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Why Should I attend?

Good day:

The Ohio Michigan Indiana Area Special Local Users' Group is announcing that our 2007 conference will be held at Cisco Systems in Richfield, Ohio on October 16th and 17th. Please make time in your schedule to attend. The next U2U conference is a year from November so there will be little chance to find out about what is going on with the Mentor products other than the OMI conference.

October 16th will be a day of workshops at the 2007 OMI A SLUG conference. We are featuring Happy Holden of Mentor Graphics in a workshop: Implementing HDI in Your Design. 

Attend the Workshops 

Implementing HDI in Your Design 

- The Need for HDI in Design
- The Barriers That Through-Holes Create
- Signal Integrity Issues with Through-Holes
- Applications of HDI (microvias)
- BGA Design Challenges, Board Stackup, Design Rules and Layout 
- Microvia structures, Simplifying multilayers by reducing layers, 
- Creating Boulevards to Increase Routing Density
- High-Speed Problems Overcome by Microvias
- Review of IPC Standards for Advanced Interconnects and HDI.
      IPC-2226 Design standards 
- HDI Analysis Methodology 

The PCB manufacturer Coretec to give the lecture: 
HDI & Microvias

This will be a comprehensive look at the world of HDI & Microvias. Learn how to utilize more effectively this technology. This seminar includes design constraints, stackup options, cost drivers and DFM considerations. 

Our keynote speaker will be Christine Egli of Mentor Graphics. She will go over the recent changes to SupportNet. She will also tell us about Mentor's continuing quest to be the industries top provider of EDA support - online or phone.

We are all waiting for the arrival of the 2007 version of the Expedition tools set. Mentor will be giving us a preview of what we may find when we take delivery.

The design of RF circuitry on a PCB, especially in products such as a base station, is becoming increasingly difficult and time consuming. In the past, this process has required two design environments (tools, databases, libraries) with inefficient ASCII interfaces. With the 2007 releases of Expedition Enterprise and Board Station XE , Mentor will deliver a radically new set of functionality and new design paradigm. The EE and XE flows now include the capability to design the RF circuitry (schematic and physical) including database and library. A new dynamic integration (replacing the ASCII interfaces) with ADS and AWR provides efficient links to leading RF simulation tools without the need for duplicate databases and libraries. In addition the product includes vast improvements in RF Layout capabilities specifically designed for producing accurate RF Layout without respins. Some of the critical RF Layout features are: full RF parametric shapes support, synchronizing with Agilent libraries to access latest RF models, specific clearances for RF circuits, RF mitered traces and easy to use stitching algorithms for RF ground planes. This session will discuss the new functionality and process in detail targeted at RF design users.

Many companies are considering making the move from Design Capture to DxDesigner and some companies are making that move. We will have a presentation by Tammie Warner of Mentor support on what companies are reporting to her about their experiences with the translator and what library procedures are changing to accommodate the DxDesigner change. Tammie should have the help of Cisco Systems with their discussing Cisco's move. 

Tom Ferguson of Cisco will reprise his Copy/Move Circuit presentation that he did for U2U on Wednesday .

PowerFile delivers active archiving appliances for permanent storage of digital content and assets. PowerFile storage solutions combine the speed and simplicity of online access with better economics and integrity compared to traditional archives, empowering organizations of all sizes to efficiently manage, secure, and preserve valuable digital assets. 

Please remember to bring your USB drives to the OMI A SLUG conference so that the proceeding can be loaded into them on Wednesday. We have a limited amount of drives left and those will be made available to people that did not get one last year. 
Yes, we have a list.

This is the fourth 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 threaded 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?

For a more detailed view of the meeting day please see the Day at a Glance page.

Agenda

Implementing HDI in Your Design 
Featuring Industry Expert - Happy Holden

As finer pitch devices all come into common use, for higher and higher speed logic, the need for advanced printed wiring boards (PWB) is essential - - both as the board and as the package. This short presentation looks at advanced technologies for THE INTERCONNECTION of AREA ARRAY COMPONENTS, from ASIC packaging, portable products, high performance computing, and telecom to dense system-in-package (SiP) modules. PWB wiring modeling, design rules, and BGA routing of PWB structures (blind, buried and microvias) will be examined and compared. The tutorial will define how to select breakout patterns with boulevard routing, circuit routing guidelines, manufacturing process features, microvia-HDI routing issues and techniques for widely accepted fine pitch and BGA components. 1.0 mm, 0.8 mm, 0.65 and 0.5 mm fine-pitch components are the focus of design rules and layer assignments, as well as FPGAs and ASIC to 3200 pins. Routing techniques using blind vias will show how layers can be reduced by as much as 3X, with the associated cost reductions. Some HDI design techniques will emphasize the improved electrical performance and signal integrity. The overview of IPC Standards for HDI technology is particularly useful for those not familiar with this technology. Participants are encouraged to bring along their technical questions for discussion.

HDI & Microvias
Presented by PCB manufacturer Coretec  

This will be a comprehensive look at the world of HDI & Microvias. Learn how to utilize more effectively this technology. This seminar includes design constraints, stackup options, cost drivers and DFM considerations. 

How do I register for the meeting?

The Fall '07 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 2007 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.

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