Author Archives: Brian White

Freedom CAD Participates in Cadence Virtual Conference

Freedom CAD Service’s, senior printed circuit board designer, Robert Jardon, presented at Cadence’s Virtual Conference on December 2nd, 2009.  The Virtual Conference introduced Cadence’s Allegro and OrCAD Version 16.3 Printed Circuit Board Design Software.  Robert’s session addressed Optimizing Complex Designs by utilizing Cadence Allegro’s GRE Interconnect Flow Planner (IFP). Robert Jardon has earned a worldwide… Read More »

Freedom CAD Adds New QA Manager

Freedom CAD Services announced that Rich Kluever has joined the company as the Quality Assurance Manager.  Rich brings over 25 years of printed circuit board DFx experience working previously for industry leaders IBM, Solectron and Flextronics.  Before joining Freedom CAD he served as the Design Services QA Manager for Flextronics’ Charlotte facility.    He holds a… Read More »

Freedom CAD Participates in IPC Designers Council

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… Read More »

McCurdy Recognized by IPC

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,… Read More »

Freedom CAD Fills CTO Position

Freedom CAD Services, Inc. (FCS) is pleased to announce Don Duncan as their Chief Technology Officer. CEO and Co-Founder Lou Primmer offered, “We have become one of the largest independent Design Service Bureau’s in North America through the dedication to technology, quality and service of our printed circuit board physical design team. Over the past… Read More »

Freedom CAD Adds Director of Operations

Freedom CAD Services, Inc. (FCS) is pleased to announce that Eddie Broyles has joined the company as Director of Operations. Mr. Broyles joins Freedom CAD after 16 years with Solectron/Flextronics.  “We are very excited to have Eddie join Freedom CAD,” commented Lou Primmer, CEO.   “His years of experience in building and managing a staff of… Read More »

Jardon Joins Freedom CAD

Freedom CAD Services, Inc. (FCS) is pleased to announce that Robert Jardon has joined the company as a Senior Project Manager and Printed Circuit Board Designer. Robert formerly owned and operated Jardon Engineering, of Tustin, CA, which was acquired by Kaparel Corporation, a Rittal Company in 2001.   Lauren Primmer, President and COO commented, “We are thrilled… Read More »

Freedom CAD Launches California Design Center

Freedom CAD Services, a leading provider of high-performance printed circuit board physical design (layout) and fabrication, has opened a design center in Santa Ana, California.   The office is conveniently located at 505 Tustin Avenue, in Santa Ana and will enable Freedom CAD to provide local PCB layout services to their growing number of West Coast… Read More »

McCurdy Named West Coast Business Development Manager

Freedom CAD Services, a leading provider of high-performance printed circuit board physical design (layout) and fabrication services, has named Scott McCurdy as Business Development Manager for the West Coast. Mr. McCurdy brings over 35 years of printed circuit board industry experience to this role.   As the former President and CEO of McCurdy Circuits, Mr. McCurdy… Read More »

Cadence's GRE Technology Offered at Freedom CAD

Freedom CAD Services, a leading provider of high-performance printed circuit board physical design (layout), has recently signed a licensing agreement with EMA Design Automation, the Cadence North American Channel Partner, for the Cadence Allegro suite of PCB design software.  The license agreement includes the Allegro 16.0 Global Route Environment Technology, also known as “GRE.”  This… Read More »