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Beyond Design
Column from: Barry Olney
Barry Olney is managing director of In-Circuit Design Pty Ltd (ICD), Australia. The company develops the ICD Stackup Planner and ICD PDN Planner software, is a PCB Design Service Bureau and specializes in board level simulation.
Barry began designing high-speed multilayer PCBs in 1987 for broadband telecommunications products and has since focused on developing his skills and sharing his knowledge of PCB design, signal integrity and EMC design techniques with other designers.
Barry has presented training courses in Advanced Design for SMT since 1994 and more recently, the Fundamentals of High-Speed Design as well as application training courses for VeriBest and Mentor Graphics. His clients have ranged from telecommunication giants to startups and include Westinghouse, British Aerospace, Fujitsu, Nokia, Siemens VDO and Defense Science and Technology Organization, to name just a few.
Through the years, ICD has received an Engineering Excellence award for the SparcPlug Station server, Top Worldwide Business Partner award by VeriBest Inc, Top 2005 Asian Distributor Marketing and Top 2005 Worldwide Distributor Marketing by Mentor Graphics Board System Division.