INFORMATION
Alex's Electronics Resource Library - An Online Guide to Useful Electrical and Electronic Information

Chip Directory - Numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of chip manufacturers, manufacturers of controller embedding tools, electronics books, CD-ROM's, magazines, WWW sites and much more.

The Electronics Manufacturing Guide from CircuitWorld Online Services, a leading provider of information and commercial services to the Electronics Manufacturing Industry. The Electronics Manufacturing Guide offers you the best in online resources. 

Webopedia - The only online dictionary and search engine you'll ever need for computer and Internet technology.
 

ORGANIZATIONS
IPC - Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits  - The IPC has been and still is the only trade association that brings together all of the players in the electronics industry: designers, board manufacturers, assembly companies, suppliers, and original equipment manufacturers.

SMTA - The Surface Mount Technology Association - The SMTA enables its members to achieve success in the electronics industry by providing education, training, networking, and access to knowledge.
 

SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS
Mentor Graphics Corporation (formerly Innoveda, Inc. and PADS Software, Inc.) - Mentor Graphics offers a complete line of interconnect software solutions to design, verify, and manufacture complex electronic systems.

PentaLogix LLC (formerly Lavenir Technology, Inc.) - PentaLogix LLC is a new company founded by former employees of Lavenir Technology. They provide world class CAM and Test software including ViewMaster, a pre-production graphical editor for Gerber, HPGL, Gyrex, Electromask and NC Drill data.
 

SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS
Adobe™ Acrobat Reader - Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.  Download this free of charge. 

FTP Explorer - FTP Explorer is a 32-bit FTP application that is extremely simple to operate, and makes moving files between the Internet and your computer as simple as local file manipulation. Several features of FTP Explorer make it stand head and shoulders above most other FTP programs that are currently available.

PKZIP -  is a powerful utility that provides many functions for data compression, file archival, file management, and distribution. PKZIP has led the way in industry standard .ZIP format compression since 1989, when PKWARE introduced the .ZIP file format.

ViewMate  - This program is a smaller version of the PentaLogix ViewMaster software that we use to inspect your finished product and is a must have for those unfamiliar with the Gerber data format.

WinZIP - WinZip is the original and most popular of all Windows Zip file utilities.  Download WinZip 9.0 SR-1 for Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT 4.0 or XP.