Alcatel-Lucent Italia Design Team Wins Mentor TLAs

摘要

Wilsonville, or - A team of designers from Alcatel-Lucent Italia walked away with top honors in Mentor Graphics' 25th annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards. Fabrizio Crippa, Giovanni Villa, Sergio Pirovano, Massimo Pollastri, Stefano Cornini, Luigi Aldeghi, Fabio Villa, Paolo Scotti, Massimiliano Severi, Ivan Mala-spina, Fabio Frigerio and Donato Maggi used Xpedition Enterprise to seal the victory, Mentor said. The program was launched in 1988 to promote and recognize printed circuit board design excellence using Mentor's CAD tools. PCB industry experts judged entries from around the world in six categories representing a variety of industries. Judges included Happy Holden, formerly of Gentex, HP and Merix; Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits technical support director; Pete Waddell, president of UP Media Group, the publisher of PCD&F and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY; Andy Kowalewski, Metamako LP senior interconnect designer; Rick Hartley, L-3 Communications/Avionics Division senior principal engineer; Susy Webb, Fairfield Nodal senior PCB designer; and Charles Pfeil, Mentor's Design Division director of engineering.