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.

12/04/2018 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 Magazine

The IPC Designers Council is launching a new column in Design007 Magazine: “The Digital Layout.” I recently asked two IPC Designers Council (DC) Executive Board members, Mike Creeden and Stephen Chavez, to discuss the content and objective of their new column, and how this all ties in with the DC.

12/03/2018 | Kelly Dack, CID+, EPTAC

Working for an EMS provider, I am often asked to make sense of customers’ PCB design data packages that must be audited for completeness and manufacturability. Quite often, EMS operations receive data to produce a PCB design and begin the auditing process, only to be called off due to customer changes. Sometimes the data is incomplete, or it is missing one or more of the data files required to fabricate the PCB at the supplier. There are also occasions where a customer has sent files that were supposed to be the updated version but were not changed at all.

12/03/2018 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 Magazine

When we started planning this issue on design data, I knew we’d have to speak with PCB designer and EPTAC design instructor Steph Chavez. In this interview, he explains some of the biggest issues related to good design data handoff, and he offers some ways forward.