Interview with Bill Hargin as published in DesignNews: Two engineers have advice for engineers who need more accurate characterization of PCB laminate materials: Make your own measurements. Engineers who use laminate materials for printed circuit boards need to be aware that the manufacturers’ numbers describing those materials may not always be correct. “The buyer needs…
Read MoreRedmond, Washington, September 30, 2020 – Z-zero announces that it has collaborated with Mentor, a Siemens business, to develop the electronic manufacturing industry’s first comprehensive, bidirectional software solution that bridges the gap between designers and fabricators for the exchange of material-based stackups. Based on Siemens’ ODB++Design open data structure, the new solution helps customers transfer printed…
Read MoreRedmond, Washington, December 31, 2019 – Z-zero announces the release of Z-planner EnterpriseTM, a field-solver based stackup planning and material selection software that is optimized for front-to-back PCB design and signal-integrity flow.
Read MoreRedmond, Washington, April 30, 2019 – Z-zero announced today the third major release of its PCB stackup planning software products: Z-planner, for PCB stackup design and materials selection; and Z-solver, for quick, accurate impedance and insertion loss results. New PCB Stackup Features in 2019.1 Z-planner’s patent-pending automated material matching utility—new with 2019.1—allows hardware designers to match…
Read MoreRedmond, Washington, December 31, 2018 – Z-zero announced today the second major release of its PCB stackup planning software products—Z-planner, for PCB stackup design and materials selection; and Z-solver, for quick, accurate impedance and insertion loss results. “Survival in the world of high-speed design requires accurate prediction of electrical performance based on design and material properties.…
Read MoreRedmond, Washington, November 1, 2017– Z-zero announced today the launch of two new software products —Z-planner, for PCB stackup design and materials selection; and Z-solver, for quick, accurate impedance and insertion loss results. Z-planner is a field-solver based PCB stackup planning and materials selection tool that’s optimized for hardware engineering teams that may or may…
Read MoreZ-zero, based in
Redmond, Washington, develops
PCB stackup planning and
material-selection software
for electronic-system design.
