Electronics Forum / CAD / October 2008

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.
So where does he end up...

What do Muslims think about Jesus?
I know that my article is not related to this group ,but it might be
useful.
PLEASE read it

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/100308_mit_hacks/?tr=y&au
id=4150169
                                       ...Jim Thompson

The official launch is Oct 13, but you can download it now.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors
For those of you struggling with folks sending you crap
saved in M$'s new lock-in/lockout file formats, here's the good news:

Hi - I'd like to add a model for the International Rectifier IRFBG20
(http://ec.irf.com/v6/en/US/adirect/ir?
cmd=catProductDetailFrame&productID=IRFBG20:) to LTSpice. On the page
linked to there is a spice file with a .SPI extension. I looked through the

I usually work with Cadence and this is the first time I use spice for
years. I have translated and spice model into spectre to simulate it
with cadence and I would like to compare the results with the original
model.

Lately I've been annoyed and frustrated with EAGLE.  No big problems,
just lots of seemingly minor things - like lots of paper cuts.  I
download Pulsonix's demo many months ago and was impressed that it
imported one of my EAGLE projects without too much input from me.  And

I would be thankful if you give my article 5 minute of your value
time.
THANK YOU
Merits of Islam in the Area of Creed

I'm biting the bullet and removing Symantec/Norton Antivirus.
What's the recommended replacement?
                                       ...Jim Thompson

I have been discussing the advantages of a common CAD format for all
manufacturing data for printed circuit boards.  IPC-2581 is a new
standard that is being developed for this.
Does anyone know much about this standard?  I know that it has no

I'm having problems with Orcad Layout. I've desgned a PCB for my
company and I've sent the GERBER files to the factory. But the factory
operator said me that the ground planes I've created on my design
aren't solid planes and they must be solid planes.

Just kicked the tires on gschem, to see if I should switch. Since it
doesn't look like there will ever be a Windows version I am running it
in VirtualBox on an XP machine. Looks pretty good so far. Anyhow, a
question:

Father/daughter talk...
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so
many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal
Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of