What experience do you have, TechNet members? I'm sure many of you are active yourselves in this Lucent thing. For selling more CADs or making better technicians?/Ingemar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague: ...2nd Announcement... Lucent Technologies Hosted First Ever Paradigm Shifting Industry Initiative Live IWPC EPDeS (tm) Demonstration & Interactive Technical Workshop November 15-16, 1999 Murray Hill, NJ USA To reserve your seat at this demonstration & workshop, please contact Don Brown, TEL: 215-491-2113 [log in to unmask] For Workshop & Hotel Details, go to: <http://206.168.141.238/epdes_3_demo.htm> http://206.168.141.238/epdes_3_demo.htm Please forward this announcement to an interested friend, colleague or supplier Lucent Technologies and approximately 50 other companies at all levels of the supply chain (EDA Tool suppliers, OEM's, materials suppliers, circuit makers, component suppliers) will gather in Murray Hill, NJ, November 15-16, 1999 for the 3rd Electronic Product Design System (tm) (EPDeS (tm)) Interactive Technical Workshop, organized by the International Wireless Packaging Consortium (tm) (IWPC (tm)), featuring the First Ever Live "Capability" Demonstration of this paradigm shifting industry initiative. The EPDeS 3 Workshop follows the EPDeS 1 Workshop, hosted by Nokia Research Center, Helsinki Finland, October 1998 and the EPDeS 2 Workshop, hosted by Qualcomm Corp., February 1999, LaJolla, CA. This EPDeS demonstration represents the next step of literally hundreds of hours of intense industry discussions with virtually every level of the supply chain. Join the following companies who will take an active role in this Live Demonstration (subject to change): (in alphabetical order) OEM's Lucent Technologies Nokia Corp. Qualcomm Corp. Raytheon Corp. EDA Suppliers Ansoft CAD Design Software Cadence Corp. HP EESof Mentor Graphics SmartLynx Corp. Materials Suppliers Dupont GIL Heraeus Rogers Corp. Taconic Corp. Goal -- EPDeS Initiative: To dramatically reduce time to market and reduce costs of wireless products... ...by providing the designer with everything s/he needs on the desktop, with a few mouse-clicks, to gain access to current and advanced materials data, design rules, models and component data, all in a format which can be used directly, by existing mechanical, thermal, electrical and EM design tools. And, for EDA Tool files to be seamlessly transported from one EDA platform to another (mechanical, thermal, electrical and EM) IWPC Interactive Technical Workshops are available to IWPC members only. IWPC Workshops are highly interactive and are attended by senior technology and business leaders who make a commitment to forwarding advanced packaging technology. The International Wireless Packaging Consortium is a pro-active organization of WIRELESS AND RF OEM's and their SUPPLIERS, with 73+ members, worldwide. Our mission is to facilitate communication up and down the supply chain to: ** Reduce Costs ** Improve Performance ** Decrease Time to Market ...with an emphasis on packaging and interconnect technologies. To reserve your seat, please contact: Don Brown, Director IWPC TEL: 215-491-2113 FAX: 215-491-2115 [log in to unmask] www.iwpc.org <http://www.iwpc.org/> mailing address 1745 Appaloosa Rd. Warrington, PA 18976 USA ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################