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Agilent Technologies provides a wide range of test and measurement instruments, systems, services, and software for high-speed digital design and test. Our signal-integrity solutions address high-performance probing (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, TDR, network analyzers), high-speed interconnect analysis/simulation, jitter analysis, FPGA debug, FBD/DDR memory analysis, Serial-ATA analysis, PCI Express analysis, HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and much more. See the solutions designed to help you gain insight into your digital designs.
The ChipEstimate.com chip planning portal is an ecosystem comprised of over 200 of the world's largest IP suppliers and foundries. These companies all share in the common vision of helping the worldwide electronics design community achieve greater profitability and success. To date, a diverse global audience of over 25,000 users has joined the ChipEstimate.com community and has collectively performed over 90,000 chip estimations. ChipEstimate.com is a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic-design innovation.
Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed memory architectures. Since its founding in 1990, the Company's patented innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus' innovations and solutions enable unprecedented performance in computing, communications, and consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as a range of leadership and industry-standard memory solutions. Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, India, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy's 45-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in "WaveShape Analysis"—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at www.lecroy.com.
As a signal integrity or digital design engineer, you face a multitude of challenges in your development efforts. Visit Tektronix to see our industry–leading portfolio of oscilloscope testing solutions that address those design challenges. Whether for signal integrity or compliance testing, serial data network analysis or digital validation—we have the complete test bench. Come experience our latest oscilloscopes, including the industry's only Performance MSO. Stop by booth #201 and enter to win a Digital Multimeter!
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award–winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/pcb
MoSys® develops, markets and licenses differentiated embedded memory IP and high speed parallel and serial interface IP for advanced SoC designs. MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM® and 1T-Flash® memory technologies offer a combination of high density, low power consumption, high speed and low cost advantages that are unmatched by other available memory technologies for a variety of networking, computing, storage and consumer/graphics applications. MoSys' silicon–proven interface IP portfolio includes DDR3/2 Combo PHYs, as well as SerDes IP that support data rates from 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) to 11Gbps, across a wide range of standards, including PCI–Express, XAUI, SATA, USB and 10G KR. MoSys IP has been production–proven in more than 190 million devices.






Amphenol Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable, cable assembly and interconnect systems, providing a full–spectrum of solutions for the converging technologies of voice, video and data communications, industrial/automotive and military/aerospace. With a long history of delivering innovation and value, Amphenol provides the right connections "inside and outside the box."
For accurate compliance test solutions covering USB 3.0, DisplayPort, Gen 2 and 3 validation of PCI–Express, SATA, SAS, 8x and 16x Fibre Channel and 802.3, engineers bet on BERTScopeTM, a trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc. The 26 Gb/s capable BERTScope with expanded software and hardware tools offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. For further information call (650) 364-1853 or visit www.BERTScope.com.
CST of America, Inc. is one of the largest suppliers of 3D electromagnetic simulation tools in North America. Its products enable you to characterize, design and optimize high speed devices, such as PCBs, packages, connectors and transitions all before going into the lab or measurement chamber. Results such as near and far-end cross-talk, TDR, eye diagrams, SPICE models and current flow, can be generated, investigated and optimized. Easy to use native interfaces for all major layout tools are available.
Sigrity delivers advanced software solutions for package physical design and for analyzing power and signal integrity in chips, packages and printed circuit boards. Sigrity's patented electrical analysis methodologies run orders of magnitude faster than general-purpose electromagnetic tools, helping leading companies in the semiconductor, computer, graphics, communications and networking industries ensure high performance and reduce time to market.
Agilent Technologies provides a wide range of test and measurement instruments, systems, services, and software for high-speed digital design and test. Our signal-integrity solutions address high-performance probing (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, TDR, network analyzers), high-speed interconnect analysis/simulation, jitter analysis, FPGA debug, FBD/DDR memory analysis, Serial-ATA analysis, PCI Express analysis, HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and much more. See the solutions designed to help you gain insight into your digital designs.
Apache is a leading provider of power and noise solutions for chip–package–system convergence from RTL to sign–off. Apache's products address challenges unique to specific design domains including digital, analog/mixed–signal, package/PCB, and SiP, while providing an eco–platform integrating SoC, custom IP, and System worlds. From RTL power reduction and early stage prototyping, through chip and package sign-off, Apache's products address critical power and noise challenges and enable designers to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and improve time–to–market.
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy's 45-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in "WaveShape Analysis"—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at www.lecroy.com.
Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed memory architectures. Since its founding in 1990, the Company's patented innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus' innovations and solutions enable unprecedented performance in computing, communications, and consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as a range of leadership and industry-standard memory solutions. Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, India, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.
Samtec manufactures Board-to-Board, Cable Assemblies, Panel and I/O, and Application Specific interfaces. High speed systems include strips, high density arrays, cable/flex circuit assemblies, RF, edge card/micro backplane, and I/O products. Samtec also manufactures micro pitch, standard board-to-board, rugged/power, and IDC/discrete wire cable assemblies. Samtec is privately held with worldwide revenue of over $300 million. Samtec is ISO/TS 16949:2002, ISO 9001:2000, and ISO 14001:2004 registered. Samtec is the Sudden Service leader with 17 locations worldwide.
SiSoft offers both EDA software and consulting services for high speed system design. SiSoft's award-winning Quantum Channel Designer software reduces design cycles for multi–Gigabit serial links through advanced Statistical and Time–Domain simulation. SiSoft's Quantum–SI software allows designers to quickly and accurately determine timing and voltage margins for DDR2/DDR3 and other parallel bus interfaces. SiSoft's consulting organization offers methodology, design analysis and model development services and is the leading provider of IBIS–AMI models and training services.
As a signal integrity or digital design engineer, you face a multitude of challenges in your development efforts. Visit Tektronix to see our industry–leading portfolio of oscilloscope testing solutions that address those design challenges. Whether for signal integrity or compliance testing, serial data network analysis or digital validation—we have the complete test bench. Come experience our latest oscilloscopes, including the industry's only Performance MSO. Stop by booth #201 and enter to win a Digital Multimeter!
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy's 45-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in "WaveShape Analysis"—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at www.lecroy.com.
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award–winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/pcb
Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed memory architectures. Since its founding in 1990, the Company's patented innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus' innovations and solutions enable unprecedented performance in computing, communications, and consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as a range of leadership and industry-standard memory solutions. Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, India, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.
As a signal integrity or digital design engineer, you face a multitude of challenges in your development efforts. Visit Tektronix to see our industry–leading portfolio of oscilloscope testing solutions that address those design challenges. Whether for signal integrity or compliance testing, serial data network analysis or digital validation—we have the complete test bench. Come experience our latest oscilloscopes, including the industry's only Performance MSO. Stop by booth #201 and enter to win a Digital Multimeter!
Halogen–free Polymers for Green Electronics. Good for the Environment. Great for the Bottom Line. Gain a competitive advantage in the design and low–cost production of your electronic components, while realizing the added benefits of environmental compliance. Ticona, the global leader in LCP for connectors, provides total solutions with global reach, local resources, and design and application development support to help you "Navigate the Green Landscape". Main offices are located in Florence, Kentucky, Kelsterbach, Germany, and Shanghai, China.
Vitesse designs, develops and markets a diverse portfolio of high–performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks worldwide. Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet–over–SONET, Fibre Channel, Optical Transport, and other applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com.
SiSoft offers both EDA software and consulting services for high speed system design. SiSoft's award-winning Quantum Channel Designer software reduces design cycles for multi–Gigabit serial links through advanced Statistical and Time–Domain simulation. SiSoft's Quantum–SI software allows designers to quickly and accurately determine timing and voltage margins for DDR2/DDR3 and other parallel bus interfaces. SiSoft's consulting organization offers methodology, design analysis and model development services and is the leading provider of IBIS–AMI models and training services.
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award–winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/pcb
Apache is a leading provider of power and noise solutions for chip–package–system convergence from RTL to sign–off. Apache's products address challenges unique to specific design domains including digital, analog/mixed-signal, package/PCB, and SiP, while providing an eco–platform integrating SoC, custom IP, and System worlds. From RTL power reduction and early stage prototyping, through chip and package sign–off, Apache's products address critical power and noise challenges and enable designers to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and improve time–to–market.
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy's 45-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in "WaveShape Analysis"—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at www.lecroy.com.
MoSys® develops, markets and licenses differentiated embedded memory IP and high speed parallel and serial interface IP for advanced SoC designs. MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM® and 1T-Flash® memory technologies offer a combination of high density, low power consumption, high speed and low cost advantages that are unmatched by other available memory technologies for a variety of networking, computing, storage and consumer/graphics applications. MoSys' silicon–proven interface IP portfolio includes DDR3/2 Combo PHYs, as well as SerDes IP that support data rates from 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) to 11Gbps, across a wide range of standards, including PCI–Express, XAUI, SATA, USB and 10G KR. MoSys IP has been production–proven in more than 190 million devices.
Apache is a leading provider of power and noise solutions for chip–package–system convergence from RTL to sign–off. Apache's products address challenges unique to specific design domains including digital, analog/mixed-signal, package/PCB, and SiP, while providing an eco–platform integrating SoC, custom IP, and System worlds. From RTL power reduction and early stage prototyping, through chip and package sign–off, Apache's products address critical power and noise challenges and enable designers to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and improve time–to–market.
With operations in 30 countries and sales of 1.1 billion Euros in 2008, FCI is a leading manufacturer of connectors and cable assemblies. Our employees are committed to providing customers with high-quality, innovative products for a wide range of applications.
At DesignCon, FCI is showcasing high-performance backplane, coplanar, orthogonal midplane and mezzanine connector systems, High-Speed I/O Connections cable links, and Power Solutions connectors and cable assemblies. For more information, please visit us at booth #515.
SiSoft offers both EDA software and consulting services for high speed system design. SiSoft's award-winning Quantum Channel Designer software reduces design cycles for multi–Gigabit serial links through advanced Statistical and Time–Domain simulation. SiSoft's Quantum–SI software allows designers to quickly and accurately determine timing and voltage margins for DDR2/DDR3 and other parallel bus interfaces. SiSoft's consulting organization offers methodology, design analysis and model development services and is the leading provider of IBIS–AMI models and training services.
Sonnet Software is dedicated to the development of high-frequency electromagnetic analysis software. Sonnet's Software provides ultra-accurate model extraction for predominantly 3D planar circuits and planar waveguide, RFIC, and MMIC circuits, PCB and RF packages incorporating any number of layers of metal traces embedded in stratified dielectric material. Sonnet showcases the Sonnet Suites Release 12, with up to 30x or faster analysis over the previous release. Sonnet integrates with most design flows. For more information, visit www.sonnetsoftware.com.
Cayenne Communications is a consulting company specializing in strategic, integrated corporate and marketing communications for emerging technology companies. For more information, see www.cayennecom.com.
Chip Design magazine is the only publication 100% devoted to the advanced IC design market. If you are seeking information about IP, PCB, PLD or Verification--Chip Design is the premier source for staying up-to-date! Chip Design's email newsletters provide in-depth and invaluable product knowledge. Sign up for your copy today (www.chipdesignmag.com)!
CircuiTree magazine is the only BPA-audited publication serving the vital technical information needs of more than 12,000 professionals within the global PCB industry. CircuiTree serves the industry by providing cutting-edge technical information and features designed to improve the daily processes and business aspects for those involved. CircuiTree is read and utilized by PCB manufacturers/assemblers, suppliers, and OEMs worldwide. www.circuitree.com
Circuit Cellar magazine's unique combination of editorial products and services provides a tremendous value to the embedded systems design community. Through its monthly publication and management of numerous design contests, Circuit Cellar continually assists its global readership and industry vendors by focusing on real-world design techniques and workbench-level advice. www.circuitcellar.com

ConnectorSupplier.com gives you information only a connector industry specialist can know! A twice-monthly e-newsletter and website, ConnectorSupplier.com is the source of communication between the worldwide connector suppliers and its' customers. ConnectorSupplier.com Extra is a new e-newsletter which provides the OEM buyer and engineer with information about wire harness and cable assembly, and other connector-related value-added services. The website includes the most extensive industry links to the connector suppliers that are the connector industry. The subscription is free to industry professionals. www.ConnectorSupplier.com
Design 007 is the leading real-time, online magazine for the global printed circuit board design industry. As part of the I-Connect team, Design007 covers the PCB design and design engineering community through written, audio and Real Time video content in the form of breaking news, technical articles, interviews, analysis and event coverage. www.iconnect007.com
Thousands of IC, PCB and system designers visit EDACafé.com and PCBCafé.com to learn the latest news and research design tools and services. The sites attract more than 100,000 unique visitors each month and leverages TechJobsCafé.com to bring you targeted job opportunities. And daily e-newsletters reach more than 35,000 engineering professionals. For more details visit EDACafe.com.

EDN, the voice of the electronics engineering world, is the global print and Web exchange of ideas, concepts, and insights on how to do the work of electronics engineering. EDN's role is to make the best, most current work by the industry's thought leaders accessible across the full spectrum of design activity.
Low-Power Design is an online magazine providing design articles, news and views for engineers designing green/low-power applications. Our various blogs let you converse directly with our editors-the ex-Editors-in-Chief of Portable Design, EE Times and EDN. Visit us at soon at www.low-powerdesign.com.
Microwave Journal is THE resource for working RF, microwave and wireless engineers, with 50,000 subscribers worldwide and the most respected editorial content in its field. The newly redesigned website features unique resources, hundreds of archived articles, expanded event coverage and a dynamic online Buyer's Guide. www.mwjournal.com
Thousands of IC, PCB and system designers visit EDACafé.com and PCBCafé.com to learn the latest news and research design tools and services. The sites attract more than 100,000 unique visitors each month and leverages TechJobsCafé.com to bring you targeted job opportunities. And daily e–newsletters reach more than 35,000 engineering professionals. For more details visit PCBCafe.com .
Printed Circuit Design & Fab is the leading print and digital publication serving the worldwide PCB design and fabrication markets. It covers the latest technologies, techniques, processes and market conditions. The magazine's 30,000 subscribers include engineers, designers, managers, executives and fabricators at OEMs, design service bureaus and merchant/captive fabrication facilities, and their suppliers. PCD&F is free to qualified professionals. To subscribe, visit pcdandf.com.
For more details visit TechJobsCafe.com .
The GSA mission is to accelerate the growth and increase the return on invested capital of the global semiconductor industry by fostering a more effective fabless ecosystem through collaboration, integration and innovation. It addresses the challenges within the supply chain and provides a platform for meaningful global collaboration, identifies and articulates market opportunities, encourages and supports entrepreneurship, and provides members with comprehensive and unique market intelligence. For additional information about GSA, visit www.gsaglobal.org.
The IBIS Open Forum (30 member companies) develops specifications including the well-established IBIS standard (ANSI/EIA 656B) and related parsing tools. Recent activities include adding PDS features, adding the algorithmic modeling interface to IBIS Version 5.0, issuing the related ibischk5, releasing Touchstone Version 2.0 and developing a related tschk2 parser. Also a new IBIS Quality Specification Version 2.0 has been released. All of these documents and tools enable high-speed digital circuit board design and modeling. For additional information, visit http://www.eigroup.org/ibis/.
Power Architecture technology is behind millions of innovative products, including the world's fastest supercomputers, leading video game consoles, and electronic systems in most of today's car models. Every phone call, email and Web page touches hundreds of Power Architecture systems.
The open Power.org community, formed in 2005, is the organization driving collaborative innovation around Power Architecture technology. Power.org's mission is to optimize interoperability, accelerate innovation and drive increased adoption of this leading processor architecture. For more details, visit www.power.org.
Si2 is a not-for-profit organization of industry-leading semiconductor and EDA tool companies focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems. We believe that through collaborative efforts, the industry can achieve higher levels of systems-on-silicon integration while reducing the cost and complexity of integrating future design systems. Si2 represents members throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit www.si2.org.

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