Electronic Design Associates-US, Inc.

The Way We Work:

EDA-US supports your design efforts with project start-up meetings and reviews during the design cycle. Before the project even begins the design manager, David McKay, talks over the project with the engineers in order to make sure that we understand all of the design requirements and to make sure the project will flow smoothly throughout the design process. At each design phase the project will be sent to the engineers for review; these reviews usually occur at the Parts, Placement, Critical Routs, all Routs, and Artwork / Final Review. These design reviews are only in place to help us streamline projects and for engineers to check their work should they need to make an ECO. We are familiar with and use design practices that reduce EMI and mixed signal crosstalk and have also developed methods that allow more than one designer to work on a project at the same time. This method can effectively reduce the scheduled design time for a project, if required.

The Design Staff:

Our design staff includes six designers, all of which have Electrical Engineering degrees. Because our staff have EE degrees this gives them the ability to understand and follow the design flow, dynamics of signal output and input, electrical currents, and how these forces impact signals with relation to the PCB design.

Experience and Expertise:

We have designed many different types of boards including Medical, Power Supplies, High Speed Digital, Mixed Signal, Analog, Computer, Internet and Communications boards. Some of the boards we have designed run with speeds’ as high as 10GHz and used prototype Xilinx and Altera FPGA parts before they were available to the general industry.

We have an Intimate understanding of DDR, QDR, SDRAM, SSRAM, Flash memory, LVDS, Rocket IO, and other High Speed and Digital technologies. And have designed multiple boards using the latest PCI and PCI Express boards.

On one design we worked with a chip manufacturing company to develop design verification projects for testing their chips, as well as boards, for customers to prove designs using the new chips we helped develop.

Our design capability runs from small daughter boards to large, complex designs. One example of a complex design we completed was a high speed design in which the entire board was matched-length and differential pairs. This project had 8187 parts, including 16 BGA's each having 1568 pins; there were 51,153 pads, 16,830 connections with 30 signal planes, all on a 28 layer board with a density of .58. We are very proud to say that this project powered up with no layout, or signal errors on the first fabricated units.

CAD Tools:

Mentor (PADS) Power PCB system (primary), Cadence, Allegro, OrCAD, Power Logic, CAM350 and AutoCAD.

Project Engineer:

David McKay will be your direct contact for scheduling design work. He has worked in the electronics industry as a Technician, Sr. Design Drafter, Sr. PCB Designer, and Design Manager for the past 25 years. In September of 2002, ‘Mack’ started EDA-US, Inc. where we have developed a model design process that has been used successfully for the last 7 years.

Again; we look forward to talking with you further regarding our capabilities and providing PCB design services for your company.

Thank You,

Kevin Rager

Office: (949) 759 9624

Mobile: (949) 922-8997

Kevin.Rager@EDA-Inc.US

Design Manager:

David McKay

Office: (714) 288 8803

Mobile: (714) 309 1258

David.McKay@EDA-Inc.US