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.

09/17/2018 | Bill Acito, Cadence Design Systems

The challenges faced by the PCB designers of today are significant. If we examine the breadth of designs, we find ever-increasing data rates and more high-speed signal routing that drive additional challenges meeting signal-quality requirements, including reflection signal loss and crosstalk issues. At the same time, designers are being asked to complete designs in shorter cycle times and in smaller form factors. They must come up with new and more complex routing strategies to better control impedance and crosstalk. Manual implementation is often time-consuming and prone to layout errors.

09/12/2018 | Dave Wiens, Mentor, a Siemens Business

PCB designers working with flex or rigid-flex technology face many potential risks that can derail a project and cause costly design failures. As the name implies, flex and rigid-flex designs comprise a combination of rigid and flexible board technologies made up of multiple layers of flexible circuit substrates, attached internally and/or externally to one or more rigid boards. These combinations provide flexibility for the PCB designer working on dense designs that require a specific form factor. Rigid-flex allows the PCB design team to cost-efficiently apply greater functionality to a smaller volume of space, while providing the mechanical stability required by most applications.

08/20/2018 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 Magazine

Millennials are the future of our industry. What does this mean for the PCB design community? How do we attract more of these smart young people to the world of PCB design? I asked Paul Musto, director of marketing for Mentor’s Board Systems Division, to explain the company’s initiatives aimed at drawing more young people into PCB design