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At the Cisco Systems in Richfield, Ohio
Why Should I attend?
October 17th will be a day of workshops at the 2006 OMI A SLUG conference. We are featuring Lee Hill of SILENT in a three hour EMI workshop. In conjunction with the EMI workshop, Mentor will do a presentation of their EMI design rule checker, Quiet Expert.
Also, Kendell Hiles of Mentor will be doing
a two hour workshop on the Automation Programming interface. This
interface will allow you to write programs that act on your Mentor designs to
extract data, to manipulate objects and to automate tasks.
On Oct. 18th, Mentor Graphics will be showing us what is new and cool in their
Expedition Enterprise software and will be presenting a roadmap for the future of
their products. The 2005.1 release has been delivered so come and learn how the
changes in this release will affect you and your company. Attendees can ask
questions about the future of BoardStation and where Mentor sees it in their
product line up.
At the last U2U conference it became apparent that getting access to DxDatabook
was one of the main reasons that people were thinking of making the move from
the Design Capture - Expedition flow to the DxDesigner - Expedition flow.
DxDatabook could be used not only to get information about parts from the
central Mentor library, but also to extract information from corporate
databases. In this vain Ahmed Hamza of Mentor showing us how to attach
DxDatabook to an ODBC compliant database.
The boss always wants the board routed faster. Mentor as an answer for
that: Xtreme AR. Now you can have multiple autorouters working on a PCB
design at the same time. If your dead line is king, Xtreme AR may be the
product for you. Charles Pfeil will be presenting.
Some day there will be an elegant way to automatically place components into a
printed circuit design with a usable pattern. DesignAdvance has been working on
a product that may be the future of this software category. This
session should offer a fascinating look into intelligent component placement
that is assisted by next generation software.
More and more designs are using programmable parts so we believe that it is time
to take a new look a ModelSim. Now that you have generated at description
of your design, you need to do verification and debug of the design through
simulation.
You are running DxDesigner - Expedition now but you still have OrCAD, P-CAD and
Protel databases for current products. Expedition does not come with any
translators to import boards from these CAD systems but you would like to move
those designs into Expedition. This session will
cover how to use the PADS translators to move these databases into DxDesigner
and P-CAD and Protel layouts into Expedition. Avid Technologies will
show us how.
This is the third year that Cisco Systems, in Richfield, Ohio, is hosting the
OMI A SLUG conference. We would like to thank Jeff Porter and his group for
again affording us the use of their excellent facility!
If you have not already done so, you should take a look at the Mentor Users
Group WEB site. If you choose to register at the MUG site, you should sign up
for the e-mail notifications that cover any of the forums that you use. The Exploders are
threaded e-mail discussions on problems and solutions of Mentor software
products and technique tips that can make your life easier.
http://www.mugweb.org/
What's Happening?
8:30 AM - Registration
9:00 AM - Opening Comments, New and Old Business by
OMI A SLUG Chairperson: Dwain Strang
9:15 AM - Keynote Speaker
10:00 AM to 12:30 - The Morning Presentations
12:30 - Lunch
1:30 PM - The Election of Officers and Message from MUG
1:40 PM - Roundtable Discussions (Systems, CAE and Physical Design)
2:00 PM - Challenge the Management
2:30 PM to 6:00 - The Afternoon Presentations
For a more detailed view of the meeting day please see the
Day at a Glance
page.
Agenda
The EMC Workshop by Lee Hill
Mentor Graphics will be presenting a three-hour EMI workshop by Lee Hill of SILENT.
Lee Hill is a noted lecturer on the subject of EMI and Mentor Graphics is offering our membership a great opportunity to learn from his expertise. With the IC manufacturers shrinking die geometries and producing ever faster parts, it seems that everybody is now or soon will be designing high speed boards with the resulting EMI problems. Come, see and learn from this industry expert.
Electronic
Product Design and Retrofit for EMC
EMC is the study of
what is not on the schematic.
In this session, Lee Hill,
founder of Silent Solutions
(www.silent-solutions.com), will
provide an abbreviated 3 hour version of his 3-day seminar on designing for EMC
- a unique blend of applications, hardware demonstrations, and supporting theory
for both beginning and advanced students.
What You Will Learn:
- Identify noise sources and apply solutions to EMC problems.
- Distinguish between useful and invalid EMI "rules of thumb" and design hints from books and application notes.
- Recognize and reduce the
efficiency of the most common EMI antenna
structures that cause emissions and immunity problems. - Information will be provided regarding an upcoming 3-day EMC seminar in Pittsburgh.
Intended Audience:
This seminar will provide circuit design, PCB, and EMC engineers with a
high-level introduction that will help in the recognition and resolution
of common electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) problems in PC boards,
connectors, and cables
How do I register for the meeting?
To register for the October 17-18, 2006 OMI A SLUG meeting in Richfield, Ohio please fill out the attached registration form and send or FAX it to or get in touch with:Dwain Strang
2244 Yellow Creek Road
Akron, Ohio 44333
(330) 869-0792 Phone
dastrang@aol.com
Michael Haney
Univ. of Illinois
457 Loomis Lab
1110 W. Green St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
m-haney@uiuc.edu
If you would like to pre-register to attend the OMI A SLUG meeting, the cost is $55.00 per person for meeting day or $55 for the class day.
It will be $85 per person for pre-registration for both days, the class and the meeting.
For registration at the door the day of the meeting or the class, the cost will be $75.00 per person per day.
Please make checks payable to: O. M. I. Area Slug. We are sorry but we are not able to accept credit cards for payment.
There will be a full refund until Oct. 1, 2006. NO refund Oct. 2, 2006 or after.
The Fall '06 Registration Form
How do I get there?
Cisco Systems is south of Cleveland and just north of Akron near the I-77 / I-271 interchange.
Cisco Systems is located in Richfield, Ohio. Cisco can be reached by taking the Wheatley Rd. exit from I-77 just south of the I-271 interchange and from that exit going west on Wheatley until you come to Brecksville Rd. You should be able to see the Cisco System building to the southwest. Turn south onto Brecksville Rd. and west at the Stonegate commercial park entrance a block down the road. Cisco will be on your right.
Where can I stay?
This year the 2006 OMI A SLUG meeting will be held at a business not a hotel. So you will not be able to book a room at the conference site. If you will need a place to stay, you will have to book a room at a hotel.
There are no hotels at the Cisco site. To the south at the I-77 / Rt. 18 exit there are lots hotels.
Holiday Inn Akron West 330-666-4131
Residence Inn by Marriott 330-666-4811
Extended Stay America 330-666-3177
Best Western Inn 330-670-0888
Comfort Inn 330-666-5050
Fairfield Inn by Marriott 330-668-2700
This is the Montrose area and there you will find restaurants, movies and shopping.
The OMI A SLUG Officers:
| Name/ Position | Company | Telephone | FAX | |
| Dwain Strang Chair |
. | (330) 869-0792 | dastrang@aol.com | |
| Dwain Strang Publicist |
. | (330) 869-0792 | dastrang@aol.com | |
| Michael Haney Treasurer |
Univ. Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | (217) 244-6425 | (217) 333-4990 | m-haney@uiuc.edu |
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