July 2019 Issue of Design007 Magazine Available Now

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Reliability has been in the news quite a bit lately, in large part because of microvia failures in military and aerospace PCBs. This month, we look into the secret life of vias as the culprit for failures. 

We also introduce our brand-new Flex007 section, which will be a regular part of Design007 Magazine from now on. Find out more in the July 2019 issue of Design007 Magazine.

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08/31/2019 | I-Connect007

Meet our newest I-Connect007 columnists from NCAB Group! Alifiya Arastu, Jeff Beauchamp, Ruben Contreras, and Harry Kennedy are field application engineers from NCAB Group's technical team. In their columns, they will explore fresh PCB concepts, including medical and telecommunications applications, topics related to RoHS, and much more.

08/20/2019 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 Magazine

Bill Brooks of Nordson ASYMTEK is a long-time PCB designer and one of the first people to teach PCB design courses in a college setting. He recently spoke with the I-Connect007 editorial team about his history in design and his time as a PCB design instructor, the curriculum he developed and taught, and various techniques that might be enacted today to better educate the designers of tomorrow.

08/12/2019 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 Magazine

I attended the recent IPC High-Reliability Forum and Microvia Summit in Baltimore, Maryland. The speakers and panelists focused on a variety of topics, but one issue that kept popping up was the failure of some microvias on military and aerospace PCBs. Fortunately, some smart technologists are focusing on determining the cause of these via failures. I asked Brook Sandy-Smith, IPC’s technical education program manager, to give us a quick wrap-up of this event.