Abbey, I know Cadence has a program called "Retool to Work", which offers free training to qualified candidates who are unemployed and need to advance their skill set in electronic design. Your friend would have to qualify, and they only allow two people from the program in each class, assuming the class isn't full of paying customers. http://www.cadence.com/support/education/retool.aspx Alan Abdulrahman Rafiq wrote: >To whom it May concern, > >I am looking for some information for a freind, who is looking to get >back into the industry after taking a break to complete his advance >degree....he is looking for information on any inexpensive training >courses offered in Xtk, Hspice, SpectraQUEST, Spectra, Allegro, >etc...basically short inexpensive SI Tool's courses for someone who >was in industry, then took a break to go and attain an advance degree, >and is looking to get back into the industry? > >His main goal is to try and brush up and update some of his skills >with several of the SI related tools....also timing analysis tools >such as BLAST. > >Thanks, > >Abbey > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu