We’re proud to be exhibiting at DesignCon 2012 and we hope to see you there!

Be sure to visit us in Booth 910, where we’ll be highlighting this exciting offering, among others:

We will have printed circuit board designers and engineers on hand to answer your questions and discuss our capabilities, tools and full array of turnkey solutions! Our expert use of today’s most powerful Printed Circuit Board CAD tools from Cadence and Mentor enables us to deliver the most complex designs efficiently, cost effectively and meet the requirements the first time! We’ll show you how we effectively use design floor planning to minimize our design layer counts, saving time and money. And we’ll show you how we use design constraints to assure that we meet the performance requirements of today’s leading IC technologies.

If you haven’t registered yet, Register today for your complimentary Expo Pass, and visit us at Booth 910.

Developed by engineers for engineers, DesignCon is the definitive annual event for chip, board and system designers. Every year, thousands of engineering professionals make the decision to start the year off right with DesignCon.

A Bigger & Better Expo.
The 2012 Expo Hall offers engineers and engineering managers a unique opportunity to learn about new technology solutions, leading to more informed and effective decision making on the job. Your complimentary Expo Pass gives you access to the Expo Floor, hands-on sessions, technical panels, visionary keynotes, free happy hours and more.

Discover the Latest Products & Technologies.
Attend and leave with the latest technical skills and knowledge, meet with solution providers face-to-face, and see the newest products and technologies the engineering community has to offer.

Register today, and join us at DesignCon 2012.

ColoSpace will provide Freedom CAD colocation services out of its fully redundant data center plus managed services which include Windows Server Management, Managed Firewall Security, Switch, and NAS storage.

ColoSpaces’s Co-founder, Aaron Sawchuk said “We are happy to add Freedom CAD to our distinguished list of customers and it is another example of continuing ColoSpace’s high growth rate by providing leading IT Services to the region’s best companies.” Freedom CAD Services CEO, Eddie Broyles added, “ By contracting ColoSpace to manage our IT Infrastructure, we are able to provide our customers with a much higher level of data security and accessibility than ever before.”

ColoSpace is the largest regional provider of outsourced data center and IT Managed Services in New England. The core of all of ColoSpace’s services is the network of SAS70 Type II Compliant Data Centers that we operate in the region. These Data Centers provide a level of redundancy, reliability, and security that our customers demand but are unable to meet internally. ColoSpace layers multiple Managed Services, which include data storage and backup, Managed Security, Infrastructure Monitoring and Management, and Application Hosting on top of the core offering to meet all of the needs of our customers. Our services help our customers increase uptime, reduce expenses, and improve operations.

Scott Miller, COO of Freedom CAD commented, “we are pleased to have Blue Hills Solutions representing Freedom CAD in the Bay Area.  While we have had PCB designers located in the Bay area for a number of years, we have relied on Scott McCurdy from our So. California office in Tustin to remotely provide the business development in the Bay area.  While Scott did a great job of developing a customer base in the Bay area, we felt we could accelerate our growth and service our customers better with local sales presence.   We’re excited to have Blue Hills Solutions on board!.”

Click below to watch the interview:

Robert Jardon Discusses Design Planning and Cadence’s Allegro Interconnect Flow Planner with Pete Waddell

Gerry is a 30 year veteran of printed circuit design and has earned a solid industry reputation for his design expertise. Gerry and Greg will show how an effective planning methodology using the Cadence Allegro Interconnect Flow Planner (IFP) can reduce layer counts and save time and money during the printed circuit board layout process.

Allegro Interconnect Flow Planner provides the technology and methodology to not only capture, but adhere to routing intent for dense designs with highly constrained, standards-based interfaces. After capturing design intent, its hierarchical interconnect flow planning architecture provides feedback from the route engine, significantly shortening design cycle time and reducing the number of layers. Users can, for the first time, leverage their expertise and put design intent into a tool that understands what they want—natively.

FreedomCAD has used Allegro Interconnect Flow planner technology and methodology to reduce layers on several boards as well as shortened time to design these boards.

Website: PCB West Conference

About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.

The EASi-Line provides attendees with the opportunity to follow a circuit board through the various stages of the PCB assembly process, demonstrating the various technologies including laser marking, surface mount assembly, reflow and selective soldering while providing attendees with a wealth of knowledge and information pertaining to the manufacturing.

Freedom CAD’s CEO Eddie Broyles commented, “Freedom CAD is pleased to provide the layout support for the bare boards at Midwest again this year. The Midwest Electronics show and specifically the EASi-Line is a great way for the show’s visitors to gain more knowledge into the manufacturing process and Freedom CAD is pleased to help make this experience possible.”

Website: Electronics Midwest Conference

Freedom CAD has been recognized by Cadence as their Service Bureau of the Month.  Cadence sited Freedom CAD’s expertise with their Allegro PCB Design Software and participation in Allegro BETA program were key contributors to this selection.

Visit Cadence Design Systems for the details!

Visit the RealTime With… Designers Day website  for more interviews and information about the IPC Designers Day.

Charles Pfeil, Engineering Director at Mentor will be presenting “Effective Design Methods for Very Large BGAs”.

Mr. Pfeil has been in the PCB design industry for 40+ years and literally “wrote the book” on this subject. There are many benefits to using the BGA package; however its greatest asset – the ability to provide an extremely dense array of thousands of pins – also turns out to be a tremendous problem for PCB designers. The BGA density and pin count continues to increase; yet, our ability to effectively design with these devices has not kept pace.

Fortunately, significant advancements in PCB fabrication technology have enabled further miniaturization in the manufacturing process. These improvements, along with new software and design methods specifically for BGAs provide a means to successfully design using these devices. Mr. Pheil will explore the impact of dense BGAs with high pin-count on PCB design and provides solutions for inherent design challenges.

In addition, Vern Wnek, of Broadcom’s Chip Planning and Packaging Group will be presenting “Let your PCB Layout Team help you be SUCCESSFUL”

Mr. Wnek is a CID and a PCB Manager and the Central Library Manager for Broadcom Corporation in Irvine, CA. He has 30 years experience in the industry with PCB Layout Designs and EDA tools for DFM, DFA, and DFT requirements and is a multiple Co-Patent holder for Routing Optimization for Ball Grid Array Packaging for PCB Design. He will discuss how to create a successful team process and approach for Chip IO Planning and PCB Layout Optimization to help save your customer time and money.

The conference includes presentations on:

• Tin Whiskers: Are they behind the Toyota recalls?
• Printed Electronics vs.Traditional Electronics
• DDR3 Design and Analysis
• Easy (and Cost-Effective Ways) to Prototype Faster
• How to Plan your Design to Save Layers and Time
• LEDs and PCBs
• Library Management
• Emerging Technologies in Electronics
• Rigid/Flex
• Solderability and Reliability
• Flip Chip

Freedom CAD’s Robert Jardon is presenting “How to Plan Your Design to Save Layers and Time”.

Robert Jardon has earned a worldwide reputation for developing high density, high complexity interconnect design solutions where other designers have been less successful. He shared his 30 years of interconnection technology experience, 20 of those years using Cadence Allegro, in a presentation describing how an effective planning methodology that includes Cadence’s Interconnect Flow Planner (IFP) can reduce layer counts and save time and money during the printed circuit board layout process.

The trade show can be found on-line at: http://www.virtual-pcb.com

Robert Jardon has earned a worldwide reputation for developing high density, high complexity interconnect design solutions where other designers have been less successful.   He shared his 30 years of interconnection technology experience, 20 of those years using Cadence Allegro, in a presentation describing how an effective planning methodology can reduce layer counts and save time and money during the printed circuit board layout process.

Following the presentation, Robert fielded questions from a number of participants about the IFP tool and planning process..

Click play below to view the presentation.

For a link to the Cadence Press Release regarding the Cadence Virtual Conference please go to: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/press_releases/pages/pr.aspx?xml=102709_advance

About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.

Rich and his QA team provide the Freedom CAD designers with an independent audit of their PCB design projects to identify and eliminate potential DFx issues, making the release of  the design to PCB fabrication seamless and efficient.

“We are very pleased to add someone with Rich’s education and experience to lead our Quality Assurance team.  While he was at Solectron, Rich was a key contributor to their Valor Trilogy development, deployment and training process and we are looking to Rich to help Freedom CAD sustain our world class reputation for quality as we continue our double digit growth rate.”

- Eddie Broyles, CEO, Freedom CAD Services

IPC Designer Council Meeting

Freedom CAD Service’s senior printed circuit board designer, Tim Woytek participated as a panelist at the Orange County chapter of the IPC Designers Council’s January meeting. The meeting was designed to explore concepts and strategies which could help the designers to be more productive and efficient with today’s circuit routing challenges. The panel, consisting of representatives from Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Broadcom and Freedom CAD, shared their views and methodologies for enabling improved PCB routing planning and efficiencies.

Tim Woytek, a CID and former “Top Gun” award winner, presented examples of some of his most challenging designs and shared his planning methodology for routing success.

With 87 attendees, the Orange County chapter enjoyed its largest attendance to date for this meeting.

Scott McCurdy

Scott McCurdy of Freedom CAD Services, Inc. received a “Special Recognition Award” at the 2008 IPC Printed Circuits Expo, APEX and the Designers Summit in Las Vegas.

The award was presented in appreciation and recognition of Scott’s support of the IPC Designers Council activities by the IPC on behalf of the PCB and EMS industries, their suppliers and customers.

Mr. McCurdy is the President of the Orange County California Designers Council Chapter and since assuming this responsibility in 2003, has grown his chapter into the largest chapter in the US.

Freedom CAD’s CEO and Co-Founder Lou Primmer commented, “We are proud of Scott’s association with the IPC and his recent award.  He has been the consummate ambassador for the IPC and is clearly setting the standard for chapter participation and growth.   Kudos to Scott and his Chapter’s executive staff for helping him garner this well deserved recognition.”

About the IPC
Since 1957, IPC—Association Connecting Electronics Industries® has been guiding the electronic interconnection industry through its dramatic changes. A global trade association dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its more than 2,500 member companies, IPC represents all facets of the industry, including design, printed circuit board manufacturing and electronics assembly. As a member-driven organization and leading source for industry standards, training, market research and public policy advocacy, IPC supports programs to meet the needs of an estimated $1.5 trillion global electronics industry. IPC maintains additional offices in Taos, N.M.; Arlington, Va.; Garden Grove, Calif.; Stockholm, Sweden; and Shanghai, China.  http://www.ipc.org/