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As use of artificial intelligence in electronics design and manufacturing becomes a discussion point, it recalls a similar debate from 40 years ago on the impact of a new technology -- SMT -- that...
Speaker :
Richard Weiland
Company :
HZO
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Engineered Reliability: Safeguarding Electrical Components and Devices with Nanocoating Technology, focuses on real-world examples of where significant product challenges were presented (such as...
Speaker :
Ethan Pierce
Company :
Pierce Design
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Maintaining a product is very difficult when:
The source files aren’t available
Only Gerber files and maintenance documents are available
Making a revision to a company-owned product with no...
Speaker :
Fumiyasu Ohbuchi
Company :
Siemens
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With an estimated 80,000 SMTP lines in use standards are a lifeline for line operators and equipment and software developers worldwide. SEMI is developing a suite of standards for SMT and PCBA...
Speaker :
Atar Mittal
Company :
Sierra Circuits
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Signal degradation on PCB transmission lines manifests in many forms: undershoot, overshoot, ringing, pulse shape distortion, switching noise, attenuation, ground bounce, skew, etc. All these can be...
Speaker :
Lee Ritchey
Company :
Speeding Edge
This comprehensive seminar of how to design a PCB stackup to optimize performance while attaining the lowest cost possible. With the advent of very high-speed signaling along with multiple very...
Speaker :
Ralf Bruening
Company :
Zuken
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Supply voltages decrease with every new silicon generation, contributing as well to the goal of reducing power consumption of our electronics. Coupled with the resulting shrinking noise margins for...
Speaker :
Dan Beeker
Company :
NXP Semiconductor
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This presentation will present a simple EM physics and geometry-based approach to designing power distribution networks on PCBs. From input power connection to the IC die, the simple rules discussed...
Speaker :
John Coonrod
Company :
Rogers Corp.
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Understanding millimeter-wave (mmWave) concepts can benefit RF designers, high-speed digital circuit designers and fabricators. In the RF industry, as frequency increases many circuit properties...
Speaker :
Daniel Beeker
Company :
NXP Semiconductor
The material presented will be focused on the physics of electromagnetic energy basic principles, presented in easy-to-understand language with plenty of diagrams. Attendees will discover how...
Speaker :
Eric Bogatin
Company :
Teledyne LeCroy
A differential pair is any two transmission lines. When each transmission line has a return plane, its pretty clear how the differential impedance is related to the geometry. But what if there is no...
Speaker :
Elizabeth Bustamante
Company :
SnapEDA
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When creating libraries, standards are crucial for maintaining consistency, accuracy, and reliability. Yet, even with rigid standards in place, mistakes inevitably creep into such a detail-oriented...
Speaker :
Bill Hargin
Company :
Z-zero
The objective of this tutorial is to guide design teams through the process of evaluating and selecting the right laminate for a design, creating PCB stackups that meet the requirements of complex,...
Speaker :
Daniel Beeker
Company :
NXP Semiconductor
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Raise the shields, Scotty! Starting with some simple definitions for ESD/EOS, this session describes the important differences in the energy involved and the type of damage that can result. The...
Speaker :
Phil Zarrow
Company :
ITM Consulting
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This course is intended to provide the participant an understanding of how design issues interact with the SMT assembly processes. How design affects manufacturing capability and vice versa is...
Speaker :
Lee Ritchey
Company :
Speeding Edge
With the advent of ICs with multiple power rails at very high currents, the design of the power delivery system in a modern product is often more difficult than routing the PCB to ensure good signal...
Speaker :
Michael Ford, and Hemant Shah
Company :
Aegis Software, Cadence
The new IPC Digital Twin standard (IPC-2551) defines an interoperable framework in which thousands of applications from multiple sources work seamlessly together, providing the opportunity for...
