Register Now For DownStream’s Oct. 24 Webinar

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Now is the time to experience BluePrint-PCB. It's a revolutionary solution to address all your PCB documentation needs. And now with Release 6, it is even more remarkable.

• 3D visualization and documentation of manufacturing data allowing users to minimize manufacturing defects and delays in production
• A newly designed user interface common across all DownStream products
• A common database between all DownStream products so data can be shared seamlessly
• Technology and support for 64 bit

DownStream has created a truly integrated 2D/3D environment for improved PCB post processing. BluePrint-PCB 6.0 is designed to automate, streamline and dramatically improve PCB documentation.

Date and Time

Thursday, October 24
6:00AM PDT/9:00AM EDT (2:00PM GMT/3:00PM CEST)
11:00AM PDT/2:00PM EDT

To register for this event, click here.

04/30/2021 | Ed Acheson, Cadence Design Systems

With the current design transfer formats, rigid-flex designers face a hand-off conundrum. You know the situation: My rigid-flex design is done so now it is time to get this built and into the product. Reviewing the documentation reveals that there are tables to define the different stackup definitions used in the design. The cross-references for the different zones to areas of the design are all there, I think. The last time a zone definition was missed, we caused a costly mistake.

03/23/2021 | Tamara Jovanovic, Happiest Baby

In the PCB design cycle, it is so easy to unintentionally introduce “garbage” into your system. Unless you have time to extensively check everything you bring in from an external source, it is very likely that something will not match up with your design data. In the end, this means you’ll have to put more work into your design and basically reverse-engineer a part that was supposed to save you time and effort.

03/11/2021 | Patty Goldman, I-Connect007

"I heard about IPC when I started a new job at UNISYS after graduating college. I moved from ASIC design to printed circuit boards," said Karen McConnell after being inducted into the Raymond E. Pritchard Hall of Fame. "At the time, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, there were rumors going around that printed circuit boards were going to disappear, and ASICs were going to take over the world. But something in printed circuit boards fascinated me. I minored in robotics in college as an electrical engineer and the data used to fabricate, assemble and test the boards is actually all robotic language. I was hooked."