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We’re very excited to announce the latest release of the Xuropa Platform.

We’ve been working hard to bring new and improved features to help you be more effective in your work and career.

Release objectives:

1. Increase platform interactivity
2. Make it easier to find electronic design professionals
3. Make it easier to manage your Professional Profile
4. Make it easier to build professional networks

We’re most excited about our new Professional Network Map tool.

Xuropa Electronic Design Community Network Map

You will find dozens of enhancements throughout the Xuropa Platform.  However, here is a list of the major features we’ve added and enhanced in this release.

Summary of New and Enhanced Features

1. Visual Professional Network Mapping
   • Network distance mapped by career metrics: Specializations, Skills, Employers, Product Reviews, Ratings, and many more
   • Understand the proximity of connections within your Professional Network
   • Explore the entire community for proximate members you’re not yet connected to
   • Explore Professional Profiles, send messages and make connections to build your network
2. Enhanced Professional Profiles
   • Upload your photograph
   • Easier user interface
   • Enhanced LinkedIn profile import
   • Enhanced Skills and Specialization creation
   • Product Rating and Review linking
3. Community Search & Navigation
   • Find colleagues to make connections
   • Find professionals with the skills you need
   • Find professionals with the experience you’re looking for
   • Navigate the community via your Professional Network Map
   • Navigate the community by Field and Specialization
4. Contact Database Import and Upload
   • Import your contacts from LinkedIn to quickly invite professionals to connect
   • Upload your contacts database to quickly invite professionals to connect
   • Manage your connections and contacts easily
5. Profile Statistics
   • Increase statistics to increase network proximity and better promote your expertise
   • Your Specializations
   • Your Skills
   • Your Product Reviews
   • Your Product Ratings
   • Your Network Connections

Sign in or join the Xuropa Electronic Design Community today and start using the tools to build your career, try new technologies and find new team members.

- The Xuropa Team

Posted under Features, Xuropa

While doing some research recently I was amazed to find that there isn’t a single complete and accurate listing of all of the tools available in the EDA industry.  Did I miss something?

Gary Smith has a list of companies and where they fit within the design flow.  While a good starting point, there are no tools and unfortunately the list is “frozen in amber” as a pdf file.  There is a partial lists over at OCP-IP, but again it is semi-frozen as a static html page.

But of course, to build and maintain a list of the hundreds of development tools in the industry would be a monumental task!  Add in all of the new IP and embedded software tools and to accurately maintain this list would be a full-time job for quite a few people!

This is where the power of the community can leveraged!

There is an open, member-editable catalog of technology within the Xuropa Online Community.  Anyone can add a favorite tool, piece of IP or a chip or system.  A start has been made, but it needs your help!

Sign-in to the Xuropa Platform here and from the landing page go to Products>Add Product in the drop down menus.

The electronic design technology landscape is too dynamic for a static catalog, but together we can make a member managed catalog to bring greater visibility and understanding to the industry.

Register a product you’ve used or developed and be recognized as a contributor!

Posted under Features, industry, marketing

With today’s release we officially bring the Xuropa Platform out of beta.

First of all, a huge “Thank you!” to everyone that has contributed over the past several months as we put some very important pieces in place before this release.

We have been very lucky to have an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and extremely helpful group of supporters that have provided feedback, bug reports and all manner of input on everything from color schemes to security - sincerely, thank you.  Please keep it coming!

Within the Xuropa Platform you will find one of the most complete integrations of professional networking and collaboration tools on the web - and it’s all targeted specifically at the electronic design industry!

We will be describing the features and functions of the Xuropa Platform in other posts, but at the highest level, here are some of the things you can do to help your career, your project and the industry as a whole.

Promote yourself with the most detailed technical professional profiles on the web.

Keep informed using your customized news channels and the growing company and product directories.

Learn new products as they become available in Xuropa’s Online Labs.

Build your industry specific professional network to keep focused on what you need in your career.

Contribute to the industry by submitting product reviews and ratings.

Promote your products by registering them for free in the product directory.

We’re implementing features and functions that bring together engineers, information and products to make you more effective in what you do.

Welcome!

Posted under News