San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 6, 2005 –
Design Chain Associates, LLC is pleased to announce that Ken Stanvick, Senior Vice President, will be the featured speaker in a Mentor Graphics webcast on September 14th. The webcast, entitled The Impact of RoHS on the Design Process, focuses on how the European Unions (EU) restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, or RoHS, directive (2002/95/EC) and similar legislation and regulations around the world impacts electronic design engineering.
Mentor Graphics is the premier provider of board-level electronic design tools to the electronics industry and provides a design for RoHS compliance capability for their products. John Isaac, Mentor Graphics Director of Systems Market Development, identified Ken as a renowned expert on RoHS and stated that Mentor Graphics is pleased to partner with Ken and Design Chain Associates to provide this design-focused webcast. The industry needs more RoHS information specifically targeted at the engineers and designers performing the PCB design.
Ken commented that DCA and I welcome this opportunity to reach out to Mentor Graphics customer base and help them become aware of and prepare for the technical as well as legal impact these new regulations will have on their day-to-day work.
Topics covered will include why the regulation impacts design engineering and specifically what the impact is to:
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