December Issue of The PCB Design Magazine Available Now

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The December issue of The PCB Design Magazine has published and is now available. 

Thermal Management: Sounding the Alarm

This month, Dr. Johannes Adam and the rest of our industry experts sound the alarm about the need for better thermal management in PCB design.

Read all about it this month in The PCB Design Magazine, now on the PCBDesign007 virtual newsstand and available for delivery in your e-mailbox each month by subscribing here.

You can also download the pdf version to your devices for future reference.

12/05/2019 | Pete Starkey, I-Connect007

“How many here can remember manually taped artworks?” No more than three hands were raised in an audience of over 230 at the AltiumLive 2019 European PCB Design Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, as IPC Advanced Certified Interconnect Designer Carl Schattke introduced his keynote, entitled “Making and Breaking the Rules.” Schattke had learned PCB layout as his father’s apprentice, hand-taping several hundred PCB designs in the 1970s.

12/05/2019 | I-Connect007 Editorial Team

Design instructors Rick Hartley and Mike Creeden recently spoke with the I-Connect007 Editorial Team about the current landscape of the PCB design segment. This wide-ranging conversation also focused on the next generation of designers, some promising new laminates, and the need for more communication and collaboration between designers and fabricators.

11/27/2019 | Brent Klingforth, Mentor, a Siemens business

Many PCB design projects miss schedule commitments by 70% due to delayed routing and lack of automation. Moreover, due to late-stage design changes, schedules are not met, and the addition of those new items takes 10 times longer or more to incorporate than if changes were added from the beginning. Fortunately, over the past several years, powerful routing capabilities have been added that allow designers to address a number of specific, critical tasks.