This is a report on the result of exercising various ECAD applications, primarily Mentor Board Design, Simulation, and Design Capture, with the date set forward to January 2000. Honeywell, SASSO, has set up an isolated HP test network hosting the published Year 2000 ready version of most of its ECAD applications. To insure tests do not accidentally call an older version without being detected, only the Year 2000 Ready version has been installed. A total of 51 vendor tool sets have been installed. Design test cases were developed to exercise a majority of the tools.

Bio

Scott Nichols is the Electrical Engineering Tools Focus for Honeywell's Space and Strategic Systems Operation, SASSO, in Clearwater, Florida. He has held this position 12 years. In his capacity as EE Tools Focus, Scott has helped steer SASSO's Printed Wiring Assembly process from a purely manual effort to a nearly fully automated effort and acts as the user voice within the engineering workstation support department. SASSO's electrical engineering processes are built around the Mentor tool set. Prior to becoming a CAD specialist, Scott had 17 years experience as a test and manufacturing engineer with an additional combined 5 years experience as a circuit designer, quality engineer, and reliability engineer. Scott is a professional engineer and holds a BSE degree, from the University of South Florida.