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News Release from: Ansoft Europe | Subject: Design kit for ALIVH boards
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2007
Design kit explores ALIVH capabilities
A design kit for Any Layer Interstitial Via Hole (ALIVH) boards can be used with Nexxim, HFSS and Ansoft Designer software.
Panasonic and Ansoft have released a new design kit for Any Layer Interstitial Via Hole (ALIVH) boards for use with Nexxim, HFSS and Ansoft Designer software The design kit can be used together with Panasonic surface mount technology (SMT) components, such as varistors and common-mode noise filters
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Panasonic is pleased to complement Ansoft's powerful simulation technologies with an ALIVH design kit together with our most advanced surface-mount components", says Naoto Okamura, group leader, Device Application Centre at Panasonic.
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"We look forward to expanding all the possibilities with Ansoft for board design to extend the library in the future to include LCR composites, noise-suppression components, baluns, SAW devices and power supplies to benefit our mutual customers".
Using Panasonic's ALIVH technology engineers can design circuit boards that are more compact because via holes can be placed in all layers of the board.
These compact board designs allow engineers to add greater circuit capabilities due to the increased real estate and to shorten the effective trace length for high-speed signal circuits, resulting in greater performance.
Lighter weight is achieved by applying non-woven aramid reinforcement and via holes free of copper plating.
ALIVH board applications include portable communication information terminal devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs; small-sized electronic equipment, such as digital video cameras; and package substrates, such as multi-chip modules (MCMs).
The Panasonic ALIVH design kit is available in scalable form, allowing users to modify board stack-ups to maximise the performance of printed circuit boards based on the Panasonic ALIVH technology.
The design kit is available from Panasonic's Web site and is easy to download and configure for use within Nexxim and Ansoft Designer.
This site provides Ansoft customers with the ability to search for components by name, performance data or other specification.
Panasonic will maintain model support and upgrades, and Ansoft will address all customer support for Nexxim and Ansoft Designer.
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