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IPC APEX EXPO 2024: A Preview of the Women in Electronics Reception

03/18/2024 | Alicia Balonek, IPC
This year’s Women in Electronics Reception is scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9. It will feature a panel discussion led by IPC Hall of Famer Karen McConnell, Northrop Grumman, on work-life balance. Panelists include:

The Survey Said: What Does It Take to Become a Great Designer?

03/14/2024 | Andy Shaughnessy, PCB Design007
What does it take to become a great designer? After all, there isn’t exactly a critical path to becoming a great designer. How does a designer qualify as “great” in the first place? We posed that question to our PCB designer readers in a recent survey, and, as usual, the readers did not disappoint.

The Survey Said: What’s the Difference Between Good and Great Designers?

03/06/2024 | Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007
With many PCB designers facing retirement, there’s been a lot of discussion about how we’ll replace this “brain drain” and what it means to be great PCB designer. Think about it: What’s the difference between a good designer and a truly great designer? We posed that question to our PCB designer readers in a recent survey.

Your Thermal Designs Are Inefficient

12/07/2023 | Douglas Brooks, Consultant, and Johannes Adam, ADAM Research
Most designers rely on the trace widths suggested in IPC-2152, the “bible” for calculating high-current trace widths (unless you have read our book). IPC-2152 is the best, most thoroughly researched study of trace currents and temperatures available. But it does have some weaknesses. One weakness is that it (by necessity) studies 6-inch-long traces in isolation. But traces are not all 6 inches long nor in isolation.

Avoid the ‘Ferrari Problem’ and Simplify Your PCB Design

11/16/2023 | Zach Peterson, NWES
When I last spoke with DirectPCB cofounder Greg Papandrew, he mentioned that many boards are designed like Ferraris when what the product really needs is a Ford Pinto. Those of us who work in PCB design education, whether on corporate training or on the conference scene, tend to teach new designers how to build Ferraris.
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