Capítulo 2 – 24 versos Seria possível condensar as centenas de páginas escritas por Euclides da Cunha para narrar a Guerra de Canudos em apenas 24 versos. E fazer isso com qualidade? Edeor fez e criou uma obra prima. Capítulo 3 – O dilúvio de 76 A empolgação com o samba, um dos melhores da forte safra de 1976, animou a Em Cima da Hora. A escola de Cavalcanti queria estar entre as primeira. Porém, veio o dilúvio. Capítulo 4 – A redenção de 2014 Quase quatro décadas depois da decepção de 1976, Os Sertões voltava a ser cantado pelos componentes da Em Cima da Hora em um desfile oficial. O resultado seria diferente dessa vez? Capítulo 5 – Compositor rima com Edeor Apesar do sucesso de “Os Sertões” Edeor de Paula vivia uma vida simples. Muitos compositores populares encontram dificuldades para garantir o sustento a partir das músicas que fizeram, obras muitas vezes regravadas por dezenas de artistas.

Dr David Crenshaw of the Children’s Home Of Poughkeepsie joins Colleen & Dr Jim for a lively discussion about the various ways his organization uses facility dogs. He shares how their facility dogs have used their problem solving skills to support, comfort, and a good laugh. Also, Jim provides a lot of insight into why problem solving is so important for the dogs chosen to serve.    Episode Highlights  1:37 - David shares how Dr Jim’s work has impacted his efforts 2:15 - Meet Dr David Crenshaw of the Children's Home Of Poughkeepsie  4:40 - The specialized programs they offer 5:30 - Nuevas Alas serving immigrant children 6:45 - Safe Harbour program for youth sex trafficking victims 7:45 - Group Emergency Foster Care for siblings 9:00 - Navigating the campus of services 10:00 - David finds Courthouse Dogs Foundation 14:00 - Rosie from ECAD works with 2 children 17:00 - David’s observations of Rosie’s impact 20:15 - Jim reflects on the past 10 years of  adoption of facility dog programs 24:20 - The importance of problem solving skills in these dogs 28:10 - The current projects Jim is working on the science of play 30:00 - Rosie is reunited with Dale but continues to show up 31:00 - An example of the work Rosie did in court 34:15 - The transition of facility dogs 37:30 - Gentle soft touch to the dogs provides healing to the children 38:45 - Benefiting from establishing boundaries 41:00 - Teens working with Ace the labrador 44:30 - Our connection to the animals  45:30 - Calming comfort through all areas of life 48:00 - Letter exchange with Ace 50:50 - Elvis the approachable one  51:45 - Marshall working with the Safe Harbour program 53:15 - Facility dogs supporting all of those in this process 54:30 - Intuitive problem solving the dogs inherently have 55:00 - Hilarious problem solving example 58:00 - Knowing where the facility dogs will serve best  1:01:30 - What a bark or howl is telling a handler 1:02:30 - Colleen shares how Russel was impacted by pain of a person 1:04:45 -  Rosie goes to college & Jim tells us how dogs sense their stress Links To References Children’s Home Of Poughkeepsie  ECAD - Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities This episode is marked explicit due to the nature of some of the topics discussed. 

Especialmente os produtores estão irritados com o Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição, o ECAD. O escritório está apresentando a conta relativa aos direitos autorais nas lives musicais, e quer cobrar 10%, inclusive de eventos passados. Isso acendeu um sinal amarelo tanto entre grandes artistas e produtores quanto entre os menores, que fazem seus eventos para comprar o almoço do dia seguinte ou para ajudar entidades assistenciais. Este foi o tema do bate-papo desta terça-feira 28 com os advogados Higor Paz e Matheus Patrício, do podcast "Um Leão Por Dia". Higor e Matheus explicam pra quem vai o dinheiro, se a distribuição é auditada, o tratamento isonômico entre grandes e pequenos e a importância de respeitar os direitos autorais e o trabalho de todos os envolvidos na atividade. Imagem de danielsadler por Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jornalismo-de-vanguarda--aqui/message

Bia Ramsthaler traz à pauta assuntos polêmicos que estão sendo discutidos no campo cultural por conta do ‘novo normal' que a pandemia do coronavírus está nos obrigando a repensar: como fica a democratização de acesso à cultural? E a arte que é feita online, é arte? É justo o ECAD querer cobrar os direitos autorais das lives? Essas e outras questões são debatidas nesse episódio com Dinho Santoz e tOn Miranda. Ficha Técnica | apresentação e roteiro: tOn Miranda, Bia Ramsthaler e Dinho Santoz | edição: Fred Cunha | colaboradores: Thais Brito e Vitor Luz | coprodução: Produtora WB | produção e realização: Canal Diversão & Arte.

Co-founder and leading service dog trainer Lu Picard from ECAD (Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities), and professor and medical health care expert Joanne Singleton, PhD, from Pace University stop in talk about their groundbreaking new programs, Paws and Breathe and Canines Assisting in Health. Lu and Joanne give Marcie and Lovey the inside scoop on how these programs were created, how they are impacting stress relief for dogs and their handlers, and how they are changing the way medical professionals interact with people with disabilities and their service dogs. Lu also shares some of the exciting work ECAD dogs are doing throughout the country. Listen in to find out how you and your dog can sign up for one of their free online Paws and Breathe classes EPISODE NOTES: Paws and Breathe!

Passando a Limpo: O deputado federal Felipe Carreras (PSB-PE) afirmou que vai continuar debatendo as questões de direitos autorais no Brasil e que vai cobrar mais transparência do Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD). Carreras virou o centro da discussão do assunto após discutir com a cantora Anitta em uma live no Instagram sobre a pauta na noite de terça-feira (5). O secretário de Defesa Social de Pernambuco (SDS-PE), Antônio de Pádua, também falou ao programa que o número de crimes contra o patrimônio diminuíram no mês de abril. A bancada de terça-feira (12) foi composta por Maria Luiza Borges, Romualdo de Souza e Wagner Gomes.

Passando a Limpo: O deputado federal Felipe Carreras (PSB-PE) afirmou que vai continuar debatendo as questões de direitos autorais no Brasil e que vai cobrar mais transparência do Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD). Carreras virou o centro da discussão do assunto após discutir com a cantora Anitta em uma live no Instagram sobre a pauta na noite de terça-feira (5). O secretário de Defesa Social de Pernambuco (SDS-PE), Antônio de Pádua, também falou ao programa que o número de crimes contra o patrimônio diminuíram no mês de abril. A bancada de terça-feira (12) foi composta por Maria Luiza Borges, Romualdo de Souza e Wagner Gomes.

Work from Anywhere. Connect with Anyone. Altium 365 is here, and its CAD-aware approach to cloud-based design is already cutting lead times down by orders of magnitude. How will this affect designers, and how will it affect the electronics industry as a whole? Leigh Gawne, Chief Software Architect at Altium 365, answers these questions and more. Get an exclusive look inside the impact Altium 365 is having on the electronics industry and learn more about this powerful new tool. Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: Up until this point, ECAD has been confined to the desktop. Leigh explains how Altium 365 breaks this trend, allowing anyone with an internet-enabled device to interact and collaborate in the design process—directly from a web browser. No download necessary: Altium 365 ditches the software download for manufacturers and other stakeholders. Is the Google Drive comparison accurate? Leigh demonstrates how Altium 365’s approach to ‘CAD-awareness’ pushes its capabilities far beyond the reach of ordinary cloud-based design tools. Is this design manufacturable? Resolving essential questions with the click of a button in Altium 365, allowing designers to instantly share designs as a live view or as a snapshot. Never lose a comment thread again. Leigh explains how Altium 365’s ‘contextual commenting’ feature allows designers to attach comment threads right to relevant features in the design. Customers, procurement personnel, and project management: How Altium 365 facilitates seamless interaction with secondary stakeholders. Altium 365’s option for browser-driven design review minimizes mistakes and pulls more stakeholders into the chain.  Supply chains are dynamic and are often subject to radical, unexpected changes, especially in a pandemic. Leigh breaks down Altium 365’s “baked-in” Octopart capability, which allows designers to monitor their supply chains in real-time.   Navigating the ‘new normal’: Leigh examines Altium 365’s important and powerful role for product design in the post-coronavirus age. Out the door in 30 days: Reviewing Altium 365’s integral role in the Open Source Ventilator Project’s incredible success story.  Success all around: How Altium 365 makes it trivial to duplicate another company’s achievements. Leigh looks at the future of the electronics in the wake of this powerful new tool. Links and Resources: Exclusive Sharable Listener Discount LinkAltium Designer-Altium 365Altium 365 Customer Stories Videos: Skyship, Arduino, Project MarchAltium 365 WebpageAltium 365 LIVE Demo from AltiumLive 2019 with Leigh GawneOpen Source Ventilator Podcast with Dugan Karnazes    Now you can get the ultimate PCB design productivity with the easiest platform for PCB design. Easily communicate design changes to your team with Altium 365.  Work from Anywhere. Connect with Anyone.

Neste episódio, recebemos novamente Marcelo Castello Branco, CEO da UBC (União Brasileira dos Compositores) e também Chairman da CISAC, a Confederação Internacional de Sociedades de Autores e Compositores, para debater os primeiros impactos da pandemia do Coronavírus no recolhimento e pagamento pelo ECAD da Execução Pública de música, os primeiros sinais de como lançamentos de música em streaming serão afetados, as primeiras ações das gravadoras, distribuidoras, artistas e sociedades que distribuem esses direitos, e muito mais. Não deixe de nos contar o que pensa dos episódios: conecte-se conosco pelo nosso Instagram e sugira temas também que gostaria de ver ou dúvidas que tenha: https://www.instagram.com/fastforwardpodcast/

Muitas pessoas acreditam que apenas artistas com nome mais conhecido no cenário nacional lucram com direito autoral. Mas, em 2018, o Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (Ecad) distribuiu R$ 971 milhões em direitos autorais, sendo que aproximadamente 66% do valor total foi repassado para o repertório nacional. Em relação a 2017, houve um aumento de 25% na quantidade de beneficiários, indo de 259 mil para mais de 326 mil compositores, intérpretes, músicos, editoras e gravadoras remuneradas. Se ainda não ficou claro, o desconhecimento ao redor desse assunto só leva a informalidade, a desprofissionalização e também, e é claro, a perda na geração de receita. Então, como pode o artista, desde sempre, implantar a busca por rendimento através desse segmento? Hoje vamos desmitificar todas as siglas, conceitos e cálculos que permeiam o mundo do direito autoral e facilitar a compreensão de todos os processos para você, ouvinte, não ficar com nenhuma dúvida e começar a, de fato, valorizar, profissionalizar e formalizar sua atuação no mercado, reivindicando seus direitos e gerando receita a partir de seus trabalhos. --------------------------------------------------------Vem conhecer a gente!Instagram: @_saladeestar_Facebook: Sala de Estar Youtube: Sala de Estar--------------------------------------------------------Equipe Sala de EstarEdição: Raphael PerezFinalização de Áudio: Victor Nery Pauta: Isabella Guimarães, Giuliano Lagonegro, Raphael Perez, Carolina Hallack, Pedro ValdetaroPublicação: Isabella Guimarães Capa: Sofia Tegoshi

Músicas comerciais são patrimônios de quem as cria. Afinal, é permitido usá-las livremente ou não? E qual o papel do ECAD nessa história? Abordamos este tema em dois podcasts. Esta é a segunda parte do programa. Apresentação: Cassio Politi. Convidado: Jean Caristina. Perfil do Jean Caristina no LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina/. Site Intervalo Legal: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/. Podcast Consumo e Mercado: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/category/podcast/. Música de encerramento: 'Carimbador Maluco' (Raul Seixas). Para participar do grupo do Comunique-se no Telegram e acessar o podcast em múltiplas plataforma, o link é este: https://www.podcast-se.com.br/.

Músicas comerciais são patrimônios de quem as cria. Afinal, é permitido usá-las livremente ou não? E qual o papel do ECAD nessa história? Abordamos este tema em dois podcasts. Esta é a segunda parte do programa. Apresentação: Cassio Politi. Convidado: Jean Caristina. Perfil do Jean Caristina no LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina/. Site Intervalo Legal: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/. Podcast Consumo e Mercado: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/category/podcast/. Música de encerramento: 'Carimbador Maluco' (Raul Seixas). Para participar do grupo do Comunique-se no Telegram e acessar o podcast em múltiplas plataforma, o link é este: https://www.podcast-se.com.br/.

Músicas comerciais são patrimônios de quem as cria. Afinal, é permitido usá-las livremente ou não? E qual o papel do ECAD nessa história? Abordamos este tema em dois podcasts. Esta é a primeira parte do programa. Apresentação: Cassio Politi. Convidado: Jean Caristina. Perfil do Jean Caristina no LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina/. Site Intervalo Legal: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/. Podcast Consumo e Mercado: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/category/podcast/. Música de encerramento: 'Conquista do Espelho' (Engenheiros do Havaí). Para participar do grupo do Comunique-se no Telegram e acessar o podcast em múltiplas plataforma, o link é este: https://www.podcast-se.com.br/. Canal Papo Influente no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/papoinfluente.

Músicas comerciais são patrimônios de quem as cria. Afinal, é permitido usá-las livremente ou não? E qual o papel do ECAD nessa história? Abordamos este tema em dois podcasts. Esta é a primeira parte do programa. Apresentação: Cassio Politi. Convidado: Jean Caristina. Perfil do Jean Caristina no LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancaristina/. Site Intervalo Legal: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/. Podcast Consumo e Mercado: http://www.intervalolegal.com.br/category/podcast/. Música de encerramento: 'Conquista do Espelho' (Engenheiros do Havaí). Para participar do grupo do Comunique-se no Telegram e acessar o podcast em múltiplas plataforma, o link é este: https://www.podcast-se.com.br/. Canal Papo Influente no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/papoinfluente.

Você com certeza já se deparou com alguma discussão sobre Direitos Autorais, certo? Volta e meia esse assunto vem à tona com uma parcela dos artistas que vai contra e outra à favor da forma como os valores provenientes do uso de suas obras são distribuidos e de como esse processo pode ser burocrático.O famoso ECAD – Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição é o órgão responsável por desenvolver esse papel, porém existem uma série especulações a respeito da eficácia da regras que são impostas aos artistas e aos próprios consumidores. Isso mesmo! Você, querido ouvinte, podcaster, músico ou dono de bar e casas de shows pode estar infringindo as leis dos Direitos Autorais sem ao menos ter ciência disso. Por isso, João Paulo (@jpgomiero) e Henrique Machado (@hredsm), trouxeram Caio Lívio novamente neste episódio para baterem um papo sobre tudo o que você precisa saber a respeito de direitos autorais dentro da música.

Mark Ross is a long-time Altium Beta user and our guest in this podcast episode to share his insights and the value he gets from being a Beta user. He also chimes in on a long list of questions about what he thinks of Altium Designer 20. He gets into the details on this latest release of Altium Designer and what sets it apart from other eCAD packages, the most significant new feature, and - are there any designs the tool can’t handle? Listen in, read the notes, or watch the video below to find out. Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock Savings on Altium Designer today! Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: At age seven Mark took apart his first CB radio, setting the tone for what would become a lucrative career. He has now been designing circuit boards for 32 years. Beginning with Protel Easytrax, he progressed and moved on to other tools. When Altium acquired Accel in 2000, Mark moved over to Altium Designer®, which he has been using ever since. Mark has been designing power products for Progressive Dynamics, the market leader in RV Power conversion, for almost five years. Before joining their team, their products were exclusively through-hole technology, and he was in charge of converting everything to surface mount. Some of their challenges were directly related to 3D capability, and Altium was extremely helpful with component collisions and UL spacing. With the help of Altium Designer, Mark designs a new circuit board every two weeks and does a product revision once a week. Q: “How long have you been a Beta User for Altium?”A: “Since 2015, and I am a firm believer in it. I believe there is a big disconnect with CAD software users in general, but Altium gives me the opportunity to provide feedback.” Q: “How has that experience been for you and what benefits do you see in keeping at it through almost five releases?”A: “Firstly, employability—things change so rapidly, you have to stay updated. Also, when our company starts using the latest update, I can help my colleagues, which is very beneficial.” Q: “You’ve worked with Altium Designer well in advance of its release, what is your honest opinion of the significance of Altium Designer 20 compared to some of our previous releases?”A: “Well I was one of the vocal guys stuck with Altium Designer 17. I did Beta on AD18 and 19 but just couldn’t afford to take the time to learn the new tools fully while also doing my work. When I started using AD20, coming from 17 to 20, 97% of the time, I don’t notice it anymore, the user interface is much smoother and the ease of use is back.” Q: “What are your top three favorite new features of AD20?” A: “The interactive router is absolutely amazing...it’s really helping us to make last-minute changes about 40% faster, plus the user interface, and there’s much more. Also, the 3D rendering engine is phenomenal compared to what it was.” Q: “What’s your opinion on the stability of AD20 and what is the impact on your day-to-day?” A: Even on the Beta I’ve noticed that it’s pretty stable, overall I have not had the system crashes that I’ve seen in the past.”  Q: “How would you compare the interactive routing and any dramatic changes in AD20 to AD17?”A:  “The router is amazing, I highly recommend that everyone go to this section of the presentation; the way the router works now is absolutely amazing especially or me typically dealing with 40 to 60 rules—I can get a lot more packed in because of the way the router can now hug around a pad, once you see it, you’ll be blown away.” Q: “If you could pick only one thing that has improved your daily design flow, what is the #1 new thing?”A: “Other than the router, we’re seriously starting to look at ACTIVEBOM® because that gives us a pulse on the way the industry is going.” Q: “Not to be redundant—specific to time savings—you just went from 32-bit to 64-bit, which is a huge time saving, but besides that, what is your biggest time saver?”A: “Again, for us, it’s the router.” Q: “What do you feel may not have been addressed in Altium 20?”A: “I haven’t seen anything in our industry, for the way we use the tool—speaking with other people at AltiumLive though, it seems they are very happy with the differential pair routing improvement.”  Q: “Have you played around with the creepage, it sounds like you’re dealing with a lot of high voltage?”A: “Yes, thank you very much for that. That was one of the things that was tricky, with worrying about UL spacing, there’s creepage and clearance and we have to address both; having the tool do that for us—that’s going to save us a lot on board spins!” Q: “Have you used any other CAD tools during your career, Mike?”A: “I have used other tools, that we won’t mention, but it’s always been your tool, and honestly, everyone I’ve worked for, wanted Altium. Most of the jobs I see posted require Altium Designer experience.”  Q: “From what you’ve seen in AD20 regarding high-speed digital, do you think there are any designs that the tool can’t handle?”A: “No, I have worked with high-speed digital before, and I don’t see anything that the tool can’t handle.” Q: “Which three capabilities of Altium Designer as a CAD tool, sets it apart from other CAD packages?” A: “The router, again—I think that router is absolutely fantastic. The capabilities it has, with the 3D, is far better than anything I’ve seen on any other package, and the ACTIVEBOM is another thing where Altium always seems to be one or two steps ahead of everybody else. The other thing that is going to help with collaboration is Altium 365. It removes the disconnect between the designer and everyone else in the process.”  Q: “What made you decide to make the switch from AD17, where you’d been hanging for a while, and move onto AD20?”A: “When I got into the AD20 Beta program, I was able to start using it immediately, there’s one modal dialogue box that’s not there, but I’m not noticing any difference in the usability. I have switched over completely now.”  Q: “What has made you stay with Altium over the years?” A: “Obviously the price point, you guys don’t nickel and dime us. The ability to go on and off maintenance while your software stays intact is very helpful, and you guys are very stable. Also, the fact that you continue to improve the tool.”       Links and Resources: Interactive router (video of any angle routing on Linkedin)See What’s Coming in Altium Designer 20   Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock Savings on Altium Designer today!

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Erik Leijonmarck författare till Droghandboken, guide för föräldrar och andra nyfikna svarar på frågan om det finns några framgångsrecept för att få ungdomar att inte använda droger. Erik är generalsekreterare för ECAD (European cities against drugs) och har erfarenhet av  drogpreventivt arbete i och utanför Sverige.  

Jeroen Leinders is global eCADSTAR Solutions Leader and Chris Hambleton is engineering general manager at Zuken. In the past few weeks, Zuken announced a new platform called eCADStar. They provide an overview of the embedded browser, new touchscreen interface, and collaboration features of the new mainstream ECAD platform.  

Lawrence Romine, VP of Marketing for Altium, is here to discuss the release of Altium Concord Pro and it’s aim to provide a fresh approach to library and component management. Romine describes the modern, streamlined experience that reduces context switching, keeps communication in sync and enables an information flow that dramatically improves workflow, productivity and accuracy. We also talk about Altium Designer 19.1, what that includes and what you can expect from this performance-based release. Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today! Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: Lawrence started his career in electronics like most of us. His father was an EE and since the age of ten, he knew what he wanted to do - it was always engineering. His career of 20 years has evolved through the selling or business-end of engineering. He started in design with a particular interest in Audio at McCormick Audio from where he became involved in the semiconductor business working for Insight Electronics, selling and supporting Xilinx. In his search for more involvement with software, he joined Altium where he’s had a varied career over the last 15 years. What is Concord Pro? A library and component on-premise solution that works with Altium Designer and includes the MCAD collaboration capabilities which support Solidworks, PTC, Prio, and Autodesk Inventor.  Concord Pro is very simple; it’s focused on library and component management to include an on-premise server.  How is Concord Pro different to Vault, NEXUS and NEXUS Server? NEXUS Server is a rebrand of Vault, and the aim was for it to become a regulated ‘or gated’ design process. It made sense at the time to consolidate Vault under the NEXUS umbrella. Define the NEXUS ‘Channel’: NEXUS is a process-oriented solution, not a product, comprising configurable off-the-shelf modules; that Altium Configures and deploys on the customer’s premises with a joint agreement on the outcome - it’s applicable across the board; irrespective of the size of the company. A good example of successful deployment is in a smaller medical device manufacturer, which has a rigorous process to which they must adhere.   Why was there a change from Vault to NEXUS? Customer surveys about library management confirmed that elements of NEXUS Server didn’t truly fit the profile of customers in the traditional Altium Designer Channel. Everyone has a need for reliable library and component management which considers supply chain information, ideally during the design phase but it doesn’t mean they need full lifecycle approval capabilities or to enforce any rigor in the design process itself, for example, gating of approval processes. These elements have been removed from Concord Pro, to make it more streamlined for the majority of users.  What happens to Vault and Nexus Server users now? For current subscribers, it’s a free, painless move to Concord Pro. If you’re not using TC2 or the lifecycle approval process, all you need to do is update your existing product.  For those that are using TC2 and lifecycle approval capabilities - just keep doing what you’re doing. Vault and Nexus will be maintained but not added to or sold individually going forward. Features will, however, be added to Concord pro. How does the ECAD-MCAD integration work? With Altium Concord Pro, we have a bi-directional push-pull arrangement with Concord Pro as the intermediary. So, you can make changes in one environment or the other, be it ECAD or MCAD - and the genesis of those designs can start in one domain or the other and push those changes into the other environment. As soon as an engineer emails a file, it’s no longer the most recent version, because they continue designing - check out the Concord Pro Page. What many engineers and designers are creating and calling a Bill of Materials is indeed a parts list. What Concord Pro brings to the table is enabling users to create a Bill of Materials as they go and this applies to everyone. Do take advantage of the 60-day evaluation offer on Concord Pro. Moving beyond Concord Pro, what’s on the horizon for Altium? We want to continue our aggressive growth and enhance the capabilities of our tool as our users are requesting.  We are releasing Altium Designer 19.1 with a significant focus on engagement with the customer across the board where our customers congregate. There are significant investments in the stability and performance of the product. We listen to the customers and address what they tell us they need. We will continue to give our users a stake in the product and give them a voice. We are also looking towards the next 3D.  What initiatives does Altium have in regards to raising the game on BugCrunch? We definitely listen to BugCrunch. We prioritize our action according to the number of votes received.  We are paying attention, our developers are addressing a large number of issues daily. We will do more regarding responding or communicating to the users because a user’s perception is their reality.  BugCrunch participation is not overwhelming; we need to inform users that it is their voice, and we need to do better with acknowledging and engaging the user.   Shout out to Kelly in Salt Lake City - the largest Altium Designer user group, who are voting collectively to get their votes to the top of the priority list. What keeps you here personally? I’m still here because I chose this career path, business is about sales and marketing, which is ultimately about the narrative - the story - and this is a hell of a story. People are better off at the end of the process.  We put out a solid product and we have a great ‘why’. We focus on the user first, we engage bottom-up and it’s working really well. Our sales process is unique - we believe that the user is the decision maker. Links and Resources: Podcast with John WatsonConcord Pro PageConcord Pro TutorialsDo Smaller Companies Need Data Management? PodcastAltium BugCrunch Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today!

Kyle Miller is Zuken's manager of Lightning, Design Force and related routing technology. He has a doctorate in artificial intelligence, and is heading Zuken's efforts into applying AI and machine learning to develop next-generation PCB placement and routing. He speaks with PCB Chat's Mike Buetow from Zuken Innovation World, where he gave a presentation on the progress of AI in ECAD, and why designers shouldn't fear for their jobs.

No episódio de hoje Danilo Fernandes convida mais uma vez Cíntia Pudim (Pudimcast) e Emerson Almeida (Megafono) para falarem sobre a Associação Brasileira de Podcasters. E na tentativa de sanar todas as dúvidas, o terceiro convidado deste episódio é o primeiro presidente e membro fundador da ABPod: o internacional Maestro Billy!   Se você não ouviu o episódio 51, onde falamos sobre os percalços que fizeram a diretoria da ABPod desistir do projeto, recomendo que faça isso primeiro porque hoje nós vamos falar sobre a experiência profissional do Maestro Billy, as razões para a ABPod existir, os detalhes sobre o funcionamento do ECAD e, principalmente, como os ouvintes e produtores podem ajudar a ABPod a ser melhor. Escute agora!   Twitter:   http://twitter.com/dofsmartins http://twitter.com/comequepod   Instagram:   http://instagram.com/dofsmartins http://instagram.com/comequepod   Links comentados:   Episódio #51 sobre a ABPod (link) Site da ABPod (link)

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To learn more about MCAD Collaboration and Co-Design described in this episode check out the on-demand webinar and other resources listed below. On-Demand Webinar: Electro-mechanical Co-design for Competitive Advantage White Paper: Bridging the Gap Between ECAD and MCAD Domains to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Electronic Product Design Datasheet: PADS MCAD Collaboration Did you know that today’s best-in-class companies are getting their electronics products to market faster by implementing synchronized ECAD/MCAD data exchange and co-design advantages in their design flow? In this special “After the Webinar” podcast series we answer the questions submitted during our recent live webinar event presenting how PADS Professionals’ MCAD Collaborator and co-design functionality breaks down the barriers between PCB design and mechanical design domains, accelerates time-to-market, eliminates design respins and reduces product cost. Have questions or topics of interest? Interested in being a guest on the show? Contact us at pcb_techtalk@mentor.com. Subscribe today so you don’t miss any future episodes!

Sometimes fancy and expensive board games are worth the money, other times they are the result of Amazon automated prices going crazy or flippers thinking they've struck gold. Another episode in the echo series of episodes from ECAD.

Sini Rytky, VP of Product Management at TactoTek, and Tuomas Heikkilä, Senior Electronics Designer, join Judy Warner on the OnTrack Podcast to talk about Injection Molded Structural Electronics, or IMSE, the integrating of electronics inside 3-dimensional electronics to create smart surfaces. TactoTek is a leading provider of solutions for 3D structural electronics, enabling the integration of printed circuitry and discrete electronic components into injection molded plastics. Listen to how TactoTek and Altium are combining forces to research and develop design rules for this entirely new technology. Learn more about this and how you can meet them at AltiumLive 2018.   To see all the show notes and VIDEO click here.      *This communication may contain forward-looking statements about strategies, products, future results, performance or achievements, financial and otherwise. These statements reflect management’s current expectations, estimates, and assumptions based on the information currently available to us. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve significant risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this communication, such as a failure to add previewed functionality to our products or the potential impact on our financial results from changes in our business models.   Transcript: Hey everyone this is Judy with Altium's OnTrack podcast. Thanks for joining again. I have two amazing guests hailing all the way from Finland today and I look forward to sharing them with you. Before then I ask you to please connect with me on LinkedIn, on Twitter I'm @AltiumJudy and Altium is on all the traditional social media channels Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. So today we have a look into the future of technology with TactoTek and I have two wonderful guests, Sini Rytky and Tuomas Heikkilä. So we've been working here at Altium closely with Sini, Tuomas and their whole team there and we are excited to show you, kind of this cutting-edge technology, and the amazing things that they're doing in Finland to advance a whole litany of advanced electronics manufacturing and technology and while we continue to work feverishly on AD19 and getting in the traditional functions that you would like, I wanted to give you a sneak peek on something more for the future. This is not going to be in AD19, but we continue to work together, sort of on a research kind of function, with these two and all of TactoTek. So I'm excited for you to learn more about them - so let's get started. Sini, Tuomas, welcome. Thank you Judy for having us here. So Sini, I think I'm going to start with you. Can you tell us a little - well before we get going, why don't you both introduce yourselves and tell us your background in the industry and what exactly your role entails at TactoTek? Sure, so my name is Sini Rytky and I'm heading the Product Management at TactoTek. In practice it means that my team is responsible for technology productization and roadmapping and go to market strategy and planning. And also technology partnership development. My personal background: I am a Software Major, but spent about 20 years in mostly hardware driven business. In electronics  manufacturing and test automation in consumer electronics and automotive industries. It is my first podcast ever - I'm very excited! How about you Tuomas? Okay so my name is Tuomas Heikkilä and I'm the Senior Hardware Specialist and I have worked for TactoTek, for almost six years now. All of this time I have designed and developed. I oversee technology from an electronics point of view. So my background: I have worked also in the mobile phone industry before joining TactoTek. Along those lines Tuomas, can you tell us about - for those that aren't familiar what the acronym IMSE means? IMSE means Injection Molded Structural Electronics. Very good because I know we'll be using that term a lot and because you guys are sort of cutting-edge I thought there's maybe some people in the audience that might not be familiar with that term. So Sini, let's just jump right in. Can you talk about - I'm asking you three really big things: the technology, the market, and really the problems it solves for technologists in the marketplace? Sure to start off with the technology; like Tuomas said, our technology is called Injection Molded Structural Electronics which we call IMSE. To put it simply in one sentence, we are integrating electronics inside three-dimensional plastics, and as a result we can create smart surfaces with electronic functionality such as capacitive touch functions, illuminated icons and wireless connectivity such as Bluetooth and near-field communication. So when we look at traditional electro-mechanics assembly, they typically consist of one, or a multi PCB structure along with the surrounding mechanics and from a design point of view the challenge is that many times it is restricted with, for example, dimensional constraints or space limitations or weight limitations. And then from a manufacturing point of view; they typically have a large number of individual toolings and assembly phases. So with IMSE we can solve many of the problems for traditional electronics and mechanics, but we can also create totally new use cases and integrate electronics in places where traditional electronics and mechanics fail to do so. So, if we just briefly visit our process. We start by printing colored and conductive inks on flexible films, and continue by mounting surface mounted electronic components and continue by forming that film along with the components into a three-dimensional shape. And then finally, we injection mold all of that into a single piece assembly. So when we look at the benefits the IMSE part structure - if we compare it with traditional electronics and mechanics - we can save up to, I'd say, 90% of the assembly depth, save up to... Wow! -yeah that's a big number. That's a big number yeah, and up to 80% of the part weight and at the same time, of course, we're enabling beautiful, seamless, smart surfaces and we can create - we talk a lot about point of views at TactoTek, and by that we mean, that IMSE enables intuitive user interfaces. So no longer do we have to have a complex HMI with all of the centralized functions, but we can create point of view functionalities. So for example, integrating capacitive touch enabled volume control on top of speaker modules. So those are some of the - let's say challenges and benefits, that we've seen. And then when we look at the market, so obviously, this is a cross-industry technology, so there's -  we see a lot of benefits from various industries. A very common application for IMSE is a human machine interface and we are currently working, for example, with the automotive segment; creating for example door trims and overhead control panels, appliances control panels, and we also work quite a lot with variables. So creating electronics in textiles... Oh wow. -yeah and that's actually... I actually didn't know you were doing wearables, or that had escaped me in previous conversations, that's amazing! Yes, yeah-yeah so the fact actually, that we are injection molding everything into a single part assembly, it also means that it's fully encapsulated, which means it's protected from debris and moisture. So yeah, so definitely when you think about electronics in fabrics our structures - we call wash and go, so they are very durable, and they can withstand like dozens of cycles and washing machines. Wow. Yeah, yeah. And then maybe a couple of words about the business model. So we are licensing our technology for IMSE design manufacturing and validation. Which means that our customers, they can both benefit from the possibilities that IMSE creates in product design, but they can also enhance the vertical integration in a way that they can perform functions, that were previously outsourced, and further extend their offering for customers. That's unbelievable - and I can - - my mind is just spinning with the kind of enablers that I can see, that this is going to bring over time. So thank you for sharing all that. On a more practical level, Tuomas and you know, the people who are listening to this podcast are typically engineers and printed circuit board designers. Can you talk a little bit about the kind of practical effects on PCB designers and the implications they would have, from a design standpoint, in designing what you're calling smart structures? Yes. So if we first compare traditional PCB design and IMSE design there are few main differences which come from materials that we are using in IMSE technology and also the 3D shape. So if we first consider those materials: the substrate of printed film circuitries are the difference. So in IMSE technology we have quite a large patene plastic film, and if they convert this for rigid PCP - there is a big difference. Yeah. Another thing is trace resistance. So when we are printing traces using silver inks there is always some resistance, so we can never think that this resistance is zero. Right. So we have to always consider this in our design. Of course it depends on the ink used but the typical resistance differs between printed silver ink trace and pcb solid copper trace - roughly 100 times bigger. So there is a huge difference in resistances as well. Okay. The third, which is really related to materials is dielectric. In PCBs there is no need to design, especially dielectrics, between two conductive traces but in IMSE design we need always to design a dielectric layer between two conductive layers and also, as I earlier mentioned, this 3D surface - I would like to highlight this as well - because it means that when the final shape of the product is somewhat kind of the correct 3D shape. This means that the printed circuit would need to be designed a bit different than any PCBs. So I'm gonna ask you more about those materials in a minute. But I was really impressed when I first saw it. I really thought it was a one- or two-sided only circuit structure and I'm really impressed to find out that no, it can be multi-layer and like you said Sini, completely encapsulated, so that opens up a lot of opportunities I think. So Sini, can you talk more specifically about the materials that are used for structural electronics?  I know Tuomas just mentioned the silver inks, the dielectric materials, that you can do multi layers. Just the materials overall are really different, so can you talk a little bit about those please? Mm-hmm - yeah and I would say the key essence of our technology is really the know-how and understanding, of not just the individual materials, but the four material stack ups. So we need to, first of all, we need to obviously understand how all the elements perform together like the films, the inks, the components and so forth, and it's... As if it wasn't complicated enough; the traditional boards. -yes! So it all has to work in synergy and it's of course, it's like one thing to understand how they perform when they are in 2D, but in our case we are then also bending and stretching everything into that three-dimensional shape. So that process as a whole, has a huge effect on the material characteristics and performance values. Like Tuomas mentioned before, for example, the conductive ink resistance changes over the manufacturing period so it's a big pile of materials research and chemistry as a whole that we have done to understand the behavior of different material stack ups. So we - of course we try to be on top of what works together and of course - what doesn't. So... And so do you publish those, or will you be publishing those in the form of a datasheet, so when a PCB designer might move into this space that they'd have some guidelines? Yes. So obviously, the material stacks are one element of our licensing content. So we are able to provide our customers with validated and functional material stacks that they can use to test our building products. How long have you been at this? Because I know you work with materials and that, that is a long, arduous process. It takes a lot of discipline. Mm-hmm - yeah so we've been around since 2011 and we've used a lot of time and effort for exactly materials research, and creating the validation processes. So now we're in 2018 and we are mass manufacturable so it takes time. Yes it sure does, yeah when I've talked to friends that are chemists, it just takes a long time. So, back to you Tuomas, with all those different materials, and you mentioned also embedded components. So I would like our audience to learn more about the implications which you began to talk about - with the printed inks, the silver inks, and what not. But what are some other implications of those different materials? And what kind of components - because you're really talking about embedded components here I take it? So help us understand that a little bit more? So like Sini said, understanding materials and materials tax, those are very important. So as I earlier said, this trace resistance for example, it is a big thing. Also another example is this flexible film which are speaking back to SMD process, for example. So typically we are using small SMD components like LEDs, resistors, diodes, transistors... Traditional? -traditional yes. Oh okay. Traditional off the shelf components. But when we are selecting components on our IMSE products, the key element is the height of the component. So the component should fit inside the product, it's the first thing. The second thing is that when we are injection molding the product the melted plastic flows over the component - so the component should stand this injection molding and yes, the thinner the component the better. Okay so - and I am certain that you have to take in consideration the thermal implications of what kind of thermal conditions those components can survive in? Yes we have also considered this. So for our listeners; I just want to let you know we're gonna connect all kinds of links and pictures because if you're like me you need some visuals to really understand - this is sort of hard to do - in the form of a podcast - it's a little difficult to talk about, but again I want to remind our listeners that we are recording simultaneously on YouTube and also we're not showing visuals here but we will put up a myriad of links and photos. Because if you're like me, you need pictures okay so. Yeah actually we have a white paper regarding this. Okay. Will you share that with us Tuomas? Okay great. Yes yes. Okay. It's just in our webpage so we can share the link of course. Wonderful and the other thing that I wasn't clear about is: so you do the printed portion of the process and then you mold. It's not like you're creating it on a 3D surface right? Or does it go both ways? We first print, this is 2D, then we place the component; assembly process, after that is forming process, the film takes its 3D shape, and after that comes injection molding. This is actually the reason why we are doing this, is that we want to enable our customers to use just standard electronics manufacturing equipment. So when we are placing the components in 2D, it means that we don't have to have anything like 3D pick-and-place or anything like that - you can use standard PCB manufacturing equipment. And then you mold. Which seems so counterintuitive? I don't know how you guys are doing it. I think you're magicians so... You have to come and see it. I know - oh speaking of which also I'd like to let our listeners know that I'm delighted that Sini and TactoTek have agreed to come be a sponsor at AltiumLive they will have a booth there. They will have physical samples and you'll be able to see this and if you're like me , I think this all of a sudden aha moment happens when you can physically see - or like Tuomas said, read a white paper and you have some kind of visual representation of what's happening. And you will gasp. It's really incredible to watch so I invite you always to come to AltiumLive in San Diego or Munich and see them there. So let's jump into how Altium and TactoTek had the good fortune to come together. Sini you started to talk about a challenge you guys had to face in that, there was a gap in the design tools to support your technology so, our team have been working with you for a while so can you tell us, sort of what that process has been like and, sort of how we've been working together? Yeah, so I think for us, how we have worked so far is that, obviously we have a lot of design disciplines that contribute to the IMSE, structure not just electronics and mechanics, but also graphics design, antenna design, and illumination design. So all of those different design elements have to work in perfect synergy, because we don't have those separate structures but we only have that film and everything is on top of that one or two films. So the element that we have been missing so far in the design tools is the support of design for IMSE type of parts. So we've been using Altium Designer for years for electronic design, but we've been sort of manipulating the tool which is meant for PCB design and we are using familiar functions for something else. So today we are not just using the tool anymore but we've been very, very happy to start really working with Altium and doing research on specific features and automation we could integrate in the tools in the future to enable more efficient design process for IMSE and printed electronics as a whole. Which is so exciting to me. So if I understand you correctly, then we're really starting to develop design rules for a whole new technology? Mm-hmm - exactly and in that way obviously shortening the learning curve for new technology and bringing it to the hands of the actual end users; the designers of the products. Well I really love that you guys are using traditional mainstream tools like Altium Designer so designers, their ramp-up on the technology can be quicker and just using kind of some familiar things like a 2D manufacturing process so there's not this whole giant - there's not 20 obstacles in the way and such a learning curve, and such a huge investment, change of equipment - you've really been really thoughtful in integrating existing technology but then tweaking it. Yeah, exactly. Which is really exciting. Tuomas because you've been specifically on the hardware side; I look to you sort of as the voice of our audience. Can you talk about some specific examples in regards to things like stack up, DRC's. Can you give us some kind of down and dirty, you know, where the rubber meets the road sort of examples of how that's fleshing out? Yes. So if I first start with the stack up; currently we are using PCB layer stack up in our designs, which is not it's not pure IMSE - and this stack up, this causes challenges and generates a lot of more work when we have transferred in design files between EGIT and for example in the simulator tool. So if we have a tool where we can define IMSE stack up as it is in real products, it makes the design process even faster. Second thing is the dielectrics. So at the moment we are designing and checking dielectrics manually. It's time-consuming and there were still missing dielectrics in certain places and this caused failures during our production. This is very, very critical, so if the tool has, for example, dielectric generators, check the position for each dielectric and then place it according to user definitions, so it makes design even faster, and also makes the production more easier for us because there are no failures anymore. Along those lines - from inside of the tool, will a designer actually have helps to help them choose a specific dielectric or is that something they'll need to know ahead of time? And then those dielectric constraints will be inside the tool - or do we know yet? No we don't know yet. Okay that's a good answer. That's okay. You know, I really see from my perspective in the industry, this tighter - and the lines between mechanical you know ECAD, MCAD, all the different design disciplines. the lines are just blurring - and I think that's never more true than with your technology. I think you made the lines disappear which is exciting and so enabling! Is there anything you wanted to say about that Sini, just about the different disciplines, or specific challenges that may come into play? Because you're bringing all of these things into play? Yeah I think one very good example and Tuomas, I'm sure you are more familiar with them, is for example, a simple file transfer. So we need to be able to, first of all in IMSE, we have to be able to convert first a three-dimensional shape into a two-dimensional form. Then design electronics layout, then convert back to three-dimensional format, and during all of those processes, we need to have a file transfer mechanism that actually works in between the tools. So yah, like you said; the lines are blurring and we're excited to see how we can help in enabling this in the tools. Well I'm very excited - before we wrap up is there anything I might have missed? Thank you both for this interesting conversation, and I'll be sure to share your white paper and any links you like to share. Is there anything I may have missed, just because of my own ignorance - neglected to ask either of you about today? I don't think so, not from my side. What do you think Tuomas? No, not from my side as well. Okay, well please be sure to share as many links as you can you guys, and again - I want to encourage our listeners to look - this is one set of show notes you're going to want to look into - and click through and see really where the future of technology is going. It's very exciting and as I say, we continue to develop our agenda.  You know things like high-speed stack-up, things like that within Altium Designer 19, but in the future we hope to be able to offer the enabling technology in a future release of Altium Designer. So thank you both for your partnership and working together. It's been a delight and I also invite you again to join us at AltiumLive either in San Diego or Europe. TactoTek will be in both locations and you'll be able to get your hands on it and see and touch this amazing technology it's really going to blow your mind. So thank you Sini, thank you Tuomas, I really appreciate you - welcome to podcast land. Thank you Judy, it's very exciting. It's been a delight to have you and thank you - because I know you guys are - our hours between here and Finland are a little different. So thank you for accommodating our time frame today. So thank you again for listening to the OnTrack Podcast, we appreciate you so very much. Join us again next time. Until then remember to always stay on track!

Get Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tips from Jay Colognori, Director of Business Development at Electronic Instrumentation & Technology (EIT). DFM and Design for Assembly (DFA) are important to engineers who know you can’t just design a PCB and throw it over the wall to manufacturing. Early and proactive optimization of all the manufacturing functions from fabrication to assembly of the final system is key. Listen to Jay and Judy discuss high-yield designs, EIT’s value-added engineering services and the latest state-of-the-art inspection technology and test capability.   Show Highlights: Jay was educated at Virginia Tech where he attained an EE Degree, followed by a Master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He spent  most of his career in the mid-atlantic and his career spans from board level electronic design to applications engineering doing custom microelectronics for a couple of years, eventually ending up in PCB Design first at TTM and now at EIT. EIT has been in existence for 42 years, and specialize in electronic manufacturing services, turnkey builds, box builds, and demand fulfillment and consider their Engineering value add as part of their DNA. EIT has three facilities on the East Coast, consisting of over 200,000 sq ft. They have a facility in Danville Virginia, headquarters in Leesburg and another in Salem, New Hampshire. Altogether they have eight surface mount lines. The Danville facility is designated as the low-cost center of excellence and is also a 100% vertically integrated location - it is built for box builds. Leesburg and Salem are high-tech facilities with the latest state-of-the-art universal equipment, as well as the latest and greatest inspection technology and a full suite of test capability - with a lot going on and a story that needs to get out - it’s almost been a secret! New EIT website DFM: Bare board tips 2 objectives - 1) to design so that it can be fabricated reliably and with high yields, and 2) so that it can be assembled VM Pad requires a wrap plating process to provide a reliable button around the via. This process requires more copper which can wreak havoc with fine line design, so be sure to plan upfront and move those fine line geometries to the inner layers. Overlapping via structures can’t be made. They need to be stacked and sequential, not overlapping. Sit down with your PCB Fabricator at the time of stackup development, before you even start that router and make sure everyone’s happy with the stackup. FR4 has too high a Dk for high speed designs today and new materials such as teflon or ceramic-filled laminates are becoming more common. If you work with a new material, consult with your PCB fabricator to see how the rules have changed with that new material for the speed you desire. DFA Wisdom: Common Pads - so close together that they touch, rather than routing a thin signal from pad to pad is a common problem. We don’t want them to physically share the same space which will cause loss of control over the solder flow. Keep the pads apart and just run a small solder trace between them. The via in the pad has to be filled, it must be plated over and planarized. Sometimes the planarization isn’t done properly and even a little dimple, with a BGA on top, will cause the gas trapped beneath the solder paste, to expand ferociously and blow all the solder out of the pad at reflow. Always use non-conductive filler it’s much less expensive. The benefit of using conductive fill from a thermal point is negligible and is too expensive for the return. Thermal conductivity is defined in Wattmeters - if you use a conductive fill, you only get 6 more wattmeters which is rather pointless because the copper is already doing all the work. When a thermal via is located in a big plane, with a copper button around it - the button will be in contact with the plane and this is a big no-no. It compromises the solder flow again. Do a sprocket arrangement around that thermal via button. This will create a gap between the button and plane and sprockets simply act as traces surrounding it - very good design practice, frequently missed. Especially on backplanes with active components, this will require retooling to enable manufacturability. Why has design migrated as a service inside many EMS companies? What is the value to the customer? It’s a benefit to both the customer and the EMS. We want to do more for the customer than just assemble the circuit cards. We want projects going through without a hitch, no delays. What we all want is production of electronics. Why did EIT recently choose to onboard Altium Designer internally over other tools? Firstly it’s an all-inclusive package. It’s schematic and design, we like the ECAD and MCAD interface which makes it easy to do 3D fit models. We love the room creation capability that allows you to reuse previous designs. It has very solid DFM rules capability which are set up in advance - that’s a nice piece of insurance. It’s reasonably priced compared to the other high-end tools as well. Engineers After Hours: Big hiker, especially the Rocky Mountains. We’re going to do 3 national parks this summer. Unique hobbies? Jay has been a dart player since the age of 19. Played in a couple of US opens. Pro advice: 2-3 beers is the sweet spot for optimal dart throwing performance.   Links and Resources: EIT Electronic Instrumentation & Technology Website Jay Colognori on Linkedin EIT on Linkedin About Jay Colognori AltiumLive 2018: Annual PCB Design Summit   Hey everyone, this is Judy Warner with Altium's OnTrack podcast. Thanks for joining us again. I appreciate everyone that's following, we are spreading like wildfire and we thank you for all your comments and opinions and we always look forward to hearing about things you want to hear - so reach out to us on Twitter; I'm @AltiumJudy, or you can connect with me on LinkedIn or Altium is on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. So today I have a longtime friend and ex colleague, Jay Colognori and Jay is the Director of business development at EIT which is Electronic Instrumentation and Technology in Richmond Virginia, and you're gonna have fun just listening to Jay because it's like talking to Matthew McConaughey! So you girls out there? We're gonna just have fun listening to Jay talk... Just kidding, but he does have a nice Southern drawl. So Jay, thanks so much for joining us today, and we look forward to talking to you about DFA and some technical stuff today. So thanks for joining. Thank you for having me. This is an exciting time at EIT we just added on Altium capability and so I'm delighted to get to the word out, and what better way to do it than talking to you? Well, you know when you suck up to your friends at Altium, you get on the podcast. That's how it works around here. So Jay, Why don't you start out by telling our listeners a little bit about your educational background and your professional background sort of set the stage for us? Okay sure. I picked up an EE Degree at Virginia Tech and then a Master's EE at the University of Virginia. So you could say I'm a son of Virginia for sure. I managed to spend most of my career here in the Mid-Atlantic and my career spans from board-level electronic design to integrated circuits, VLSI design, and then kind of jumped over to the other side of the table and became an Applications Engineer, doing custom microelectronics and had a few years running a rep firm making some commissions along the way, and then I ended up in the printed circuit board business working for DDI and VIASystems, now TTM, and one of my customers was a company called Zentech which was an Electronic Manufacturing services company, and I went to work for them. And now I work for EIT who is also situated in the Mid-Atlantic. I do want to correct one thing you mentioned. I live in Richmond, Virginia, but EIT is based in Leesburg, Virginia where we have two other facilities, I can talk some more about that. Alright. Thanks for correcting me there. So with all that variety of background why don't you tell us a little bit about where you are now and about EIT and what their expertise is, and what kind of technology makes they handle and so forth? Yeah. Okay, so I joined EIT back in March, very happy to be there. This is a company that's in its 42nd year of providing... Wow. Yeah - Engineering services which then led to electronic manufacturing services. So we do both; engineering is very much in our DNA, we consider our engineering value-add to be an important part of most of our customer relationships. So, you know, the thing about being in the electronic manufacturing service is that it's kind of a commodity when you look at it from the standpoint of just picking and placing parts with machines. So, we're looking to engage customers at additional levels, including engineering, turnkey builds, turnkey testing solutions, of all manner, box build if necessary, demand fulfillment, soup-to-nuts… so that we're doing more than just using those machines. And EIT has three facilities on the East Coast. Altogether we have over 200,000 square feet of brick and mortar which makes us pretty big for a small company. We have a facility in Danville, Virginia. Our headquarters is in Leesburg. And then another in Salem, New Hampshire. Altogether, I've got eight surface mount lines to keep busy. Danville is what we designated our low-cost center of excellence. It's also a 100% vertically integrated location because they can do any kind of metalwork, cabling wire, box build. We have all that in place. It's a purpose-built facility to support the box builds, which we like to do for our customers. We don't do metal stand-alone, although occasionally I'll build a heat sink or something for somebody. We tend to allocate that factory towards our customer box builds. Okay. And then Leesburg, and Salem New Hampshire are high-tech facilities, they both have the latest state-of-the-art universal equipment, so we can back each other up if something goes wrong and they both have a full suite of the latest and greatest and automated inspection technologies and a full suite of test capability. Wow that sounds impressive! It's a heck of a lot going on, and a story that needs to get out; it's kind of been a kept a secret lately so yeah... I haven't heard of them. I mean I'm on the left coast, of course, but I had not heard of them, but they sound like a really great facility with a really good… going all the way from true engineering to box builds. That's nice. So… and we'll make sure to share the link, by the way, for any of you listeners who are looking for a good EMS or engineering service or whatever. We'll be sure to share that link on the show notes. So yeah, and please do, because we're launching a new website next week, so I want to get that out. Okay. Hopefully the timing for that'll work out. Okay. Alright good. We'll send you some traffic for your new website. So Jay, because of the breadth of your knowledge and experience and background I thought it'd be great for our listeners today if you shared a few tips from, you know, being that you came from some of the largest board manufacturers and certainly in North America and almost the world - maybe three tips or so, on bare boards and then a few on DFA to help the designers in our audience, and engineers in our audience, that might want to learn a few tips and tricks from a pro? Okay, you know I came up with a few of each, you know, really when you're looking to design a printed circuit board, you have two fundamental objectives: one, to design it so that it can be fabricated reliably and with high yields. And then two; so that it can be assembled. So there's mistakes that can be made that can affect both key processes. So first of all, let's talk a little bit about PCB design issues that affect PCB fabrication and reliability and, you know, none of these I think are gonna be earth-shattering, but it's interesting to see the same mistakes being made a lot over and over again.So, we just kind of keep - we're banging the drum and we hope everybody gets the message sooner or later. So, I guess beginning with VM pad. There's more and more VM pad today, by necessity, and VM pad, in order to be done reliably, requires a wrap plating process. Without getting into specifics of what that does, what the purpose of it is, it provides a reliable button around the via. Without the wrap plating process. It's an unreliable arrangement, but that requires the addition of more copper on the outer layers than you would see otherwise, and this wreaks havoc with the fine line design. So, if you're at 3 mill tracing space or below, you really can't tolerate that extra copper; so it requires planning upfront. Understand, if you're gonna need wrap plating and if so, maybe move those fine lines geometries to the inner layers where that won't come into play. Okay, that makes sense. And it'll get you, I mean, you think your design's done and then the next thing you know, your fabricator says, well you know, you realize I'm going to add this much copper to the outside and now you're violating tracing space. I've seen this happen too when there's multiple on RF and microwave boards too and you have... when you're doing sequential LAM or whatever, and you keep plating, plating, and people don't, when they do their simulations, don't add in those extra layers are getting extra copper too. So you really can throw you off. All right. That's a good one. Here's another one that you know, I'm told we're still seeing a lot of it in the market by the guys that I used to work with at DDI, and that is, you know, they'll see overlapping via structures where the designer has put a via from say, level one and three, and another one from level two to eight; that can't be made. They have to be stacked; they have to be sequential. They can't be overlapping but believe it or not. You see it. I've seen it many many times, but you know, to be fair, sometimes when I look at those cords and figure out how they're gonna be stacked up, it… you know. I get confused too. So... Well, I mean, I'll say this again and again: sit down with your PCB fabricator at the time you develop your stack up and your basic via structure and basically your structure is going to be driven by the toughest part of the design. Maybe it's a BGA with a finer pitch than you've ever used before. You're not even sure how to route it, you're probably going to have to stack some micro vias, or at the very least, have some blind or buried vias to get the job done. Sit down with a fabricator, before you even start that router, and make sure that everybody likes the stack up and that it looks manufacturable. Yep, very sound advice. Okay, that's another good one, got another one for us? One more I want to talk about, because this is happening more and more, you know, all the designs are getting faster and faster. I mean, high speed digital is now in the radio frequency and, FR4 is just has too high a dielectric for most of the new designs now, so many PCB designers are going to have to work with materials they haven't worked with before, the more exotic, more expensive materials, and when you start talking about fabricating a PCB with Teflon versus FR4, you're talking about different processing altogether. So, when you go to a new material, consult with your PCB guy as to which material would be suitable for the speed you're looking at, and ask them, okay, how have the rules changed with that material? What are your limitations? And you can ask the EMS provider the same question, because the parent circuit board is the foundation upon which all of our business is done. So we understand PCBs, but I think especially with materials you want to talk to the fabricator. Yeah, it's true and when I worked for an RF and microwave shop once, I told them, I said: you know, sometimes when you see a piece of Teflon material and a piece of... I don't know, Rogers 4350, until you strip the coffer off. You can't tell it's different, but inside the board shop that Teflon can turn into bubble gum, it's not reinforced. But when you take the copper off and you go like this [motions] it like flaps in the wind where 43-50 will remain rigid so, kind of gives you a visual sense of, this is radically different. And the way that it processes inside the shop, and how, the way it interacts with chemicals, moisture, heat, so it is true - the closer you can be when you go into those materials, to your fabricator. Okay, those were three good ones. All right how about DFA wisdom? Okay, well one we see quite often, and I guess it's tempting for the designer to do this, because he thinks he's kind of found a shortcut and a way to use less PCB area, but you see a lot of guys trying to use what we call common pads, and these are pads that are so close together that they touch, rather than routing a thin signal from pad to pad. So these pads do share the same signal, but we don't want them to physically share the same space. That causes us problems with controlling what the solder does once it flows, so keep those pads apart, and run a just a small signal trace between them. And then we'll let the solder mask do the rest, and we can control the flow of the solder. So that's a real simple one, but we run into it a lot. Okay. I talked before about VM pad, we see a lot of designs where people don't fill that via. If the via is in the pad, it's got to be filled, and it must be plated over and planerized. Sometimes that's done properly sometimes it's not. There's a little dimple there... Yup. If there's a dimple in that pad and I place a BGA ball on top of that gas, it's gonna get trapped underneath the solder paste that I apply and there'd be a little air in that dimple and heated gas expands; it expands ferociously. It doesn't want to stay where it is and it'll blow all the solder right out of the pad at reflow time and you know I have customers argue with me against it, it is expensive to fill and planerize via, but it's the right thing to do. You have to do it if you want reliable BGA connections. These are leadless parts that we can't inspect visually, we have to use x-ray. It's not really practical to use a hundred percent x-ray inspection except on high-reliability applications like military, maybe medical. So we lot, we lot-sample these BGAs with X-ray and if we don't see any problems with a lot we carry on. So, I can't emphasize that enough, to fill those vias and fill those vias properly. And I would add further, that there's no point, you know, we have some people that are using thermal vias, these are vias really which are designed, not necessarily to conduct an electrical signal, although they do, but to conduct electricity from a hot part from maybe a ground plane, might be an inner layer or wherever, and you run into people who call out… so there has to be a filling to fill those vias before they're plated over. Right. And there's two types of filling: there's conductive and there's non-conductive. I strongly recommend never to use conductive. Non conductive is much less expensive. The benefit of using conductive fill from a thermal point of view is super minimal. I mean, the copper's doing all the work... Okay. -and if you need to draw or pull more current or more thermal energy, just create more thermal vias because the copper's doing all of the work. I mean, I'll give you some numbers: thermal conductivity is defined in wattmeters, a typical via is going to give you over 600 wattmeters of conduction, if you fill it with conductive fill you only get six more wattmeters. What's that compared to... Oh, yeah. -380 I'm sorry, 380's what the copper gives you. The non-conductive only has point six wattmeters.But the point is both of those are in the noise compared to with the copper's doing. Right. And last but not least. Good luck trying to get a printed circuit board fabricated in China with conductive fill they don't do it over there. Really? Right so well, maybe somebody's doing it but we're having a hard time finding any. Interesting hhm.Why is that? Because it's not, it's not... They just don't like it? It's not important so we're just not doing it? I don't think anybody should be doing it, it doesn't make sense to me, it's too expensive for the return. Interesting, I'd never heard that before actually, but it makes sense with those numbers. I'm kind of surprised it took root for a while. We recommended as far back as five years ago, at DDI, not to use conductive fill, I think it's a dinosaur that it's day has come and gone, but there's probably some engineers out there right now, going no! Huuu! [laughter] We'll see... Yeah well show me the data, you know, and when when there's enough good research out there and data people stop doing it. I'm sure. Okay, so along the lines of thermal vias, here's another tip. A lot of times a thermal via will be located in a big plane so you'll have the via, and the copper button around it will actually be in contact with the plane - this is a no-no. This makes it very hard to deal with the solder flow again. So what we ask our customers to do; is do a sprocket arrangement around that thermal via button and so basically that button will exist -  there'll be a gap between it and the plane around it, and then the sprockets are simply traces above, below, and the right and left and that - it's an arrangement of the sprocket - very good design practice, frequently missed and, it's not unusual that we have to go back and retool the board to add those in order to make it. Especially back planes with active components; you see a lot of that and they have to retool to add that feature to make it manufacturable. Well, these are good tips. You were concerned you didn't have good tips. I think these are really good tips actually. Well glad you do. I do, not that I spend all my days, you know, pondering DFA these days, but that's good. You know Jay, you and I worked together for a small bit of time and something I've noticed over the years I don't know... maybe five, ten years, it seems like there's been a migration of more EMS shops that go in to have PCB designers in their shop and not so much I guess, fabricators - at least that I've noticed, they may be there, of course they do with larger shops, but why do you think that is and why do you think that's a good idea? Well, I think it's a great idea for both the customer and the EMS. We, as I mentioned before, we want to do more for the customer than just assemble the circuit cards and if a customer, an Altium customer, finds themselves in a position where they need to outsource some of their design, maybe they you know, their designers are saturated, maybe they just need the resources. What better place to do it than at a guy that knows how to assemble the cards and really understands the issues about fabrication and about assembly. Your chances are that the design from your EMS provider is going to go right through new product introduction without a hitch, whereas if you do it internally and you're not aware of some of the issues you know, it won't go through it without a hitch. We may not catch the problem until it's too late. And we may see several tooling iterations, and you'll see a delay and nobody wants to delay during new product introduction - everybody's in a hurry to get their prototypes. And nobody wants to waste money because that's going to be expensive too - Yeah, but we think there's a lot of serendipity between that particular engineering function and getting to what we all want. Which is production of electronics. Well that does make sense in that, we both know Mike Brown, and Mike I trusted implicitly to know about fab and assembly and he would catch all that stuff so he did have a broader understanding than maybe, somebody who just does, you know has a consulting firm say, that does designs because he's around it all the time all, day long so there's certainly a lot of exposure there. So that makes sense. Well, first of all, welcome to the Altium family! You told me recently that your designer on-boarded Altium Designer 18, that's exciting for us. So thank you for that. What made you - I'm gonna go for a little pat on the back for Altium right here. I want you to tell us why you, why EIT chose to go Altium Designer over perhaps another tool? Okay. Well, we think some of the key features of Altium; first of all, it's an all-inclusive package so it's schematic capture and printed circuit board design. You don't have to worry about working with two different pieces of software. We like the fact that there's an e-CAD m-CAD interface which makes it really easy for us to do three-dimensional fit models once we place the components. We love the room creation capability which as I understand it, allows you to take a previous design, a piece of it, and then just kind of cut and paste it right into your new design. Yeah. So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I think that's pretty strong and then, last but not least very solid DFM rules capability that you know, is really going to help us get to where we need to be. I mean the fact is these boards need to be designed to IPC standards and the fabricators have tailored their process to meet these standards; and when you send them something that's outside those bounds, the mechanism sort of locks up. It just doesn't work. You'll get a 'no-bid' or bells will go off, so those design rules are critical and that you have the ability to set them up in advance is a nice piece of insurance so; I think it's a reasonably priced tool compared to the other high-end tools as well. So we're pleased to have it. Good. Well, thank you again we're happy to have you on board and I'll needle you later about sending your designer to AltiumLive because we're gonna have a really good conference with some good training coming up. So your designer will probably enjoy going if you guys have the time and budget to do that. Well, keep me posted on when and where. I will it's coming up in October. So Jay, we're kind of wrapping up here, but if you've listened to these podcasts before, you'll know that sometimes I like to ask designers or engineers like yourself, what you like to do after hours, and we call this portion of the podcast designers after hours. So, I know you have a couple interesting hobbies...so why don't you tell those to our listeners because I think they're kind of fun? Well, I'm looking forward to 10 days in Montana and Wyoming this September, I'm a big hiker, and nothing is more fun than hiking up in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. So we're gonna hit three national parks; we're gonna do about two to six hours of hiking a day or as much as my legs can give me and just have just an awesome lifetime outdoor experience and hopefully not run into a grizzly bear along the way… my wife's really worried about that, by the way [laughter]. Bring your grizzly repellent! And then, I know you wanted me to talk about one other thing... My favorite... Yeah, as you know, we business development types are very competitive and what better setting to compete against each other than you know, in a pub throwing some darts. So I've been a dart player since I was 19 and took it very seriously for a while, and spent way too much time on it. Actually traveled every weekend to tournaments all around the United States and played in a couple of US Opens. But that was a long time ago, now I just play for fun on Monday nights. That cracks me up. You are the one and only competitive traveling dart player that I know... Okay, but my favorite part is - tell about the beer to success ratio of a good dart player. Oh yeah, so so we're throwing a 27 gram projectile at a target about the size of a dime and turns out, that if you get nervous or you try too hard, you're not going to be very successful with that. So, it turns out that, that second or third beer really kind of smooths out your stroke and you generally shoot a little bit better. At least that's what we rationalize. And what happens if you go over three? Yeah, that's that's a slippery slope indeed. You've got to be careful... That is so funny oh my gosh. Okay well, that is like one of my favorite, I think, designer after our hobbies yet. So when I come out, we'll find a place and throw a few. Okay. Alright, I'll get my three beers ready Okay! No, actually for me, I'd be like half a beer, like three beers you'd be putting me in an Uber and sending me home. I'm a wimp. So Jay, thanks so much for your time. These have been great tips and it's good to see your face my friend, and I wish you all the success at EIT, and we will certainly share all the links in the show notes and we'll also put the link to AltiumLive in the show notes and we'll encourage your designer to come out and join us as one of the new new beasts of the Altium family. So we'll include that as well. So thanks again for joining and we'll talk to you soon, my friend. Thank you Judy, it was my pleasure. Thanks again for listening to the podcast. This has been Judy Warner with the Altium OnTrack podcast and Jay Colognori from EIT, and we look forward to seeing you next time. Until then always stay on track.

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Making and checking parts is the most frustrating aspect of PCB design. Find out how Zak Homuth set out to change that and what is next for Upverter, EE Concierge and the future of PCB design in a browser-based setting. Show Highlights: Why the Upverter parts library? Verified parts at scale, in a high-quality way. Verified parts - free to use for everybody coming soon! Verifying Datasheets, it’s a lot of work and at the heart of design frustrations. I wanted to take the magic of Github and Google Docs and create something for hardware designers. From concept to manufacturing in 20 hours. This is a conduit for bringing ideas to life.   Links and Resources: Verified Parts on Upverter A note about Verified Parts coming soon to Octopart Upverter EE Concierge Zak’s Linkedin Zak’s Twitter Indestructible pantyhose + Funny Video   Hey everybody, it's Judy Warner with Altium's OnTrack Podcast. Welcome back, we have another amazing guest for you today but before we get started, please follow me on LinkedIn. I post a lot of things for engineers and PCB designers and I'd love to connect with you, and on Twitter I'm @AltiumJudy and Altium is also on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. So please give us a follow.   Well today I have a really extra special treat for you.   Zak, I think I'm gonna destroy your last name so I can say Zak?   Yeah.   Your last name is?   Homuth.   Homuth - see I would have killed it. So, this is Zak Homuth, he is one of the - are you a co-founder of  Upverter correct?   Yes.   So Altium acquired Upverter and EE Concierge in August of 2017. So a lot of people have asked me why Upverter, what was Altium's interest in Upverter, because it seems like sort of out of our lane. So I thought I'd bring Zak in today and let you hear straight from the horse's mouth. So start out by - if you would Zak - just telling us about what is Upverter, and what is EE Concierge, and what you were trying to create when you launched that company?   Yeah sure, so Upverter is cloud-based, schematic capture and PCB layout. And what cloud-based means is, it runs in the web browser. You type Upverter.com into Google Chrome, it shows up and you can do your schematics, your layouts right there you know, order the boards for manufacturing right from your web browser. You don't need to download anything, it's collaborative, which was kind of our big superpower for a really long time. Which is that a bunch of users can work on the same schematic, in the same layout, at the same time, in a very Google Docs kind of way. That's Upverter, and then EE Concierge came out of an experiment we ran back in 2015, trying to figure out what was the most frustrating part of doing a PCB design. And it turned out it was making and checking parts. And Upverter - until that point - had a shared global parts library and what that meant was every time I added a part, those parts were available for the community but without somebody checking those parts…   Yeah, that could be a nightmare.   -Yeah it was - it was really scary for people, they were spending a lot of time checking parts, they were spending a lot of time making their own copy of a part that was already in the library, a lot of that you know, wasted duplicates...   You can not have a messy library.   -Yeah and so EE Concierge grew out of that. It was our attempt to clean up and verify and guarantee the quality of the parts inside of Upverter, and so we built a small army of Electrical Engineers all over the world. They work in an uber-like model where they can kind of log on, make a couple of parts, check a couple of parts, log off again. They can do it full-time, they can do it twenty hours a day, they can do it an hour a day you know, or an hour a week if that's what they want to do. And we built a machine intelligence to check all the work that they were doing to make sure that we had the best possible parts in the world inside the Upverter parts library and then, EE Concierge was born out of realizing that that's probably not specific to Upverter - probably every engineer has the problem.   Yeah there's that.   -so we built a plug-in for Altium Designer so that Altium users could leverage these verified parts which inevitably caught the eye of Altium and one thing led to another but - that you know that's EE Concierge. It was this idea of verified parts at scale, and then kind of outsourcing at scale, for electrical engineering. But in like a high quality way.   Right so, how many parts are in the library now? Yeah so there's about a million-and-a-half parts...   Holy cow!   -in the Upverter library of those million and a half, about 275,000 are verified these days. And to different levels of verified, some of them just have verified symbols, some have verified footprints. It depends on kind of what era of EE Concierge they were made in. But it but we've got about 25,000 like really, really rock-solid ones and they're the 25,000 that most people use.   That's awesome. So what's the plan kind of going forward, to get the rest of them? You said you have some kind of machine learning to help you verify that. Like what's the path going forward to get the rest or - you know million parts like you said - not everybody's using a million parts right? There's infrequent wonky ones in there?     Yeah there's kind of two answers to that. So how we make this maximally useful to the most engineers is similar to what Altium and Octopart did, after Octopart was acquired we worked really, really hard to make sure that Octopart was for everybody. It wasn't just you know Octopart for Altium, it wasn't just parts for Altium, it was Octopart for everybody, or CAD, you know Mentor, everybody. So we're trying to do the same thing with the EE Concierge, we want verified parts for everyone. So in the next couple weeks we're gonna launch verified parts on Octopart, so we're taking that 250,000 parts and we're putting them on Octopart free for everybody to use. And you can download them in EAGLE, Altium, Upverter. We're working on Mentor, I think we've got Cadence or CAD as part of that, so like in any format, free. Just find them, download them, use them. That's what we want so that's kind of one avenue for the EE Concierge. And then the other is - this is a little bit more kind of futurist and out there answer -   That's okay.   But if you were gonna build an AI that could read data sheets, first thing you would do is have a huge number of people read data sheets and enter that information very reliably into a piece of software, so that you can check it all. And so the kind of like dot, dot, dot - is we think if we get good enough at doing EE Concierge, and we do it for long enough, potentially we can read data sheets with a computer, kind of our self-driving car version of the Uber model.   Like and then part of me goes; and you're assuming the data sheets are correct?   Yes it's a real problem and so we had to do a lot of stuff at EE Concierge to catch like, if TI ships a datasheet, and the datasheet has a problem, they'll rev the datasheet and then they'll rev the datasheet, and then not only that, but they'll reuse packages and they'll reuse symbols and the reuse bits and pieces of that datasheet across other parts that they make. We had to build a ton of stuff to be able to catch when they made an update to one datasheet and apply those changes to all the other parts to use the same bits and pieces of the datasheet. It's an ongoing thing - it's a hard problem for us but yeah it's a real - it's a real issue.   Well it's like amazing to me that we're here like...   -at all [laughter]   I mean just from being in like - I started in the industry way back in the 80s - and like everything was done by hand and all that, so just that we could possibly even get to that point - it's just so sci-fi to me - but it's amazing, it's so great. So tell us a little bit about how did you get it, tell us about your personal history and how you went down the Upverter rabbit hole and popped up here.   Yeah sure yes, so I was kind of into software and computers before that was a cool thing I was on the internet pretty early, I was I think five or six when my dad brought home you know our first computer and you know I tore it apart and tried to figure all that kind of stuff out. I was building video games when I was seven, and...   -of course you were [laughter]   -all that but I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Computer Engineering is a little bit of Software Engineering, a little bit of Electrical Engineering, and then you know all the physics, and boring, normal engineering stuff that you have to do [laughter]   Waterloo is a co-op University and so every four months you'd go to school, and then every four months you'd go get a job, and so I got a bunch of these cool jobs, kind of all over the world, I used it as an excuse to travel. And so I worked in Canada's capital Ottawa, for the insurance company that insures the majority of Canadian doctors, and so they had some really interesting data. And I built a search engine and a database for them to to be able to search when  wrong-side surgeries happen right, you know when they operate on the wrong lung or whatever. I built a search engine so that doctors could figure out the root cause of some of this error because that was important for the insurance company to try to prevent this from happening. So I did that, I worked in Germany for IBM, I worked in India for Infosys, and then I got a job in Waterloo working for a company called Sandvine and Sandvine build what are called deep packet inspection - telecommunications service. And so ISPs would install these in their network and it would sit between their subscribers - the people who use the Internet and the rest of the internet - and it would look at all the traffic that flowed through the box to try to figure out how much is Skype, and how much is YouTube, and how much is pornography and Facebook and everything else. Because if you think about it,  ISPs are kind of like the water utility. They know that they sold so much water but they don't really know what the water was used for, how much is watering lawns right, and so we were giving ISPs that kind of intelligence. Anyways, I started off as a lab tech, I tore the boxes apart, tried to figure out why they weren't working, put them back together and made them work and I kind of worked my way up to actually designing the box. So I designed two of them for Sandvine before quitting, and I quit because I was really frustrated that on our side of the cubicle wall there were ten of us working on the hardware that was so essential for this company to exist - but on the other side of the wall there were 300 software guys who had Git, and they had version control, and they had collaborative tools, and they could test their code by pushing a button on their computer. I had to carry a 120 pound server around a building, and use screwdrivers and shit to like - and that's, that's part of hardware - I never wanted to take that away from hardware but it felt like it could be easier and you know. We were using Mentor Graphics’ tools and I was frustrated by the archaic kind of 80s feel of it all you know?   -yeah.     I used a Mac at home - I couldn't use the software on my own computer if I wanted to, and I was trying to build stuff at home and this was kind of before IoT was like a thing. This is right before Arduino, before all that stuff. But I wanted to do that stuff at home and it was just so hard to do any of that you know from my Mac, from home, without a huge budget - it's an endless amount of time and at the time we were seeing cloud tools like Gmail and Google Docs and Github, kind of emerging and so I left, because I was pretty frustrated that if this is like the state-of-the-art, if like one of the most complicated telecommunications servers that anybody had built today, was built by some punk kid in this office in Waterloo, working mostly alone, using tools that felt kind of clunky and out of date, like there has to be something better than there and and so we left to build it and it was really no more complicated than: can we take some of the magic of Github, and some of the magic of Google Docs, and build a tool like that for hardware engineers and maybe it takes forever to disrupt Mentor, or Cadence, or Altium, or any of the big guys that have been at this for decades. But we assumed there were enough people like us that just wanted to spend two hours on a Saturday afternoon designing a piece of hardware. There must be something we can build for them - a little bit like Google Docs right, it doesn't have all the features, you can't make fancy tables, you can't do it all, but it's slowly taking over the world and we wanted to do the same thing for hardware.   Well I think you point out something that I really noticed. It seems like there's a block of people that are like my age, the old 80s people and we've kinda just built upon old... and then there's the next generation that were five, okay I was 20 when I got my first computer, you guys kind of grew up with these things in your hands, and it I think it's kind of hardwired in your brain. So I think, there's more efficient, better ways to do things and we are building on old Legacy stuff, so sometimes we just can't see it.  And so I think it's really very exciting because I think people are gonna be: oh thank god, somebody's built something modern you know, on the cloud that thinks, and operates you know, which I think was the big draw actually for Altium, which we can talk about that a little bit later so - so the Upverter I was going to ask you, but you've answered it partially, is why Upverter? Out of the various other things you could do, why didn't you go into - I don't know -  you have a very entrepreneurial spirit, so there's lots of things you could have done. Like why did you pick this one thing?   Yeah, so when we started Upverter, I quit my job before I knew what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to build something, I knew I wanted to start a company, I knew I was kind of done with working for the man, and I recruited two of my kind of college roommates. So these are guys that went to Waterloo with me. We lived in this terrible, decrepit, run-down house next to the  campus, near the engineering buildings. You know we lived together, we worked together, we did our co-op jobs together we - you know we were thick as thieves. But I called them up and I said you know, how do you feel about quitting your job and like doing something new? And they both quit like the next day and so we got together in this old decrepit student townhouse and we wrote down hundred ideas of things that we were excited about, things that we were passionate about, things that we believed needed to be fixed. I was shouting loudly in the corner that we needed to build this  - this hardware tool that was the Google Docs for hardware. That was my passion, that was what I was excited about. But Steve and Mike, they had some cool ideas of their own. There was a bunch of stuff that they wanted to build that a lot of it is actually been built, and a lot of it ended up being quite substantially large companies. So our second pick our kind of the front runners....   So what was on your cut list?   -Yeah so the second pick was, we wanted to build drones, and this was before drones were cool. We wanted to build very large-scale drones that would be towed behind container ships and provide a bigger radar footprint than the ship can have itself because it's so close to the water and you'd do this for a bunch of reasons. But the really burning reason at the time was Somalian pirates. If you could fly one of these drones above a container ship, you could get ten or a hundred times the radar footprints so you could really move the ship before anything bad happened. If you wanted to. Anyways, a company ended up doing this, and started right around the same time that we did and ended up being acquired for something on the order of two or three billion dollars and so we missed that one a little bit. But but we just - we just didn't even know where to start on it. But it was - it was the second pick.   That's crazy.   So we didn't really talk about this ahead of time, but you know I think I know around the time AltiumLive went down, there were people, kind of gurus in the industry, and they're like so - ultimately it was in October, so and Altium acquired you guys in August and I remember some people, like it was like all the buzz, like what are you guys doing? Why that customer? And so what I want to talk about is - who uses Upverter? I'm thinking makers, hackers, hobbyists and maybe EEs that want to be startups or do personal projects - like who do you think the Upverter audience is, and how's Upverter going to serve them, and how many people are on Upverter? Tell us about your ecosystem a little bit?   Yeah so it's the 'misfits' mostly, these are the guys...   The land of the misfit toys! I like these guys! It really is, these are the guys that are unserved by the eCad industry at large, they're using operating systems or tool sets, or computers that can't run traditional eCAD, they're in funny parts of the world, they're students, they don't have electrical engineering degrees. In lots of cases they're the weekend warriors that can't steal a copy of the eCad that they use at work and bring it home, they're makers and hobbyists and hackers yes, but they're also - you know we helped some Nigerian kids put their country's first satellite into orbit...   That's cool!   -and they couldn't have done it using traditional eCad tools.   That's cool I love that!   -Yeah we - some of the first augmented reality startups were built using Upverter. Like kind of odd stuff like that where you couldn't necessarily use a traditional eCAD tool, you couldn't necessarily iterate at the cycles that one of those tools would let you you iterate at. But also like children on the internet, and you know Mac users and all that kind of stuff where you just can't use a traditional eCAD tool.   Right.   But misfits mostly, we think of them as kind of an - not really the next generation of electrical engineers - but but very much a different breed, a different type of 'doer of electronics'. Well it is kind of grass roots though I think that we are gonna see more amazing things, like drones being dragged behind boats, that are gonna come up organically and kind of like you, I think you're the perfect sort of head of this brand, like 'yeah dropped out of school, this wasn't working, I don't like it whatever, so yeah I can see that happening over the next five, ten, twenty years. I think we're gonna see amazing stuff out of that space. So how many people, I don't know how you quantify that, have used Upverter, or use Upverter or actively log on a month?   Yeah-   So how do you do that?   At the time we were acquired by Altium, it was a little over 50,000 people used Upverter, they use it in a very 'bursty' way,  they'll show up - they'll work frantically for two days - ten days a month, and then they'll disappear and we won't see them for a long time ,and then they'll come back. And we correlate that with their kind of idea cycle right. They'll have an idea, looking very excited about the idea, they'll work on the idea, they'll do that thing, and then they'll go away you know, probably because they built the thing and they want to play with it. It could just be that their focus has moved and they're they're onto something new, and then we'll see them come back, six months a year you know, a couple of days later - depends on -how much time and energy they put into their ideas. But that's okay for us, like we we never aspired to be the daily tool like somebody like Altium is, like we aspired to be this conduit for people to bring their ideas to life and you can only be as useful as people have ideas right. So if you have an idea every day, we can be useful every day.   Most people don't - most people have inspiration quarterly, or a couple times a year and that's that's what that looks like. We have many thousands of monthly active users so thousands and thousands of people log on every month, to work on their ideas, and their little projects. And the average project is worked on for quite a small amount of time, relative to you know, what you would expect from other eCAD tools. We'll see products going from conception to manufacturing in like 20 hours or less. And so that's pretty amazing, if you consider that's two or three days of work.   That's unbelievable, so if - you said something earlier that I wanted to ask you about and that was - you mentioned that people can go into manufacturing. Do you have sources like fabrication, assembly sources that are related to Upverter?   Yeah, and we've had this in a couple of different forms over the years. We've had, what we like to call the print button, kind of refactored a couple of times inside of Upverter. We're currently refactoring it again right now, and part of that is as a result of the acquisition. We have another company we acquired, Siva, who does a lot of stuff in the manufacturing space, and we're refactoring our print button to use some of their technology and would be better linked up with Octopart, so it should be a better experience for our users as a result of doing it. But yeah, over the years, we've had a button, you click it, you give us your credit card number, and a couple days later something shows up in the mail which, which is what you designed.   Awesome.   -And we'll do that again in the very near future.   And it - was that assembled also,  or just the bare board?   -We used to just do bare boards, and then we experimented with assembly for a little while, the new - the newest, latest and greatest version - that we're working on right now will be fully assembled and it'll probably include whatever enclosure your device fits inside.   Oh my gosh, I mean I'm like ridiculously excited about this.   Yeah, it's gonna be pretty cool.   Okay so I always ask - I don't always ask this - but I wanna ask this now. Okay, are you a geek or a nerd?   I - - geek, but I don't know why. I don't know what the difference is really...   It's just your gut - open question.   Okay, geek.   -I think you're a geek cuz I don't think there's - I don't think - I think... whatever [laughter] It's something we ponder here on the OnTrack Podcast. What is a nerd and what is a geek, we've...   -big questions [laughter]   We've decided what geeks are cooler; nerds seem more like, at least to me, physics - like...   -okay   -children 'Coopers'   -oh Science...   -yes more deep on the science side but this has not been proven, so if anyone wants to comment below and tell us what you think a geek and a nerd is, we're all ears. So but you were geeking out there, this is why I stopped you.   -Okay -cuz I'm like, oh you are like totally geeking out and I'm tracking with you man, I'm like, oh this is like - we're having a geeking out moment right now [laughter].   So I was talking to our Head of Operations the other day, and I was just saying that during that AltiumLive, people were asking why would Altium, a professional e-tool, pick up Upverter, and basically I think Altium has a vision to kind of embrace every level of PCB designer and also embrace and serve those 'misfits', those marginalized, or that don't have access you know, those that can pay for Altium Designer and they do it professionally, well great...   -Yes   But that we want to serve the wider community. So I was asking Ted Pawela about it, and he was saying - and I just wanted to get you to chime in here - is that sort of what we were talking about earlier - is that cloud - I mean a lot of software programs are going to cloud-based.   You know there used to be security issues, but they've tightened those up - so technology is moving towards cloud based, and if we don't sort of pay attention and go that way too, I think will be sort of left behind and that, also the next generation, or the new, or the upcoming, or the grassroots, organically-grown innovators, I think are gonna - like you - are going to be cloud natives right, and are going to be frustrated, like you were when you were at Waterloo. And to also meet those people where they are, not expect them to cough up the money or fit into our model, but figure out where they're going, and what their model is, and what their needs are. And so that was - that's what I think Altium saw as very attractive - seeing Upverter as a huge enabler to serve that community. Would you agree with those?   Yeah - so when we were in the kind of acquisition process with Altium, I spent a lot of  time on the phone with Arum, our CEO, talking about kind of his vision for the future of Altium, and his vision for the future of electronics, and one of the things we talked a lot about was making Altium synonymous with PCB design. And part of that is, you can't just serve the tradespeople in the mainstream - there's a million people in their basements that have ideas, that want to invent stuff, and those things include electronics. You need to be there if you're gonna be synonymous with PCB design and so - so a big part of it was that. But then also a big part of it is like, the world's changing knowledge work's moving to the cloud, is becoming collaborative you know. The Windows operating system may or may not be the operating system of the future. You look at mobile, you look at tablets, you look at what's happening with Apple, and you know all of that. They're you know, there's a version of the world where Altium is constrained  to only serving a chunk of a market because of the way we built our technology, and so I don't know, Arum obviously hasn't said any of this, but there might be a little bit of this that it is an edge on   the future.   Well I can tell you that personally, it's a really exciting place to be, because I love that. I love that you know, I interact a lot with University students and that. But we've also gone to you know, I went to the New York City Maker Faire and to see what people are developing is so exciting. So to be able to serve that community, and see what they come up with, is just a blast. Like I love to see it, and especially like you had a start early with IoT like it's gonna explode what we can make. And like I said, they're gonna be making it in their garage, in their basement, or their shed...   -It has to - it has to explode. Like we're talking about you know billions of devices all over the world...   -billions like capital B.     -yeah like a hundred or two hundred thousand professional electrical engineers aren't gonna invent billions of devices; we need to include a bigger chunk of the world, in the design of these things and you know, and then   - that's not to say the tradespeople won't have their place, like of course they will - but we need grassroots, we need people building stuff in their basement. And we need it at a scale that we've never needed it at, more than now.   I know, I'm really excited about what you're doing - I'm really excited what you guys developed, and I'm so excited that that you're part of our team. So sort of wrapping up here, I want to sort of segue into what I call 'designers after hours.'   Okay.   So, I don't think you have any after hours, you might get to have a beer after work once in a while. This guy's from Toronto and he's here an awful lot and I don't think you have any after hours right now, but if you did have after hours Zak, what would you do, or what do you like to do?   Yeah well my wife and I bought a house in the Canadian wilderness about 18 months ago, and so my after hours, for the last 18 months, has been turning this kind of run-down cabin into a home for my family and so I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos, and buying a lot of power tools, and trying to figure out how to do all that stuff. But when I'm - when I'm here in San Diego, and when I'm stuck here for the weekend, [whispers] I buy a couple videogames [Judy laughs] that's - that's kind of my thing.   Okay, and here's another super fun thing about Zak. I want you to share about - his wife is also an entrepreneur. So tell us about your wife's business cuz that's really fun. Yeah so my wife is a very successful entrepreneur, she started a company when she was quite young, that did eCommerce, and she sold that. And then she ran another company which was for angel investors, and she sold that. And then she did something with hair extensions, and her new thing is called Sheerly Genius, and Sheerly Genius makes indestructible pantyhose.   And you can  hang a human being from stuff with nothing more than a pair of pantyhose.   There is a video, we are going to share the link of Zak, hanging his wife... [Zak laughs] from a second-floor balcony with pantyhose - it is a real thing.   It is a is real thing.   Okay, so what are the materials?   Yeah so it's heavy molecular weight polyethylene, which is what the fiber is made out of, and it's special in that it's incredibly strong, but also a low denier - or denir - I'm not sure how you're supposed to say that word - but so it's a 30 denier fiber which is what you can make hosiery products out of, but it's incredibly strong. It's like the the strongest dental floss you could possibly imagine, and she found a way to weave this into pantyhose but also to like wrap lycra in it so that it's stretchy - but it's still sheer, but it's like incredibly and ridiculously strong, so it will never run.   -It's like 'superhero pantyhose' you guys really you're gonna have fun watching this video that we'll connect below, and we will also connect to Upverter, and EE Concierge and Zak's LinkedIn profile, if you'd like to connect with him, and any other things that we think that..   -Sounds good [laughter]   -you might want to connect to. So Zak, thanks again.   Thank you.     -I'm so looking forward to working with you and seeing what we kind of collaborate with and sort of reach  - reach to the grassroots-end of the design community.   -Me too .   I'm really excited about it so thank you so much for joining us.   Of course thanks for having me.   This has been Zak Homuth, is that close enough?   -Yeah.   Zak Homuth and Judy Warner with Upverter and Altium, and EE Concierge. And we will look forward to seeing you next time.   Until then, always stay on track.  

Charles Pfeil and Judy take a look back on the days of manual design, before exploring today’s very different eCAD competitive landscape and the tools that take designers to the next level. Join Altium’s Judy Warner and Charles Pfeil for a conversation on PCB design, autorouters and the future of software design tools.   Show Highlights: Introducing the iconic and award-winning Charles Pfeil Tape ups and touch ups with red pen precision Artistry not OCD, PCB design for form and function Charles on joining Altium and Activeroute “You know we’re paid by the hour, right?!” Where are we going to be in 10 years?   Links and Resources: Charles Pfeil and Happy Holden at AltiumLive A lifetime designing PCBs: Surprising acquisition brings stability A lifetime designing PCBs: Focus on functional specs A lifetime deisgning PCBs: early design adventures Job Shopper to Service Bureau Changing Roles Switching to eCAD From Design to Software Merging Design and Fabrication An Excellent History of CAD Improving Autorouting and Design Software See all of Charles Pfeil’s articles on EDN here Hey everybody, Judy Warner here, Director of Community Engagement for Altium. Welcome to the OnTrack Podcast. If this is your first time listening, we're glad to have you. If you're returning, we're happy to have you back. The OnTrack podcast is produced every week, so please add the OnTrack podcast to your favorite RSS feeds or iTunes. You can also follow me on LinkedIn and Twitter @AltiumJudy, and be sure to follow Altium on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. So let's get into the show. Well, I have a treat for you today. I have a guest, Charles Pfeil, who is, he won't say it but I will, he's iconic in the industry and we're gonna talk a little bit about the history of routing. So, I want to tell you a little bit about Charles, forgive me for reading here for a moment. Charles has been in the PCB industry for over 50 years as a designer and owner of a service bureau and has worked in marketing and engineering management at Racal Redac, ASI, Cadence, PADS, VeriBest, and Mentor Graphics, so pretty much everybody, and now Altium. He was inducted into the PCB Design Hall of Fame through UP Media in 2013 for his contribution to PCB design software. Charles has been working at Altium since 2015 as a Senior Product Manager. So, welcome Charles, we always have a blast when we talk together, so thanks for doing this adventurous podcast with me. You're welcome, glad to be here. So, you are on the other side of the country from me right now. I'm here in La Jolla as you know and I get to see you sometimes once a month, and you and I have had some interesting conversations here in the office, kind of a shared belief that we're sort of losing some of the history, right? Of our industry, particularly design, sort of where we've come from and where we're going, and I really value people like you, Happy Holden, Lee Ritchie, these people in the industry really that carry this whole history inside of them, so I'm always happy to have a chance to sort of glean some of that from you and you've told me some great stories, so thank you again for doing this. So, how I met Charles was when I was a journalist from iConnect 007 and I interviewed him to learn about ActiveRoute, which was a new product for Altium at the time, and just sort of casually at the end of the conversation I mentioned to Charles "So, what's your history?" not knowing who Charles was and then, out he comes with the history of PCB design. So yeah. I felt like a knucklehead, but it ended up being a good article, so you were a good sport. So let's start talking about where at least you and I remember things which is tape-up. So, tell us about your earliest memories of doing tape-ups and what that was like and sort of what some of the problems were. Okay, well my first job, I worked inspecting Rubyliths, and at that time the way that people routed boards was to essentially cut away the things that they didn't want, so what was left was the routing. So there's a process in which they used an exacto knife and my job was to look for scratches on the Rubylith and patch them up, and I would have to say from that to what we do today is a tremendous change, and it went through an evolution where for manual design that the methods changed, the materials changed, and also the complexity of the design changed, and the same thing has happened once we started working with computers to design, right? The materials change in the sense of the board materials. The methods change in that there's constantly an evolution of how much the software is able to do to help the designer, but just a note on the manual design and where this term 'artwork' came from. That, the interconnect would be done by drawing it, right? Usually with red and blue pencils and most of the designs are two layers, and you would try and interconnect them and, you know, erase a line if it doesn't work out, but generally, you know, the type of components back then were DIP high C's if you had any at all, and it was, it was fairly simple and you could draw with red and blue pencils what you wanted and then you would either use black tape or red and blue tape in order to create an artwork that would be used in fabrication in order to get the design made. Well, there were many different styles when you get to the artwork side. Some people like to use the black tape and create curves and arcs on everything, and some would not care about concentric arts, others, like me, would be very OCD and want to make every single corner perfect and make it look like some kind of art. It's not really art, but it's just the implication is that the person who's doing it is really caring about how it looks. Absolutely, which by the way, one question I want ask you I know the answer to but I think the listeners will appreciate, what were you touching up that Rubylith with? Just a red pen. Yeah, a red pen. I would just, because I had a magnifying glass to find the scratches 'cause with an exacto knife they would be really small, you know nicks. Right. And, so I'd go through looking at it with a magnifying glass and then use a red pen to fill it in so that there's no place with the light to shine through, because the way they were doing it back then, if enough light shined through then there'd be a hole in the mask for etching the board. Yep. Which could, what would that- Well, you'd have a- -well, it could have an open, well you'll have an open if the scratch went all the way across, right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So anyways, continue on. I just- Yeah. It's okay. -it's just a funny thing, like, when I think of how much precision we have now, to think of us touching up artwork with red pens just cracks me up. Yeah, yeah, and when using black tape I think it was common to start out with arcs and you'd do that by kind of using the knife to create a little cinch in the corner, but eventually arcs became the less productive method, let's put it that way, and so you would start making 45-degree corners by just cutting maybe three quarters of the tape and folding it over to create a corner, and so then the art was to make sure that everything was right on the grid, and when you did a 45 it'd be perfectly 45, and it got kind of excessive, but when computers came. Yeah. That's where it changed, and I do have an experience in that area when my service bureau switched to computer design as opposed to manual design. So you were right in that transition then, you went on your service bureau right from Rubylith black tape right into computer-aided design. Yeah, from tape-ups in 1978, from tape-ups to computer design, and that was a Racal-Redec system, and I lost all my customers because the only customers who wanted the computer design were people who already had it themselves. Most people who didn't have computer systems, they didn't trust it. We would give them plotted artwork and they couldn't edit it, so as a service bureau, I had to go out and find customers who not only used computers but Racal-Redec computers. So was Racal-Redec's price point, was there a barrier to entry there, kind of for that kind of system for OEMs? Sure. So, I bought two used systems, you know with a basic vector graphics monitor, PDP1134 with the software. I bought two used systems for, I think, my memory is not great on this, but I think it was around $125,000. Holy cow, that's a lot. It was a lot. For used. It was an investment and it paid off over time. I did increase my price per IC by a factor of 10. Wow. -which helps, you know, because you gotta pay for the apartment, but that's what happened in the industry. So, routing in a computer system was different because with the computer of course you're effectively laying down the edge as you route as opposed to going through a stage and sketching the, you know, red and blue pencils Right. -but, so interactive routing was really, click-click click-click at every corner, okay? And if you wanted to make a change then you would either delete those and reroute it or some more sophisticated systems allows you to move the track around, and it was either that or autorouting and at that time autorouting, well it hasn't changed much but autorouting was primarily just an X&Y; exercise and adding a lot of vias. In a sense it was similar to the way that I see routing. I see routing doesn't care about vias and they just, whenever you got to make a change in direction you just pop a via and go, and with printed circuit board autorouters that's what they would do. They didn't care about how many vias you added and really vias, the only problem with vias back then was the cost of drilling them. Right. At that time there was, wasn't. Yeah, it was nominal. It, yeah, well the cost was still there, but in terms of vias affecting the high-speed behavior- Right, uh-huh. -there weren't high-speed designs. There were companies of course who were doing that, but vias didn't become a cost for signaling performance. Right. So, people still didn't like vias. They could see with their mind that, "Hey I could route that without vias" so they would rather just go ahead and route it without vias, and so even though autorouters, every company tried to come out with the ultimate autorouter, and it could never match what the designer was thinking or what the designer really wanted as a final result, and I'd say generally that's been the problem with autorouting. Too many vias, not really ending up with a route path that the designer had in his mind, and also the most common thing I hear is that it would take more time to clean it up than it would to just route it manually. Now I remember back in my early fabrication days knowing designers that would autoroute a portion, say 60% of the board they would autoroute, and then they'd do all the rest by hand. Was that because of what you're talking about or was that just the speed to design at the time? That would be a method. There's so many different ways of approaching it, but a method would be to route the critical signals first manually, and then just give it to the autorouter to finish everything else, because that would save time. Now, autorouters evolved. The early autorouters really didn't care about anything but is there an open channel and is there space for a via, right? Then it evolved over time where there is a recognition that, well what can we do to try and eliminate vias, and I say eliminate because they would route with vias and then they'd have a pass to remove vias if they can, right? So, but it really wasn't fundamentally in the algorithm of the router to try and route without vias. Now, a number of autorouters gave the designer control, like CCT with a DO file where you could, you could put costs on the router to try and minimize vias, but it was difficult. You really had to be an expert and I went to a number of companies where they had one person who was the router specialist and the designers would place the board and then send it to the router specialist who would do the automatic routing and that person would know how to set it up and it would be pretty good, but when it came back there still had to be a quite a bit of editing. Who was, who created the best sort of autorouter of that time, and what kind of time frame are we talking about now, as we're moving forward? Yeah, I would say, well it depends on who you talk to, okay, because- Everybody has their favorites, right? -everybody has their favorite. So I would say though, obviously the Cooper Chan Technology, CCT. Their autorouter was the favorite, especially among Mentor, Cadence, PADS. Those companies all had interfaces to it and relied upon to do their autorouting, but once CCT was bought by Cadence for a measly four hundred and thirty or four hundred and fifty million dollars- Whoa. -whoa. All the other companies, Mentor, Very Best, and also PADS felt "whoops we can't go down this road" because, as usually happens in a competitive environment, those who have a relationship with one of their competitors, it's possible that that relationship could diminish over time. Right of course, and we have to remind listeners right now that at that time PADS was not part of Mentor. Correct. Correct. Neither was Very Best. Very Best, right, so it was a whole different environment. So Very Best, they had autorouting capability and it was different. It was, it had some different data structures and different algorithms and actually that was one of the primary reasons why Mentor bought Very Best, was for that autorouting capability. Oh, okay interesting. See, I love, I mean, people that are around our ages know this but so many now that are, I don't know maybe 40 and under don't. You know that how, this used to be a, there used to be more than three or four players in this space, right? Sure, sure. And we kind of all, ate each other up until we have what we have today. I would say the 90's and early 2000's there were so many mergers and acquisitions. Yeah. Unbelievable-Unbelievable. -and you know, I went from Intergraph to PADS to Very Best to Mentor, right? And then now I'm at Altium, and looking at the evolution and the tools over that time the autorouter was a key thing, but realistically designers still preferred to route it just by themselves and manually, right? It's true. It's, it really has a lot to do with what the designer thinks about when they're placing the board. They know that a certain bus needs to go in a certain direction on a certain layer, and to set up those kind of controls and cost adjustments for an autorouter is a lot of work and it requires a lot of knowledge about the core capabilities. So, I think routing in general after, yeah after CCT was bought started turning in a different direction where rather than just autorouting, let's see what we can do to give the designer the kind of control with interactive routing that they want, and increase their performance. What can we do to increase the performance? Right, and is, tell me again now is this around the time that you joined Mentor's team? Yeah, I joined Mentor in 1998. Okay, so late 90's. Yeah, it was- And you helped, and you helped architect that vision right? Yeah, I was part of it. I mean- Part of it right, it's a team. -it's always a lot of people involved, and I was involved in it, and I always tried to put my designer perspective into it, right? And I think that's my contribution, is not only being able to work with the development people but to be able to communicate the knowledge and expectation of a designer so that the software that we develop is something that a designer would appreciate. Right, you had a designer- Not that.you had a designer brain so you knew, which by the way, as you, as you alluded to in the beginning, is an artistic brain, really. It's, there's a lot of creativity there and an appreciation for not only function but also aesthetics and to put things in really neat, tight patterns, or. Well, yeah- Yeah, you call it OCD but there's that. -there is that. You know, this is a topic that has come up quite a bit in the last 10 years and I like to say the following, that yeah there's that artistic side but ultimately I believe it's about efficiency. And in the context of CAD design, efficiency means that the routing is as direct as required, of course if you're doing some kind of, you know, tuning on it it's not going to be direct, you're adding lights to it, but you want it to be as direct as possible. You want to manage many more things than we had to manage, you know back in the 60's and 70's, right? Right, absolutely. Now you have to manage high-speed requirements, so you don't necessarily want to have everything tightly packed in parallel. I remember I was demonstrating some ActiveRoute capabilities to a high-speed product manager, probably a little over a year ago. And there was a bug in the routing where it was, it was kind of messy, you know and the high-speed engineer says, "Oh that's great!" Right? Because it would totally eliminate cross-talk, you know? Exactly. Yeah, so there has to be the balance and that fundamentally, that is the job of the designer. How do you figure out the compromises, right, to achieve the right balance where you fulfill manufacturing, you fulfill high-speed requirements, and ultimately the design works, right? And if it comes out looking where everything is nice and neat, that's a bonus because the next person who has to make edits on it - it'll be much easier, right? Right. And yeah, frankly most of time or many times if it's not a high-speed net, those geometries don't matter so much, but if it doesn't take any extra time to make it nice and neat what's the problem with it? Yeah, I get what you're saying, yeah. There's sort of some elegance about the design, and like you said, many boards go into respins and you're not always doing that on your own work, so that totally makes sense. So, you joined Altium what two years ago about, approximately? Yeah, in May of 2016, excuse me, 2015. 2015, and so you've been working on ActiveRoute here, so what, you know, you've always throughout your whole career been pushing for trying to make things better, what are you trying to accomplish sort of on the work you're working on now, on the ActiveRoute? Yeah, so it is one of a number of things that I have worked on, but I would say most of my time has been spent on ActiveRoute, and the intent of ActiveRoute is to give the designer another tool in their interactive tool set, okay? It's not for everything, but the intent is that when you have a group of signals that you want to route together, whether it be, you know, a bus or just individual nets that start and end in approximately the same place, I want to give the designer the ability to just, through a couple simple clicks, have those routes the way that he's thinking, okay? And what is the designer thinking? That's the key. But I would say that, you know, it, with most boards is pretty clear. You see the connections, that's where they start and end, and I'm looking for a tool that can allow that designer to just select those connections and have it route on the layers that he wants them on, ability to spread them out, ability to pack them together. These little techniques are there as options so that ultimately it looks like he would do manually. It's not a replacement for interactive routing, it's instead an accelerator. Oh, okay. By the way, along the lines of accelerator, I was talking to somebody, I have to share this story with you, I was talking to a designer and he was telling me that he was sitting in your session at AltiumLive where I think you were showing ActiveRoute, and he said someone in the room said, "You know we're paid by the hour, right?" because it was making it more efficient, so I think that's a compliment to you Charles, to the work you're doing. There is that trade-off, but that's been there forever, that designers fear being replaced by the computer, right? Right, so that's gonna be my next question, just, so get ready about, to talk to me about AI and designers being replaced. Okay, well, we can go there now. Okay, you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. So, I know there is this fear or I've heard there's fears of designers being replaced by AI or computers and all that. So, what say you, Charles Pfeil? Well, I say that it's going to be a while, all right? If you can imagine all the energy and all the time and talent that has been focused on auto routing over the years since, you know you have companies like ASI in the 60's, late 60's had automatic routing for IBM, okay on mainframes- Oh I didn't know that. - and, you know, programming it with punch cards. So, from there until now the ability to get autorouting to succeed has failed all right? And this is just- Or has it gotten us there since the 1960's, right? We're still not, you know. It's not there, and generally designers have rejected it and it's not because they're afraid they're going to lose their job. And, besides that, like I say usually, you don't sell these tools directly to the designer, you sell it to their manager, and if they can get the job done faster they're all for it okay? Right, right. But the problem is that it hasn't been adequate, the autorouting capability. It's a tough, tough problem. Every design is different, right? It's different. And- And it's very, and because of that it's such a complex brain task, really. Right, and there are standard circuits, of course you know, standard interfaces and memory circuits that need to be routed the same way, but then the placement's different, the board size is bigger or smaller or a different aspect ratio or it's flex or, you know, could be a lot of different variables. There's many, many more variables right now, too. So, to fully automate that is going to take a completely different perspective for design I believe, and it's going to take a huge investment, and the interesting thing is okay in ten years, let’s suppose somebody started on- You know, are you reading my mind? My next question was gonna be where are we gonna be in ten years Charles? So- Yeah, exactly. Let's suppose somebody started a project to use AI and that's in the, in the context of doing machine learning and analyzing databases and building decision trees, and even if you got that working over five of those ten years, a lot of the things will change. They'll evolve and this is one reason why software vendors can't keep up with the technology. There's always something new, always something new and on our list of enhancements to work on, it's always the latest technology, right? And there's only so much we can do so we have to pick and choose which technology we're gonna focus on with each release. Well, and, I was just talking to Ben Jordan here about this. Well, until I came here, since I came from the board and assembly side, I had no real appreciation for the time and discipline it takes for development and for coding that software. It takes a lot of time and a lot of discipline to put in all these new features and we're so, sort of instant gratification, we're just like "oh, well, put it in your next release." Not so easy. Yeah, it's just a fact of life, and our customers, they want these things and we want to give them to them, but it has to be an evolution. So if a company decides okay we're going to use AI to automate the design process, sure they could analyze all the different types of designs and understand them and how to use them, but then when they start with a new design, how could an AI decide on its own what the board size should be? What the stack up should be? Whether or not to use micro vias? What are the critical signals? I guess it would have to be able to read a data sheet, that is hard enough for humans to read. That aren't always accurate, may I add. Yeah, that's true. I mean, most of the time they are, but. I'm not saying it's not possible, it certainly is possible. But, it's going to be a long time. Yeah. And maybe, who knows, maybe MCM's will come back and we won't have printed circuit boards. There's always that possibility. Yeah, yeah. We just don't know, and the, even, you know, printing circuit boards - where is that technology going to be in 10 years? Exactly, yeah. 3D printing and there's, gosh, so much that they're grappling with, so who knows? Yeah, and the core problem is that a company is not going to design a product, let me rephrase that, a innovative company is not going to design a product that uses all these standards and circuit technology of the past. They have to have something new and different. Right. This is why Intel stays in business, and all the other chip manufacturers, because you know they need higher performance, they need more capabilities, and so it's a complete redesign except for like I say standard interface is a memory, that's not a redesign, until the next standard comes out, but those tend to last a couple years and then, you know, you look at memory DDR 2, 3 & 4 they just change over the years. And the interesting thing about, I wanted to comment here, about memory in terms of the PCB designer, the DDR2 circuit was the most difficult to route because of the T branching. Then the DDR3 came with the fly-by signal technology, that was much easier for the designer to work with as long as you have some kind of electrical signals, and DDR4 is really just a minor evolution, significant in terms of performance over the DDR3, so who knows where that's going next. Will the next phase be like the change between DDR2 and 3? I don't know. They have the specs for DDR5 and I'm just unfamiliar with them. But, so technology will continue to change. Maybe AI will be able to support a segment at a time, and I know that there's people in the industry who are talking about this and wanting to do something with it, but I'm unaware of a officially funded project to do it at this time. I'm with you there, and I would think you would hear about it from your connections, I don't know. Maybe, we don't know. And would a company you know like Cadence or Altium or Mentor fund a project that they know is going 2 to 3 years and maybe, maybe not work? It's a risk. A potential risk, so. Yeah, so I would say to all the designers who are concerned about losing their job, don't worry. But what will be extremely important is that they make sure that they continue to be educated and understand the latest technology and what requirements those bring to the design process. Then you have your value. Yep. And you won't lose your job. And I would say to that, that almost through the OnTrack newsletter and now podcast I hear that message over and over and over again from leaders saying, "the key to my success was I continued to learn and evolve" and so it's been great to talk with you Charles I always learn so much from you. I wanted to ask you one last question. I have this part of the podcast I like to call "Designer After Hours". I've just noticed a lot of designers have a creative bent and usually have some interesting hobby, so what are maybe one or two of your favorite hobbies? Well, I could list three, all right? Okay. One is playing golf. I love to play golf. Second would be, photography, taking pictures, mostly landscape pictures.You can see behind me a couple landscapes, but I like to say that I prefer landscapes because they don't move very much. I've tried to do a few weddings and it was a total disaster, so I'm just not that, but and then third I do write a lot and I've, you know, written poetry and I really enjoyed doing that, so those are the three things. Speaking of writing, I wanted to let our listeners know that Charles has written, which I'm delighted about my passion for history being preserved, how many parts are we now up to, ten? How many are we gonna finish at? Well, actually 8 of them have been published in EDN magazine. EDN Magazine, right, so there's a whole series of Charles' experience over all these years and goes into depth, so if you want to learn more please go to EDN.com and probably just search by Charles Pfeil and you'll find that. How many are you gonna, I know eight have been published, so how many- It'll be, eight have been published, I think it'll be twelve or thirteen in the end. Twelve total, okay. Okay, well thanks again Charles, we've gotta run, but I could, I'm never tired of talking to you. You're a dear and thank you so much for your contribution to the industry, and it's always great to talk to you. Well, that's all we have for today. Please remember to subscribe to the OnTrack podcast and follow us on social media, and remember to always stay OnTrack.

Neste MotherChip #143 tivemos conversas sobre jogos recentes, como Pyre e Splatoon 2. Teixeira retorna para relatar o que tirou de Inside e seus problemas com jogos que não o incentivam a usar de todas as possibilidades ali oferecidas, algo que ele senti

Neste MotherChip #143 tivemos conversas sobre jogos recentes, como Pyre e Splatoon 2. Teixeira retorna para relatar o que tirou de Inside e seus problemas com jogos que não o incentivam a usar de todas as possibilidades ali oferecidas, algo que ele sentiApoie o Overloadr: https://www.overloadr.com.br/ajudeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Where does collaboration with MCAD fit into your PCB design flow? Are you still encountering communication barriers between electrical and mechanical domains? In this episode, John McMillan talks about the evolution of the handoff between MCAD to ECAD and the advances that make collaboration more efficient than ever before. ProSTEP iViP    Whitepaper:Removing the Gap Between ECAD and MCAD Design  Video: Communicate with any MCAD vendor Have questions or topics of interest? Interested in being a guest on the show? Contact us at pcb_techtalk@mentor.com. Subscribe today so you don’t miss any future episodes!

This week on Animal Instinct, host Celia Kutcher is talking dog jobs and has Dale Picard of East Coast Assistance Dogs (ECAD) on the line. ECAD was founded by Dale Picard and his wife Lu. Dale shares that when his father in law suffered a stroke, he and his wife taught their family pet to help him rise from a chair and retrieve some items. They noticed that his father in law actually became more active and less depressed than when help came from a human. Celia chats more with Dale about the breeding and training process of the golden and labrador retrievers and how the presence of the K-9s truly helps those in need of medical attention. At ECAD, the training tailors each dog’s skills to the needs of clients, who have a variety of limitations in strength, balance, coordination, or mobility. Tune in for an inspiring episode! This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA. “The dog is a life support for these people.” “We try to critique our training to each client that comes in.” —Dale Picard on Animal Instinct

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Neste episódio você vai conhecer um pouco sobre Direitos Autorais, Organização Judiciária e entender porquê você não precisa pagar direitos autorais ao ECAD se o seu PodCast não tem fins lucrativos. LEGISLAÇÃO APLICÁVEL: lei 9610/98 Decisão da 10 Câmara Cível do TJRJ PARA SABER MAIS: ENTENDA O QUE É DIREITO AUTORAL Música na internet: pode usar 30 segundos sem pagar? FEED: http://feed.lexcast.in TWITTER: @oLexCast FACEBOOK: www.fb.com/lexcast.in

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Willkommen, doutores! Já está no ar o segundo podcast do TdZ: o ZionCast! Neste episódio discutimos acerca do Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD), especificamente sua lei base, o tão criticado (e subjetivo) fato gerador que dá ensejo à cobrança de direitos autorais – que afetou inclusive alguns inocentes blogs, vejam só (!) – e a [...]

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Falamos sobre as vantagens de se filiar í  ABPOD (Associaçío Brasileira de Podcast), explicamos o acordo com o ECAD sobre direitos autorais em podcasts. O post Metacast #17 – ABPod, ECAD e Direitos Autorais apareceu primeiro em Mundo Podcast.