Company History |
An industry innovator since its founding more than 40 years ago, Douglas Electronics Inc. was one of the first companies to provide a professional CAD/CAM tool for personal computers. Today, Douglas offers project managers, engineers, and product designers the industry's most complete microcomputer-based electronics design and manufacturing system, offering workstation performance at desktop prices.
Douglas management initially focused its attention on the production of printed circuit breadboards for use in prototyping electronic devices. The growing demand for customized versions of these breadboards prompted the company to develop a personal computer-based software solution for custom printed circuit board design. In 1984, Douglas Electronics released its first desktop printed circuit board layout package. The original PCB design package was a single-disk system that provided engineers with an easy way to develop PC board designs and quickly calculate the cost to manufacture them. By sending the design data to Douglas, engineers were able to receive completed boards in as little as three days. Over the years our CAD/CAM software has continued to enjoy ongoing development and support, and today the Douglas CAD/CAM System is a very mature and comprehensive suite of design tools for the Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems that includes schematic capture, digital simulation, programmable logic design, PCB layout, and autorouting, with quick-turn manufacturing services available directly from the high-level design files. It's a complete and easy to use end-to-end solution.
Douglas also continues to manufacture and stock a broad line of breadboards and other prototyping products including backplanes, card cages, adapter boards, and connector systems, for off-the-shelf solutions to a variety of packaging requirements. Included in this category are some newer specialty items such as the MiniBoard and HandyBoard robotics controller PCBs, and a variety of PC/104 products.
We have also developed a disk duplication system, which is Macintosh based, but which copies both Mac and DOS disks efficiently and economically.
Thanks for your interest in Douglas Electronics, and please feel welcome to use the links below to locate more detailed information on any of our many fine products and services.
Douglas Electronics, Inc.
2777 Alvarado Street
San Leandro, CA 94577
USA
Voice: +1 510 483-8770
Fax: +1 510 483-6453
BBS: +1 510 483-6548
info@douglas.com
http://www.douglas.com
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