SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – September 25, 2012) – PCB WEST — The IPC-2581 Consortium, the collective group of PCB design and supply chain companies devoted to enabling, facilitating and driving the use of IPC-2581 in the industry, announced today that consortium members have fabricated the industry’s first PCB by transferring the design data to manufacturing in the IPC-2581 format, while reducing overall fabrication time by 30 percent. This is another big step forward since the consortium validated the format earlier this year.

The bare board was fabricated with a PCB design from Fujitsu Network Communications. Fujitsu exported the fabrication data contained … Read More → "First PCB Built Using the IPC-2581 Format Reduces Fabrication Preparation Time by 30 Percent"

Rochester, NY – EMA Design Automation™ (ema-eda.com), one of the world’s largest Electronic Design Automation Value Added Resellers, announced the release of EDABuilder, an application automating the creation of both schematic symbols and the corresponding PCB footprints / land patterns, reducing library creation to a fraction of the time.

“Creating schematic symbols and PCB footprints is a constant challenge,” said Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA. “The traditional process is laborious, time consuming, and error … Read More → "EMA Automates the Library Creation Process For Engineers and PCB Designers"