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News Release from: Future Electronics | Subject: IDF CD-ROM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2001
CD-ROM gives designer data in three
languages
Future Electronics, has released the latest edition - Issue 6.0 - of its innovative Interactive Design Focus (IDF) CD-ROM.
Future Electronics, has released the latest edition - Issue 6.0 - of its innovative Interactive Design Focus (IDF) CD-ROM, offering OEMs and contract manufacturers comprehensive engineering support data across a broad range of applications Produced in a unique tri-language format (English, German and French) and available free of charge, Issue 6.0 provides design engineers with up-to-date product application and specification details, building on the user-friendly interactive facilities that have already proved highly successful with previous versions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The need to provide our customers with significant advantage in the race to market has led us to develop a number of innovative and easy-to-use project support tools, including the IDF CD", comments Mark Britton, Future's European Marketing Communications Manager.
"With its tri-language format, this latest issue of the CD demonstrates the pan-European scope of our customer-focused approach.
Its up-to-date product data together with the in-depth design support offered by our engineering teams, provides all Future customers with a fully accurate technology roadmap and a considerable benefit in the product design cycle".
With a simple, intuitive navigation facility to provide optimum ease of use, the CD's expanded features include a tutorial on Motorola's recently launched 16bit Flash DSP product; while a block diagram library focuses on component applications in lighting, USB, SMPS, datacomms, portable equipment and consumer.
This is in addition to the detailed search for parts function by application and manufacturer (including new franchise additions National Semiconductor, Intersil, Agilent, Zilog and Weimuller), integral links to manufacturer web sites, application notes, and general part descriptions and datasheets which are also available as on previous issues.
The user can move through a broad menu of Future's operations and services, highlighting inventory, training and supply chain management programmes.
These range from design cycle management, quality assurance and design kit solutions to Future's TSM programme and access to technical resources.
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